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Agriculture & ForestryForestry Research ICFRE
Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education
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- Agriculture & Forestry
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आयोजक संस्था
Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education
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Scientist positions in forestry research
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सभी 10 विषय और 96 अध्याय शामिल हैं — कुल 1,759 टॉपिक में से 420 यहाँ दिखाए गए हैं।कुछ भी हटाया नहीं गया है। हर विषय में उसकी पूरी टॉपिक सूची का लिंक मौजूद है।
Botany
Cryptogams
- Algae
- Fungi
- Bryophytes
- Pteridophytes - structure and reproduction from evolutonary viewpoint
Phanerogams
- Gymnosperms
- Concept of Progymonosperms
- Classification and distribution of Gymnosperms
- Salient features of Cycadales
Angiosperm
- Plants morphology, Inflorescences, Botanical Nomenclature- Salient Features of the International Code of Nomenclature (ICN), Principles, Type method, author citation, Publication of names, rejection of names
- Basionym
- synonym
- tautonym etc. Principle of priority
Plant Anatomy
- Basic structure and function of plant cells
- Parenchyma
- Collenchyma
- Sclerenchyma
Microbiology and Plant Pathology
- Viruses
- bacteria
- and plasmids-structure and reproduction
- Phyto-immunology
Plant Utility and Exploitation
- Origin of cultivated plants
- Vavilov's centres of origin
- Plants as sources for timber
- food
Morphogenesis
- Totipotency
- polarity
- symmetry and differentiation
- Cell
Cell Biology
- Techniques of Cell Biology
- Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells -structural and ultrastructural details
- Structure and function of extracellular matrix or ECM (cell wall) and membranes-cell adhesion, membrane and vesicular transport
- Structure and function of cell organelles
Genetics, Molecular Biology and Evolution
- Development of genetics
- gene versus allele concepts (Pseudoalleles)
- Quantitative genetics and multiple factors
- Linkage and crossing over
Plant Breeding, Biotechnology and Biostatistics
- Methods of plant breeding -- introduction
- selection and hybridization (pedigree, backcross, mass selection, bulk method)
- Male sterility and heterosis breeding
- Use of apomixis in plant breeding
Physiology and Biochemistry
- Water relations
- Mineral nutrition and ion transport
- mineral deficiencies
- Photosynthesis
Ecology and Plant Geography
- Ecological factors
- Concepts and dynamics of community
- Plant succession
- Concepts of biosphere
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Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
- Organic Nomenclature
- IUPAC nomenclature of organic molecules including regio- and stereoisomers
- Stereochemistry
- Principles, chirality of organic molecules with or without chiral centres and determination of their absolute configurations, configurational and conformational isomerism in acyclic and cyclic compounds
Inorganic Chemistry
- Chemical periodicity
- Basic concept of periodicity
- periodic properties of s
- d- and f-block elements
Physical Chemistry
- Quantum mechanics
- Basic principles
- operator algebra
- exactlysolvable systems
Recent and Applied Chemistry
- General concepts and applications
- Environmental and Green chemistry
- Nanaotechnology in chemistry
- Medicinal chemistry
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Entomology
Insect Biodiversity and Biosystematics
- Evolution of insects
- introduction to class Insecta and its position in phylum Arthropoda
- history of insect classification
- phylogeny
Commercial Entomology and other beneficial insects
- Apiculture
- Lac culture
- Sericulture
- Pollinators
Insects and climate change
Ecological indicators of forest health
Bioinformatics
Insect Morphology
- Insect body structure
- cuticular outgrowths
- colouration and special integumentary structures in insects
- body tagmata
Insect Physiology and Anatomy
- Scope and importance of insect anatomy and physiology
- anatomy and physiology of digestive
- excretory
- respiratory
Insect Ecology
- Concept of ecology, environment and its components-biotic and abiotic factors and their effects on growth, development, population dynamics, distribution and dispersal
- Principle of biogeography and insects biodiversity
- Biotic potential and environmental resistance
- Ecosystems
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
- History
- principles and concepts of IPM
- ecological and socioeconomic aspects
- concept of injury level
Host Plant Resistance
- Chemical ecology
- mechano and chemo receptors
- Insect plant interactions
- mechanism of host plant selection by insects
Biological Control of Insect Pests
- Importance, scope, components and concepts of biological control, history of biological control: Important entomophagous insect orders and families
- Evaluation and application of bio-control agents against insect pests for forest tree species
