PhD Botany – LCWU – Lahore
Course Name: PhD Botany
Overview:
Our mission and vision is to train the youth to apply the basic botanical knowledge on broader prospects of agriculture and biotechnology. While teaching the students of all levels we will be focused to teach them:
1) Biotechnology
2) Environmental Biotechnology.
3) Ethno-botany
4) Fungal Biotechnology
5) Phytochemistry
6) Medicinal Plants
7) Microbiology
8) Mycology
9) Molecular Genetics
10) Molecular Taxonomy
11) Phytopathology
12) Plant Physiology
13) Plant Taxonomy
14) Plant Tissue Culture
15) Stress Physiology of Plants.
Number of Semesters: 2
Requirements
- Female candidates with minimum Eighteen years of education (MPhil/MS) or equivalent in the relevant field are eligible to apply.
- The candidate must have obtained 3.00/4.00 CGPA in semester system or 60% marks in annual system
- Qualifying GAT subject (60% Qualifying marks) is required to apply for admission in Ph.D program
- In special circumstances, if the GAT Subject test is not available in NTS subject list, then the candidates have to appear in the special subject test organized by the university and the qualifying marks will be 70%
- Entry test (50% Qualifying marks) and Interview organized by university is mandatory for admission in Ph.D Program
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Candidates working in Government/Semi Government institutions have to submit NOC from concerned organization.
Course Duration: N/A
How to apply:
http://www.lcwu.edu.pk/download-forms.html/
Curriculum:
Scheme of Study
Total Credit Hours: 48
List of Papers
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Title of courses |
Credit Hours |
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Essential of Microbiology |
3(3+0) |
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Basic concepts in Enzymology |
3(3+0) |
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Biotechnology: its Techniques and Applications |
3(3+0) |
|
Bioassay Techniques used in Plant studies |
3(3+0) |
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Biostatistics and Bioinformatics |
3(3+0) |
|
Molecular Advances in Phytosystematics |
3(3+0) |
|
Biotechnological Phytoremediation |
4(3+1) |
|
Plant Tissue Culture |
4(3+1) |
|
Commercial application of plant tissue culture |
4(3+1) |
|
Recent Trends in Ethno botany |
4(3+1) |
|
Project Planning , Monitoring and Evaluation |
3(3+0) |
|
Industrial Production of Secondary metabolites |
3(3+0) |
|
Laboratory Techniques –I |
3(3+0) |
|
Chemistry of Bio-Molecules |
3(3+0) |
|
Advances in Microbial Genetics |
3(3+0) |
|
Biotechnology |
3(3+0) |
|
Fermentation technology |
3(3+0) |
|
Medicinal Plants of Pakistan |
3(3+0) |
|
Research Reading |
3(3+0) |
|
Environmental Biotechnology |
3(3+0) |
|
Biosafety and Bioethics |
3(3+0) |
|
Botanical Techniques and Instrumentation |
4(2+2) |
|
Protein Purification |
3(3+0) |
|
Forensic Biology |
3(3+0) |
|
Recombinant DNA Technology |
3(3+0) |
|
Biochemistry of Plant Phenolic |
3(3+0) |
|
Bioactive principles of Medicinal Plants |
3(3+0) |
|
Principles and Techniques of Molecular Biology |
3(3+0) |
|
Plant Proteomics |
3(3+0) |
|
Plant Terpenoids |
3(3+0) |
|
Stress Physiology |
3(3+0) |
|
Fungal Biotechnology |
3(3+0) |
|
Phytochemistry |
3(3+0) |
|
Phytomedicine |
3(3+0) |
Laboratory Techniques –II Instrumental Botany Techniques and application in Biotechnology
Principles and Techniques of Microbiology Basic concepts in Enzymology, and techniques of protein and enzymes purifications