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hi sir........am from b.sc(horticulture),i have decided to go for civil services! am in dialema to choose options for mains. as i dont have much knowledge about subjects that what to choose,criteria for choosing optionals,scoring subjects,advice of my friends,science subjects,etc.......such kind of questions are making me more confused in opting my optionals.......so pls kindly give me an advice regarding selection of options as a science student........

Suggested Botany Books for IAS

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

Pathology: Singh's book along with a foreign author

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

Embryology: Bhojwani and Bhatnagar

Plant Anatomy: Esau or B.P. Pandey

Taxonomy: Nair along with Datta

Cell Biology: De Robertis & Ambrose and Easy or Powar

Genetics: Strickberger or Vir Bala Rastogi

Physiology and Biochemistry: Salisbury and Ross or Fritz and Noggle

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

Economic Botany: Kochar or Verma

Hello Friend ,

[CENTER]Civil Services Books For Botany[/CENTER]

A text book of botany – Singh, Pandey, Jain
Systematic botany – R.K.Gupta
Algae – B.R. Vashista
Fungi – P.D.Sharma
Cell biology – P.S. Verma, V.K.Agarwal
Genetics - P.S. Verma, V.K.Agarwal
Molecular biology - P.S. Verma, V.K.Agarwal
Microbiology – K.P. Powar
Microbiology – Pelczar
Microbiology – Prescott
Genetics – B.D.Singh
Cytology – Esau
Plant anatomy - B.P. Pandey
Cytology, genetics and molecular biology – P.K.Gupta
Elements of biotechnology – P.K. Gupta
Outlines of biotechnology – Emkay publishers
Biotechnology – Dubey
Plant physiology – V.K.Jain
Plant physiology – P.S. Gill
Physiology and biochemistry – Salisbury, Ross
Physiology and biochemistry – Fritz, Noggle
Plant diversity and systematics – verma, singh, agarwal
Ancillary botany – Rao, Narayanasamy
Taxonomy and morphology – R.C.Dutta
Plant pathology – R.S.Singh
Plant pathology – Mehrotra
Plant pathology – Bilgrami
Plant pathology - B.P. Pandey
ICAR Handbook of agriculture
Plant breeding – B.D. Singh
Embryology – Bhojwani, Bhatnagar
Economic Botany – B.P. Pandey
Economic botany – S.L. Kochar
Economic botany – Sudhir Pradhan (1995)
A text book of Pharmacognosy – Kokate, Purohit, Gokhale
Ecology – V.B. Rastogi
Plant ecology – Shukla, Chandel
Environmental biology and toxicology – P.D. Sharma
Biodiversity conservation – P.C.Trivedi, K.C.Sharma (2003)
Evolution – T.K.Ranganathan
Plant-related articles from Yojana, Kurukshetra and other forestry related government schemes, bills, acts and laws.
IAS Botany material available online as pdf files
Competition refresher’s botany material
Brilliant tutorials botany material
Biology Special issue of civil service chronicle and Competition wizard
Botany material of TataMcGraw Hill GS Manual, Pearson, Spectrum
CSIR-NET – Life sciences material
Botany for pre-medical entrance exam
Plant quiz books
Previous year question papers (Q.Bank)

All The Best ....

These are some good books of botany..

Systematic botany – R.K.Gupta
Algae – B.R. Vashista
Fungi – P.D.Sharma
Cell biology – P.S. Verma, V.K.Agarwal
Genetics - P.S. Verma, V.K.Agarwal
Molecular biology - P.S. Verma, V.K.Agarwal
Microbiology – K.P. Powar
Microbiology – Pelczar
Microbiology – Prescott
Genetics – B.D.Singh
Cytology – Esau
Plant anatomy - B.P. Pandey

Thanks...

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suggest me a best book for msc botany entrance exam

Dear friend the list of some best and good books of mains Botany are:-

- Genetics – B.D.Singh

- Cytology – Esau

- Plant anatomy - B.P. Pandey

- Systematic botany – R.K.Gupta

- Algae – B.R. Vashista

- Fungi – P.D.Sharma

- Cell biology – P.S. Verma, V.K.Agarwal

- Genetics - P.S. Verma, V.K.Agarwal

- Molecular biology - P.S. Verma, V.K.Agarwal

- Microbiology – K.P. Powar

- Microbiology – Pelczar

- Microbiology – Prescott


All the best............

Hi Friend...............

Suggested Books for Mains Botony

A text book of botany – Singh, Pandey, Jain
Systematic botany – R.K.Gupta
Algae – B.R. Vashista
Fungi – P.D.Sharma
Cell biology – P.S. Verma, V.K.Agarwal
Genetics - P.S. Verma, V.K.Agarwal
Molecular biology - P.S. Verma, V.K.Agarwal
Microbiology – K.P. Powar
Microbiology – Pelczar
Microbiology – Prescott
Genetics – B.D.Singh
Cytology – Esau
Plant anatomy - B.P. Pandey
Cytology, genetics and molecular biology – P.K.Gupta