- Principles and procedures of using exotic biocontrol agents
- Mass multiplication techniques
Chemical Control and Toxicology
- History
- scope and principles of chemical control
- Classification of insecticides
- formulations
Insect Pests and their Management
- Classification of forest insect pests
- type of damages and symptoms
- Factors for outbreak of pests in plantation and natural forest
- Distribution
Recent Trends in Entomology
- Molecular insect systematic and taxonomy
- genetic improvement and insect gene transformation of natural enemies
- and Relative insect resistance in plant species
- Genetic engineering in baculoviruses
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Forest Ecology & Environment Management
Fundamentals of Ecology
- Introduction
- Definition
- evolutionary/historical background
- principle and scope
Ecosystem Analysis
- Major ecosystems
- Concept of Biosphere and ecosystem
- evaluation of ecosystem
- major biomes & biogeographic regions of India and world
Forest Ecology
- Forest types of India
- structure and biota
- mycorrrhizae and forests
- forests and forestry in India
Conservation Ecology
- Introduction
- Definition of conservation
- postulates of conservation biology
- the origin and evolution of living organisms
Restoration Ecology
- Introduction
- Definition
- aims and objectives of restoration
- principles
Pollution and Climatic Change
- Air
- water
- soil and noise pollution
- bioremediation
इस विषय के 120 टॉपिक में से 24 दिखाए गए हैं।सभी 120 टॉपिक देखें →
Forest Economics
Basics of Forest Economics and associated quantitative methods
- Micro and macroeconomics
- Relevance of economics to forestry sector
- Definition of Forest Industry Economics and Forest Management Economics
- How Forest Economics is different from normal economics? Economic indicators of contribution of forestry to GDP of a country
Production Forestry
- Concept of Production Functions (Single and Multiple Input cases)
- their characteristics and forms
- Production Possibility Curve
- Production theory as applied to forestry
Markets and firms
- Definition of Market
- Role of markets in forestry sector
- Forms and types of markets - Perfect Competition
- Imperfect competition - Monopoly
Non-Timber Forest Products and Forest Valuation, Forest Resource Economics
- Forest based ecosystem services
- Direct
- indirect
- use and non-use values
Applications of Forest Economics
- Sources of revenue
- Risk and Uncertainty
- Treatment of time horizons
- Concept of Rotation
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Forestry
Silviculture
- Forest ecosystem
- classification of world’s forest vegetation
- productivity and vegetation forms of India
- forest composition
Agroforestry
- History in India
- potential and scope
- systems of the world and India
- National Agroforestry Policy
Forest Biometry
- Measurement of tree parameters
- modern tools and techniques
- estimation of volume
- growth and yield
Forest Management
- Principles
- scope and object
- ecosystem management
- development of forest management in India
Forest Products and Forest Industries
- forest based industries
- importance
- chemistry of forest products
- cell wall constituents
Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation
- forest ecology
- forest productivity
- ecology of forest landscapes
- spatial heterogeneity
Forest Resource Management and Economics
- economics in forest management
- application of micro and macro-economics
- demand and supply
- marketing
Forest Protection
- Important diseases and insect pests and their management
- assessment of losses
- vertebrate pests
- adverse weather
Forest Policy And Laws And International Conventions
- National Forest Policies
- principles of criminal law
- Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS)
- Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS)
Reproductive Biology and Tree Improvement
- Reproductive Biology
- artificial vegetative propagation
- special modes of reproduction
- mating system dynamics
Forests And People
- Forests and its importance
- forest societies
- interactions with people
- social and cultural factors
Plantation Forestry
- Role of plantation forestry
- plantation forestry in India and abroad
- factors determining scale and rate
- land suitability
Environmental Conservation
- Environmental degradation
- pollution
- environmental conservation
- environment impact assessment
Statistics (Research Methodology)
- Statistics
- definition
- object and scope
- frequency distribution
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Genetics
SECTION A: FOREST GENETICS
- Basic principles
- Introduction to forest genetics
- tree breeding and its applications
- Inheritance of genetic information
SECTION B: FOREST TREE BREEDING
- Techniques of tree breeding
- Self- and cross-pollinated tree species
- natives and exotics with their origin and distribution
- Definition and scope of tree breeding
SECTION C: APPLIED TREE IMPROVEMENT
- Species and provenance testing
