Dept.Profile : Department of Botany
Faculty
Highlights
Syllabus
 
 
Name and address of the Department:

Department of Botany
University College, Kakatiya University
Warangal – 506 009.
Telephone number:

0872-438001 Ext. 226
Fax : 0872-438800
 

The department of botany is established in the year 1968 with a built-up area of 18167 sq.ft in the university college campus and is currently headed by Prof.N.Pratap Reddy. The department have academic, administrative and financial autonomy.

The department is equipped with advance facilities such as Green House,Computing facilities – Internet, HPLC, GC, Phase contrast microscope, Stereo binocular microscope, PCR machine, Walking Chamber, UV Spectrophotometer, Orbital Shaking Incubator, Refrigerated centrifuge, Gene Gun, Gyratory Shaker, Laminar Air Flow Work Station etc.
 
The different programmes ( Level of Study = Certificate / Diploma / UG / PG Diploma / PG / M.Phil. / Ph.D. / Post Doctoral etc. ) offered by the department :
Programme

 Level of Study Cut-off MarksAt entry, in % Student Strength
B.Sc
 U.G. 36% 360
M.Sc P.G. 40% 126
M.Phil Research 50% 006
Ph.D Research 50% 030
 
The number of teaching and non-teaching staff of the department are:
  Male

 Female Total
No. of teachers with Ph.D. as the highest qualification
 15
 01 16
No. of teachers with M.Phil. as the highest qualification

 - - -
No. of Part-time teachers
06 01 07
No. of administrative staff
06 - 06
No. of technical staff 01 - 01
No. of class IV staff 03
 01
 04
 
About the department :

Books in the department library :

250
Journals/periodicals subscribed
by the department

05
Computers in the department 07
Ongoing research projects and
their total outlay		 08 - 81.63 lakhs
Research projects completed
during the last three years
and their total outlay 		10 - 90 lakhs
Teachers who have attended
national seminars during the
last three years :		 16
Teacher who have attended
international seminars during
the last three years		 -
 

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:

The major thrust areas within the subject in which research activities are being actively pursued are:

  • Plant Biotechnology;
  • Microbial Biotechnology;
  • Algal Biotechnology;
  • Environmental Biotechnology;
  • Plant Systematics and Ethonobotanical Studies;
  • Plant Tissue Culture;
  • Biodiversity