Botany Optional Booklist – For UPSC-IAS Mains Examination.

Botany is one of the optional subjects that the UPSC offers candidates in the mains exam. Not many candidates opt for it as it is a specialized subject.Continue Reading Botany Optional Booklist – For UPSC-IAS Mains Examination.

However, there have been a few toppers who had taken this optional subject.Botany is one of the optional subjects that the UPSC offers candidates in the mains exam. Not many candidates opt for it as it is a specialized subject.

  1. Evolution Botany Notes
  2. Cell Biology: De Robertis & Ambrose and Easy or Powar
  3. Genetics: Strickberger or Vir Bala Rastogi
  4. Physiology and Biochemistry: Salisbury and Ross or Fritz and Noggle
  5. Ecology: Vir Bala Rastogi and M.S. Jayaraj and P.D. Singh
  6. Microbiology: Powers’s two books on microbiology are more than enough.
  7. Economic Botany: Kochar or Verma
  8. Pathology: Singh’s book along with a foreign author
  9. Embryology: Bhojwani and Bhatnagar

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

  11. Genetics: Strickberger or Vir Bala Rastogi

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

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

  14. Economic Botany: Kochar or Verma

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

  16. Pathology: Singh’s book along with a foreign author

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

  18. Embryology: Bhojwani and Bhatnagar

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

  20. Taxonomy: Nair along with Datta

 

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