Books : Indian Forest Service Botany Books Reference List

1. Cell Biology: De Robertis & Ambrose and Easy or Powar

2. Genetics: Strickberger or Vir Bala Rastogi

3. Physiology and Biochemistry: Salisbury and Ross or Fritz and Noggle

4. Ecology: Vir Bala Rastogi and M.S. Jayaraj and P.D. Singh

5. Economic Botany: Kochar or Verma

6. Microbiology: Powars's two books on microbiology are more than enough.

7. Pathology: Singh's book along with a foreign author

8. Cryptograms: B.R. Vasista (alage and fungi), P.C. Vashishta (Pteridophytes gymnosperms) Pandey and Trivedi (both volumes)

9. Embryology: Bhojwani and Bhatnagar

10. Plant Anatomy: Esau or B.P. Pandey

11. Taxonomy: Nair along with Datta

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Lower Boiology (Algae, Fungi, Bryophyta, Pteridophyta, Gymnosperms): Singh, Pandey & Jain

Bacteria & Virus: H.C.Dubey

Microbiology: Taro & Kapoor

Plant Pathology: 1) P.D. Sharma – “Plant Pathology”; 2) R.S.Sharma – “Principles of Plant Pathology”

Economic Botany: 

• 1) B.P. Pandey – “Economic Botany”

• 2) Few topics from Kochar 

• Plant Taxonomy: O.P.Sharma

• Introduction to Botany (for Degree students): A.C.Dutta

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Cell Biology: 

• 1) “Cell Biology & Genetics” – P.K.Verma

• 2) Plant Physiology – Pandey & Sinha

• 3) Genetics – P.K.Gupta (for few topics)

Genetics:

• 1) B.D.Singh – Genetics

• 2) Pudan Singh – Introduction to Genetics

• 3) P.K.Gupta – Genetics

Plant Breeding: 

• 1) B.D.Singh

• 2)Pudan Singh

Biotechnology: 

• B.D. Singh

Plant Physiology

• 1) Pandey & Sinha

• 2) V.K. Jain

• 3)Taiz & Zeiger (Photosynthesis, Respiration & Stress Physiology)

Ecology: 

• P.D. Singh