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| Faculty
of Agriculture |
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| DEPARTMENT
OF PLANT PATHALOGY |
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| Head
of the Department |
Dr.
Jitendra Singh |
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| Infrastructure
and facilities available in the department |
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The
department owns hundred year old building
constructed during British period covering
an area of 927 sq M. It embodies sitting
rooms, lecture theatres, laboratories,
equipments and computer labs, etc. [Lay-out
plan enclosed]
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| Building: |
The
department owns a British period building
which include 2 lecture theatres; 2 practical
room; seed pathology lab.; plant virology,
bacteriology and IPM lab. of chick wilt
with conference room and exhibition gallery
(under construction); one glasshouse (under
renovation); one jolly house; spawn production
lab. (Under construction); multimedia lab.;
computer lab.; bio-control lab.; Committee hall equipped with sound system and central instrument lab. (an
university facility)
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| Equipments: |
Basic
equipments include student microscopes,
sophisticated advanced compound and stereoscopic
microscopes with camera and CCTV, electronic
balance, Oven, BOD incubators, PCR, Gel
doc, ELISA reader, Gel electrophoresis,
pH meter, deep freeze (-20 degree Celsius),
OHP and slide projectors. LCD projector,
digital camera.
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| Books: |
Basic
plant pathological books are available
in the central Library as well as departmental
book club. The departmental book club is
regularly enriched with the books and journals
and bulletins donated by the retired faculty
members. It also caters the news papers
subscribed by the faculty members of the
department
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During
last four years sufficient infrastructure
has been developed besides the achievements
by the faculty member and the students
of the department as listed below:
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A
research laboratory equipped with aseptic
inoculation chamber, temperature controlled
incubation chamber fitted artificial
light, NUV light lamps, aseptic dust
proof room having recent stereoscopic
microscopes, compound microscope with
photographic and CCTV arrangements,
other instruments was established for
diagnosing the seed-borne pathogens in regular seed health testing programme during the 1995-96.
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Under
DST-FIST Level I funding I have been
able to establish
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A
computer lab with internet facilities
for the students and staff members
of the department during 2005. This
lab contains six computers, net work,
and printers.
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A
molecular lab equipped with gel electrophoresis,
PCR and stereoscopic microscope with
photographic arrangements
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Under
ICAR-IPM funded scheme the B.Sc.(Ag)
has been renovated and labs for the
production of NPV, Pseudomonas and
Trichoderma have been developed. A
provision for a training cum conference
hall equipped with the modern audio-visual
projections during 2006-07.
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Under
Macro-mode Yojana and Mega Seed Production
Schemes of U.P. Govt. and Government
of India respectively, spawn production
labs with equipments and mushroom production
room have been developed. This lab
has been generating fund by selling
the spawn of four species of mushroom.
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Setting
up of facilities for Hand on training
on ‘Production and Processing of mushroom’ and ‘Development of methodology of multimedia package for agriculture communication’ for UG students under ICAR funded scheme for experimental learning.
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