Department of Botany

Program Outcome:

Understanding of Plant Diversity and its importance in the maintenance of ecological balance.
Students learn to carry out practical work, in the field and in the laboratory, interpreting plant morphology and anatomy, Plant identification, Vegetation analysis techniques.
Apply the knowledge of basic science, life sciences and fundamental process of plants.
Apply modern techniques and instruments for Biochemical estimation, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Plant Tissue culture experiments, cellular and physiological studies of plants with an understanding of the applications in human life.
Apply the knowledge gained from the studies for the upliftment of society via addressing health, environmental issues, food scarcity etc.

S.No.	Name of the Course (Paper)	Course Outcome
1.	Diversity of Lower Plants	The student will develop the understandings of structure, classification, infectious cycle and economic importance of microbes, algae and fungi.
2.	Diversity of Higher Plants	The student learns about gymnosperm, their classes and fossilization. The student also understands the anatomy of various tissue systems in higher plants.
3.	Taxonomy & Embryology of angiosperm	The student is familiarized to major classification systems of plant families and understand some common families and their economic importance in great details.
4.	Plant Ecology, Biodiversity and Phytogeography	The student learns about various types of ecosystems, their communication and various factors governing them. The biodiversity and their conservation methods are learnt along with major phytogeographical regions of country and state
5.	Plant Physiology and Biochemistry	The student understands the process of nutrients uptake and their deficiency diseases, role of phytohormones and process of photosynthesis along with synthesis and degradation of other plant metabolites.
6.	Cell Biology, Genetics Biotechnology and plant Biotechnology	The student understands the cell structure and cell cycle, pattern of Mendelian inheritance, linkage and basics of recombinant DNA technology and applications of Biotechnology with reference to plants

M.Sc.

Programme Outcomes

The M.Sc. - Botany curriculum is designed in a way to equip students with subject domain knowledge and all technical skills pertaining to plants lives and their role in a holistic manner. It aims to train the students in all the areas of plant sciences in combination of some interdisciplinary components with a unique combination of core and elective papers. This programme made students responsive about the social and environmental issues, significance of plants and their relevance to the national economy.

The programme opens up new dimensions for students to carry out their academic as well as scientific career in various eminent institutions and research labs. After pursuing this program, the student has vast career opportunities in fields of Plant Taxonomy, Weed Scientist, Ethnobotany, Plant Pathology, Plant Ecology as much as in Agricultural sector, pharmaceutical industries and Educational Institutes.

Programme Specific Outcomes

A student completing the post-graduation course in botany is exposed to its different branches such as systematics, reproductive and developmental biology, plant physiology, biochemistry and metabolism of plant products, plant interactions with environment, Synecology and Auto ecology, role of microbes in plant life, anatomy of plant tissues, cell biology and molecular biology of various life-forms.
They become competent in various analytical and technical skills related to extracting and analyzing primary and secondary plant metabolites, plant tissue culture, instrumentation studies, database search and utilizing bioinformatics tools in analysis, ecological survey and recombinant DNA technology, proteomics and transgenic technology in relation with plants.
The student completing the course is capable to perform short research projects using various tools and 5 techniques in plant sciences and develop scientific temperament and research attitude.

S.No.	Name of the Course	Course Outcome
1.	Biology &Diversity of Virus, Bacteria and Fungi	The paper deals with understanding characteristics of various bacterial classes, growth and culture of bacteria, viruses, infectious cycles, diseases and economic significance in human and plant lives.
2.	Biology &Diversity of Algae	The students will develop understanding about the diversity, identification, classification and economic importance of lower plants.
3.	Biology & Diversity of Bryophyta and Pteridophytes	The students develop the basic understanding of important characteristics, morphology, anatomy, reproduction, evolution along with economic importance in Pteridophytes.
4.	Biology & Diversity of Gymnosperms	The students develop the basic understanding of important characteristics, morphology, anatomy, reproduction, evolution along with economic importance in gymnosperm.
5.	Taxonomy of Angiosperms	The students will be learning about the various systems of classifications, systematic position of angiosperm, their genera, species and some economically important families and their features in great detail.

6.	Morphology, Anatomy and Embryology of Angiosperms	The students will be learning about the various angiosperm, their genera, species and some economically important families and their features in great detail.
7.	Plant Ecology	The course outcome is to develop the concepts and principles of ecology, biological diversity, conservation, sustainable development, population, community and ecosystem structure and function, application of these concepts and formulation of strategies for conservation and sustainable management under the given legislative measures.
8.	Cell Biology and Genetics	The course content provides a foundation in cellular and acellular entities of plants and animals, cell structure in relation to functions, eukaryotic genome structure (including nuclear and organellar), and regulatory mechanisms, cell cycle and their regulations.
9.	Plant Physiology	The course is designed to know the role of macronutrients and micronutrients in the soil and deficiencies caused by excess/low of these nutrients.To know the general process of photosynthesis in all the plants on the earth and know the efficient plant, as higher photosynthesis leads to higher productivity. To know the general metabolism in plants such as respiration, lipid biosynthesis and other key process such as nitrogen metabolism.
10	Biochemistry of Plants	This course enables the students about the various metabolic pathways leading to the formation of significant molecules in plants and their catabolism. The paper will enrich students with vital phenomenon of nitrogen metabolism in plants.
11	Molecular Biology of Plants	The course content provides a foundation in cellular and acellular entities of plants and animals, cell structure in relation to functions, eukaryotic genome structure (including nuclear and organellar), and regulatory mechanisms, cell cycle and their regulations.
12	Conservation and Utilization of Plant resources	Paper will help to understand different kinds of bioresources.It will help to understand the beginning of agriculture and its diversification and center of origin of different bioresources. As paper directly related with the various bioresources it will also make student aware about the different types of bioresources e.g. in service of mankind (as medicine, as fuel, as fodder, as timber, as fiber, as dye yielding plants, etc)
13	Biotechnology, Tissue culture and Genetic Engineering	The students will learn about concepts, tools and techniques related to in vitro propagation of plants and various case studies related to transgenic plant development techniques along with its applications and ethical issue related to it. The course also familiarize student with intellectual property rights and patent related issues.
14	Instrumentation, Biostatistics and Biotechniques	The course is an interdisciplinary one in which student learns data collection and its statistical analysis techniques, tools and techniques for analysing plant based biochemical and molecular products.
15	Ethnobotany/ industrial	The student is able to familiarize itself with a vast diversity

Microbiology

of medicinal plants of India and local tribes, their traditional usages, identification of their active products and their molecular mechanisms.

Limnology/ Applied Mycology/Forest Ecology/Environmental Biology and Pollution Ecology

Make students understand the diversity, structure and reproduction in the kingdom Fungi. To provide an insight to the students about the technique to isolate and identify fungi and maintain them in pure cultures. Study the diseases caused by biotic and abiotic agent in plants. Study the mechanism of disease development by pathogens.Understand the interaction between plant and

pathogen in relation to the overall environment.