Department of Botany, University of Lucknow

The Department of Botany was started in July 1921. Right from the beginning the Department had devotional patronage of luminary Professor Birbal Sahni, FRS, who had earlier briefly served at Banaras Hindu University.   The Department had well established and renowned units of Bryology, Phycology, Plant Breeding and Cytogenetics, Mycology and Plant Pathology, Plant Nutrition and  Plant Virology. The academic output of this Department has brought laurels, reputation and excellence. The rich traditions and strongly knitted academic fabric as laid down by Late Professor Sahni was nurtured further by his successors Professors S.N. Das Gupta, S.K. Pandey, A.R. Rao, G.S. Verma, S.C. Agarwala, B.S. Trivedi, B.N. Prasad, C.P. Sharma, N.K. Mehrotra, H.N. Verma, C. Chatterjee,  S.C. Srivastava, Dinesh Kumar, R.R. Singh, Y.K. Sharma, Seshu Lavania, Geeta Asthana, and Vivek Prasad, Nalini Pandey, Munna Singh and Gauri Saxena (Present Head).