UNIVERSITY OF NORTH BENGAL
Since establishment in 1984, the department flourished with tireless efforts of faculties, staff and students. The course curriculum of the department has always been strong and forward looking. Syllabi have been revised regularly and the latest version was done with the introduction of semester system offering five special papers, namely Cytogenetics, Microbiology, Molecular Plant pathology and Fungal Biotechnology, Plant Biochemistry and Taxonomy of Angiosperms and Biosystematics.
One of the strong points of the department has been eminence in research. Late Professor Kalyan Bandhu Dutta was deeply interested in the study of human genetics and micropropagation of orchids. Professor Prabhat Kumar Basu was mainly engaged with the pharmacognosy and physiology of medicinal plants. Contribution in the area of food fermentation, quality and safety by Professor Prabir Kumar Sarkar is noteworthy. Professor Bishwanath Chakraborty has been working in the area of plant defence and immunodiagnostics. Professor Usha Chakraborty has been involved in the research on elucidation of biochemical mechanism of plants’ response to biotic and abiotic stress, as well as plant growth promotion through microbes. Professor Abhaya Prasad Das has done considerable work in the exploration and conservation of plant diversity, biosystematics, ethno-botany and medicinal plants. Dr. Aniruddha Saha has been involved in plant-microbe interaction. Dr. Arnab Sen is carrying forward plant tissue culture, molecular genetics, transgenics and bioinformatics. Mr. Palash Mandal is engaged in physiology and antioxidant biochemistry of plants. Dr. Subhas Chandra Roy is carrying out research in the areas of rice genomics. In recognition of the research outcome, the department is continuing Special Assistance Programme (SAP-DRS) of UGC since 2002 and DST- FIST.
The learners get research foundation for doctoral degree
Two year M.Sc. programme lays emphasis on understanding of the nature and basic concepts of cell biology, biochemistry, taxonomy and ecology. The learners will able to analyse the relationships among animals, plants & microbes and perform procedures as per laboratory standards.
The students get exposed to research ethics, ways to avoid plagiarism and all aspects of research methodology in concerned discipline.
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NBU Virtual Herbarium
University of North Bengal herbarium (NBU) stores around 12000 herbarium specimens, including Angiosperm, Gymnosperm and Pteridophytes. The herbarium is initially established in 1991 by the department of Botany, University of North Bengal. Recently in April, 2019 the Herbarium is upgraded along with modern facilities and shifted to a new separate building for easy access of in-house and global users. The acronym of this herbaria is NBU and the herbarium specimens are arranged as per APG IV. The Herbarium also contains a well oriented seed and fruit collections brought from various wilderness of India by different researchers, an organized pollen bank in the form of permanent slides of various angiosperms collected from different part of Himalaya, sub-Himalaya and plains of various agro-climatic zones of India.
PhytoResp: A database for medicinal plants of Darjeeling, against respiratory ailments
PhytoResp is a digital, manually curated database developed at the Department of Botany, University of North Bengal (NBU). The database has been created with the help of 200 published research articles and the eleven volumes of ‘Chiranjib Banousadhi’ series, written by Shibakali Bhattacharya. Here, we provide the names of 329 medicinal plants that are available in the Darjeeling district region of North Bengal and are traditionally used in the treatment of respiratory diseases. The list of reported plants is included, along with their parts used. They are known to cure 38 respiratory diseases. Among these, 113 plants have already been reported as a cure for COVID-19 (in silico or in vivo). Also, we have taken a step to evaluate the efficiency of the phytocompounds through in-silico methods.
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Support Staffs
Professor Molecular plant pathology & Fungal biotechnology
HoD
Professor Cytogenetics
Professor Cytogenetics & Biotechnology
Professor Plant Taxonomy and Biosystematics
Associate Professor Pteridology and Paleobotany
Assistant Professor Microbiology, Mycology and Plant Pathology
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Assistant Professor Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Head of the Department
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