Books On Botany Of IAS Exam Are As Follows:


:: Botany ::

  • Cell Biology: De Robertis & Ambrose and Easy or Powar

  • Genetics: Strickberger or Vir Bala Rastogi

  • Physiology and Biochemistry: Salisbury and Ross or Fritz and Noggle

  • Ecology: Vir Bala Rastogi and M.S. Jayaraj and P.D. Singh

  • Economic Botany: Kochar or Verma

  • Microbiology: Powars's two books on microbiology are more than enough.

  • Pathology: Singh's book along with a foreign author

  • Cryptograms: B.R. Vasista (alage and fungi), P.C. Vashishta (Pteridophytes gymnosperms) Pandey and Trivedi (both volumes)

  • Embryology: Bhojwani and Bhatnagar

  • Plant Anatomy: Esau or B.P. Pandey

  • Taxonomy: Nair along with Datta