Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding

The Department started independently from June’2019. The department offers various courses on Genetics & Plant Breeding along with Plant Biotechnology at Under Graduate (U.G.) and Post-graduate level. The M.Sc. (Ag.) programme in Genetics and Plant Breeding started from the academic session of 2015-16. Besides the U. G. and P. G. courses, the faculty members of the department are actively engaged in guiding students in research work, sometimes in collaboration with other research Institutes or Universities of national and international repute, leading to Ph. D. degree. The department is sincerely dedicated to make the students and scholars acquainted with modern research technology in different areas of biological sciences in general, and Genetics, Plant Breeding, Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics in particular. The faculty members conduct special and remedial classes exclusively for the purpose of JRF and guide final year B.Sc. (Ag.) Honours students and M.Sc. (Ag.) students for ICAR, JRF/SRF and similar other examinations. Some externally funded (BARC, ICAR, IFAD-ICARDA) research projects are being run by the department. Apart from the academic and research responsibilities, the department is actively involved in different extension activities and is in constant interaction with the farmers of the adjoining areas to make them aware of the latest technology in the area of crop improvement.

	Prof. (Dr.) Paresh Chandra Kole Professor and Head Mob. 9474413136 WA : 8388973692 Email:pareshchandra.kole@visva-bharati.ac.in; pckole@gmail.com View complete profile
	Prof. Amitava Paul Professor Mo. 9434197215 Email:amitava.paul@rediffmail.com ; amitava.paul@visva-bharati.ac.in View complete profile
	Dr. Nihar Ranjan Chakraborty Assistant Professor Mo. 9434559884 Email:nrchakraborty@gmail.com ; niharranjan.chakraborty@visva-bharati.ac.in View complete profile
	Dr. Sandip Debnath Assistant Professor Mo. 9476182361 Email:sandip22gene@yahoo.co.in; sandip.debnath@visva-bharati.ac.in View complete profile

S.No.	Title	UG/PG	Course No.	Credit
1.	Practical Manual on Principles of Plant Breeding	UG	GPB221	3(2+1)
2.	Practical Manual on Breeding of Field and Horticultural Crops	UG	GPB 321	3(2+1)
3.	Practical Manual on Principles of Plant Biotechnology	UG	GPB 311	3(2+1)
4.	Practical Manual on Bioinformatics	UG	ELBS 5/ GPB 321	3(2+1)
5.	Practical Manual on Principles of Cytogenetics	PG
6.	Practical Manual on Quantitative Genetics	PG	GPB 504	3(2+1)