Department of Plant Science

UGC-SAP and DST-FIST Sponsored Department

The Botany Department was established by the University in 1977 in the Autonomous Postgraduate Extension centre at Tiruchirapalli under the Leadership of Prof. K.Periasamy.. The Department became part of Bharathidasan University during 1981. Prof. Periasamy got retired and Prof.G.R.Rao took charge as the head in 1987. The Department was shifted to the Palkalaiperur campus about 15 K.M. from Tiruchirappalli town on Pudukkottai road during 1987.

With a view to offer high quality Post Graduate programmes and to carry out inter-disciplinary research in frontier areas, a School of Life Sciences in the existing Botany Department was visualized in 1989 and the same came into formal existence from 1993 with four Departments viz., Plant Science, Animal Science, Microbiology and Biotechnology carved out of the original Botany department. Prof. K.V.Krishanamurthy got retired during 2006 from Plant Science Department and Prof. N. Jayabalan took charge as Head of the Plant Science Department in July 2006.

The department has recently become a DST-FIST Sponsored Department.