Department of Botany

The aim of the Department of Botany is to promote an integrated understanding of utilization of plants in various disciplines to explore the underlying mechanisms for promoting friendly environment. Particular emphasis focusing on the application of biological knowledge to stimulating current advances in Plant Physiology, Molecular cloning, Microbial Biotechnology, food production and Environmental Sciences. Research and education in the Department are dedicated to developing high quality scientific results which could be exploited for the benefit of humanity. The Department strives at the best to boost consciousness in the scientific community as well as in society of the need for interaction and cooperation between socioeconomic and natural sciences both nationally and internationally.

The Department of Botany aims to nurture and flourish the research-based teaching with clear vision of future need of the society and Agro-economy of the country. The Department has a strong faculty of Plant Stress Physiology and Biotechnology. The modern molecular techniques with combination of traditional breeding methods are helpful to ensure the demands of farmers in the suburbs of the University of Gujrat particularly and the country in general. We are well aware of the industry-based objective to foster the socio-economic growth by providing the professionally well equipped botany graduates to the society.

The Department of Botany performs research work besides fulfilling the teaching commitments through counselling and guidance to shoulder the responsibility of becoming a first-rate useful segment of the society. We are committed to extending our potential to expand in a way that being a component of Institute of Biological Sciences, we make use of better resources and human resource under one roof. Many projects are in pipeline in collaboration with the laboratories of national as well as foreign universities. We have a broader vision to expand our BS (Hons) programme into MS and doctorate level. We offer a number of major and minor courses to students of various disciplines of BS and MS to provide the requisite knowledge-based learning.