This educational visit was conducted as part of the syllabus of B.Sc. Botany II year and final year students, for understanding the diverse plant groups and their conservation. Students were taken to garden to garden started visit at 10.100 am. A project fellow of research lab guided the students to lichen museum, bryophyte museum, fern house and carnivorous plants and observed the medicinal plant centre and aquatic plants. In the afternoon, the students got the opportunity to visit various research labs like, molecular biology lab, tissue culture lab and plant morphology and herbarium lab. It was followed by sessions on Hortus Malabaricus (the first book of medicinal plants and its history) and herbarium techniques of lower group of plants. The sessions were conducted by Scientists of the institute.
Students were amazed to see the unique nature of many plants, their growth pattern, and conservation methods. The travel was highly beneficial for enhancing their knowledge in the field of Plant science, to know the opportunities and scope of research in future and also to inculcate the habit of plant conservation as in the path of sustainable development.