- plus trees and their selection methods
- progeny testing and identification of elite trees
SECTION D: STATISTICAL METHODS AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS
- Frequency distribution
- measures of central tendency
- probability theory and its application in genetics
इस विषय के 167 टॉपिक में से 14 दिखाए गए हैं।सभी 167 टॉपिक देखें →
Hydrology
Introduction
- Hydrological cycle
- components of hydrologic cycle
- storage
Atmospheric Water System and climate
- Characteristics of Atmosphere
- Atmospheric circulation patterns
- weather systems
Precipitation
- Precipitation types
- measurements
- analysis
Hydrologic Abstractions
- Interception and depression storage
- Evaporation
- Evaporation processes
Hydrometry
- Gauge and discharge sites
- site suitability
- river stage
Runoff
- Factor affecting
- runoff characteristics of stream
- impact of forest type and forest cover on runoff
Frequency Analysis
- Random variables
- Probability distribution functions
- normal
Groundwater
- Types of aquifers
- ground water recharge
- Darcy’s Law
Soil and water conservation
- Basics of soil and water conservation
- suitability & site selection for different types of water conservation measure
- Planning and design of Water conservation and rainwater harvesting measures
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Pathology
History
- Historical perspectives of forest/plant diseases
- Major epidemics and their social impacts
- Key contributors
Concept of tree disease
- What is a disease
- Causes of diseases
- Classification of diseases
Pathogens
- Fungi
- oomycetes
- bacteria
Abiotic disorders
Disease diagnoses
- Symptoms and signs
- Microscopy and micrometry
- Molecular tools in pathogen detection including serology (ELISA) and DNA-based tools (DNA barcoding, LAMP, Next Generation Sequencing, etc)
Disease epidemiology
- Disease cycles (monocyclic vs. polycyclic)
- Environmental influences (including climate change leading to shifts in pathogen distribution and increased susceptibility due to stress
- Vector (insects, human activities, etc.)
Disease resistance and host defence mechanisms
- Structural
- biochemical and genetic resistance
- Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) and induced systemic resistance (ISR)
Forest disease management
- Principles of disease management
- Cultural (silvicultural practices, sanitation, etc.)
- Chemical (fungicides, antibiotics, etc.)
Seed diseases
- Internal and external seed borne diseases
- for eg
- seed rot fungi (Aspergillus, Penicillium, etc.)
Nursery diseases
- Damping off (Pythium, Phytophthora, Rhizoctonia, Fusarium, etc.)
- Leaf spot and blight (Alternaria, Colletotrichum spp.)
- Powdery mildew (Erysiphe, Podosphaera, Golovinomyces, etc.)
Foliar diseases
- Powdery and downy mildew
- Leaf spot and blight
- Rust
Stem and bark diseases
- Canker
- Heart rot (Ganoderma, Fomes, etc.)
- Stem canker (Botryosphaeria, Nectria, Cryphonectria parasitica, etc.)
Root diseases
- Root rots- (Ganoderma., Armillaria mellea, Phytophthora, etc.)
- Root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.)
- Pine wilt nematode
Rot, decay and stain
- White root rot (Rigidoporus microporus)
- Brown cubical rot (Laetiporus sulphureus)
- bacterial soft rot
Emerging diseases
- Neem dieback
- Poplar dieback
- Sudden Oak Death (Phytophthora ramorum)
Tools in forest pathology
- Bioinformatics
- PCR
- qRT PCR
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Soil Science
Definition and concept of soil
- weathering and soil formation
- soil profile development
- features of a typical soil profile
- Composition of earth crust and its relationship with soils
- Rocks
- minerals and other soil forming materials
- Weathering of rocks and minerals
- Factors of soil formation
- Pedogenic processes and their relationships with soil properties
- Soil development
- Pedon
- polypedon
- soil profile
- horizons and their nomenclature
- Soil Taxonomy - epipedons
- diagnostic subsurface horizons and other diagnostic characteristics
- soil moisture and temperature regimes
- categories and criteria for soil classification systems
- Forest Soils properties and their classification
- Role of forest in soil formation
- soil fertility and nutrient cycling
- Impact of forest management on soil properties
- Interaction of humans with forest ecosystems in the interest of sustainable management of forest soil
Mineralogical properties of soil
- important primary and secondary minerals and their influence on soil behavior
Physical properties of soil
- texture
- structure
- density
- temperature
- colour
- consistency
- air
- Soil: water phenomenon-retention and release of moisture
- water holding capacity
- field capacity
- wilting point
- available water capacity
- management of soil moisture for optimizing plant growth
- methods of measurement of soil moisture
Chemical properties of soil
- formation of organic and inorganic soil colloids
- types of clay minerals
- clay : humus complex
- soil pH
- cation and anion exchange capacity
- role of clay
