Economic and Applied Botany (GATE XL) — Study Resources & PYQs
A general account of economically and medicinally important plants - cereals, pulses, plants yielding fibers, timber, sugar, beverages, oils, rubber, pigments, dyes, gums, drugs and narcotics; Economic importance of algae, fungi, lichen and bacteria; Major Indian cash crops; Effect of industrialization on agricultural botany such as plastic on fiber economy; Genetically modified crops and its regulation eg. Bt cotton, Bt brinjal, golden rice etc.; Chemical biology of phytochemicals; Postharvest processing of tea and essential oil-bearing plants.