Department Of Botany
Research Area

 

Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies

Sr. No.

Name of the Program

Funding agencies

Thrust Areas

  1.  

DRS SAP I

UGC

Biodiversity and Bio-resources of Western Ghats and Coastal Areas.

2

DRS SAP II

UGC

Biodiversity and bioprospecting of plant resources of Western Ghats and coastal regions.

3

FIST

DST

To improve infrastructure in Department

4

DST PURSE

DST

To improve infrastructure in University.

 

5

Lead garden

MoEF

To develop Botanical garden of Shivaji University as a Lead Garden of Western region

6

NAIP

NAIP

Recovery of RET species

Genetic improvement

7

Medicinal Plants

RGSTC

Digittised  Inventory of  Medicinal Plants

8

IPLS

DBT

  1. Micropropagation of RET and medicinal plants,
  2.  Bioprospecting of available indigenous resources, Molecular Diagnosis of available resources
  3. Biodiversity, bioprospecting  and molecular diagnosing of indigenous resources from Western Ghats.
  4. Molecular diagnosis using genetic marker system.
  5. Micropropagation of RET Species and medicinal plants.
  6. Diversity and bar coding of fish fauna of Western Ghats.
  7. Biotransformation mechanism for the sysnthesis of phytochemicals and molecular docking studies for enzyme ligand interactions.
  8. Phytoremediation of industrial dye effluents; development of bioreactor for the textile industrial waste.
  9. Agro-industrial waste management for the production of the micronutrients
  10. Use of press mud in various biological activities.
  11. Soil conditioning using microflora.
  12. Dissemination of Tasar and Fish culture.

9

ENVIS

Maharashtra Govt.

Conservation  of  mangroves, Indian Palms and RET species using conventional and biotechnological tools

10

Vasumitra

Vasumitra Life Energies  Pvt Ltd Pune

Assessment of effect of herbal products

Evaluation and standardization of organic fertilizers.


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