- availability of nutrient ions to plants
- dynamic ion exchange equilibrium and sustainable nutrient uptake by plant
- soil pH in relation to nutrient availability
- optimum soil pH for availability of most nutrients
- management/reclamation of acid soil
- saline soil
- sodic soil
- sick soil
Biological properties of soil
- Role of macro- and micro organisms and their influence on soil conditions
- important microflora involved in mineralization of nutrient elements
- biological nitrogen fixation and role of associated microbes (for both symbiotic and non-symbiotic processes)
- role of mycorhhiza in mineralization of nutrients in degraded soil
- decomposition of organic matter
- C:N ratio and state of decomposition
- humus
- terms associated with mineralization
- immobilization
- nitrification and nitrogen losses
- role of organic matter in improving soil behavior especially in organic farming
Concept of chemical analysis
- Solution reactions
- titrimetric analysis
- concept of standard solution
- Indicators: theory and applications
- Methods of soil analysis - particle size distribution, bulk and Particle density, moisture constants, Modern methods of soil, plant and fertilizer analysis Flame photometry and inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy
- Spectrophotometry - visible
- ultra-violet and infrared
- Atomic absorption spectrophotometry
- Potentiometry and conductimetry
- X-ray diffractometry
- Mass spectrometry
- Geiger Muller counter
- solid and liquids scintillation counters
Mineral nutrition
- essential nutrient elements for plant growth as per Arnon's essentiality criteria, Macro- and micro-nutrients and their role in plant growth and development, deficiency symptoms, nutrient deficiency induced plant ailments such as khaira disease of rice, heart rots in fruits and vegetables, Lime induced iron chlorosis, major organic and inorganic sources of nutrients for environment friendly biomass production cultures
- soil fertility, management of soil fertility for sustainable yields under different climatic conditions, poly houses, minimum tillage cultures
- permaculture
- assessment/evaluation of soil fertility for optimum/balanced use of nutrients
- methods of soil analysis
- soil testing
- importance of soil health card in evolving best practices for different land uses
- Soil erosion
- runoff loses
- land degradation
- watershed management
- Soil pollution
- nature and extent
- preventive measures
- management alternatives
Soil fertility evaluation
- soil testing
- plant and tissue tests and biological methods
- Common soil test methods for fertilizer recommendation
- Soil test-crop response correlations
- Integrated nutrient management
- Use of isotopic tracers in soil research
- Nature
- properties and development of acid
- acid sulphate
- saline and alkali and their management
- Lime and gypsum requirements of soils
- lime potential
- Irrigation water quality - EC
- SAR
- RSC and specifications
- Fertility status of major soil groups of India
- Concept and application of soil health and soil quality
Application of statistics for experimental designs
- analysis of variance
- correlations for data interpretations
Soil survey and classification
- Types of soil survey
- basis for selection of suitable method of survey
- soil classification
- important soil orders
- importance of modern nomenclature for understanding nature of soil behavior
- Study of base maps
- cadastral maps
- toposheets
- aerial photographs and satellite imageries
- Use of geographical information system for preparing thematic maps
Organic and inorganic fertilizers
- Soil erosion
- types and causes of erosion
- conservation measures and watershed management
Major constraints of Indian soils for raising biomass productivity and measures for improvement
- role of soil in mitigating impact of GHGs
- climate change leading to global warming
- soil as a source/ sink for carbon and carbon cycle
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Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Dehradun, under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
| Post | Approximate Number Of Posts | Category Breakup | Pay Level | Disciplines | Place Of Posting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scientist-B | 25 | UR-10, EWS-04, SC-04, OBC-06, ST-01 | Candidates declared successful for the post of Scientist-B will be recommended for appointment in the level 10 (7th CPC) of the Pay Matrix, Rs. 56,100 - 1,77,500, plus allowances as admissible under the rules and orders of ICFRE. | Hydrology, Pathology, Chemistry, Soil Science, Forest Economics, Botany, Forestry, Forest Ecology & Environment Management, Entomology and Genetics. | Any of the Institutes or Centres of the Council at Dehradun, Jabalpur, Jodhpur, Coimbatore, Bengaluru, Jorhat, Shimla, Ranchi, Hyderabad, Prayagraj, Chhindwara, Agartala, Aizwal and Vishakapatnam, with liability to serve at any Institute or Centre under ICFRE within India. |
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