About the Department:

Department of Botany was established in the year 1924 and later became full-fledged department with PG (1934) and Ph.D. courses (1951). The department has excellent infrastructure facilities and expert staff members in different fields of Plant Sciences.

In view of its outstanding research contribution, the Department of Botany is credited with Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) under Special Assistance Programme (SAP), infrastructure grant from UGC, DST- FIST (Funds for Infrastructure in Science and Technology) and also participated in DBT- ISLARE Programmers. The department also received research grants form UGC, CSIR, DBT, DST, MOEF, DST-PURSE etc.

To-date more than 600 students have successfully completed their doctoral (Ph.D) programmers and over 3000 research papers in diversified aspects of Botany have been published by the teaching staff and research scholars of the Department in various reputed National and International journals.

Several faculty members received awards of National and International recognition and fellows of various academic and Scientific bodies. The faculty members have bagged a total of 25 National and International Awards. Around 110 research projects were successfully completed, funded by various agencies. In recognition of their research work, the faculty were granted with three patents and 3 more in pipeline.

As on today the Department has organized 21 International Conferences, 45 National Conferences, 10 national workshops and 75 Endowment Lectures has been delivered so for in the department. Around 80 Books and 200 book chapters have been published in different areas of Botany.

COURSES OFFERED:

The department is offering PG course in Botany in main campus, constituent and affiliated colleges of Osmania University. Keeping pace with advanced knowledge, the department has updated the curriculum and introduced the Choice Based Credit System. The department is also having full-fledged Ph.Dprogramme in various fields of Plant Sciences.

The Department has started M.Sc. Environmental Science as self-finance course at Osmania University. Presently, it is a Nodal department of the Environmental Science course.