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I. Course Title
: Economic Botany *
II. Course Code
: PGR 505
III. Credit Hours
: 3(2+1)
IV. Why this course ?
To study the relationship between people and plants including anthropology, botany
and use.
V. Aim of the course
The student will learn concept of economic botany and relationship between human
and plants including cultivation and economic uses in everyday life.

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VI. Theory
Unit I
Introduction to economic botany, Origin of agriculture, domestication and
adaptations of cultivated plants, classification into crop groups, reproductive systems
and breeding behaviour of crop plants.
Unit II
Origin, evolution, botany, cultivation, use, genetic resource management and
utilization of important crops, viz.,
 
cereals, pseudo-cereals, millets, legumes, forage
and fodder crops, oil yielding plants, fibre yielding plants, under-utilized and under-
exploited plants, new and potential crops, processing and use of crop residues.
Unit III
Important taxa in horticulture, floriculture and agro-forestry. Origin, evolution,
botany, cultivation, use, genetic resource management and utilization of genetic
diversity of important crops, viz., vegetable crops, fruits and nuts, medicinal and
aromatic plants, spices and condiments, beverages, fumitory and masticatory plants,
rubber yielding plants, wood and timber yielding taxa, cellulose, starch and sugar
yielding plants, insecticidal and herbicidal plants, important taxa in agro-forestry,
flavouring agents, gums and resins.
VII. Practical
• Botanical microtechniques for the study of structure, development and biochemical
status of plant parts;
• Identification of economically important plant parts in different groups of plants-
oil yielding plants, cereals, millets, legumes, spices, condiments, woods, timber
and industrial crops, medicinal and aromatic plants and fumitory, masticatory
plants;
• Structure of economic plant parts-root, stem, leaves, fruits, seeds, recognizing the
grains;
• Case studies on adaptations during domestication;
• Histochemical localization of chemical constituents in economically important plant
parts e.g. starch-sugars, Proteins-lipids; and studies on sugar, starch, cellulose,
fibers, gums, rubber and resins;
• Visit to Museum of economic products in other Institutes, visit to industrial units
processing the economic products.