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Agriculture & ForestryForestry Research ICFRE
Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education
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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
Phanerogams
- Gymnosperms
- Concept of Progymonosperms
- Classification and distribution of Gymnosperms
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
Plant Anatomy
- Basic structure and function of plant cells
- Parenchyma
- Collenchyma
Microbiology and Plant Pathology
- Viruses
- bacteria
- and plasmids-structure and reproduction
Plant Utility and Exploitation
- Origin of cultivated plants
- Vavilov's centres of origin
- Plants as sources for timber
Morphogenesis
- Totipotency
- polarity
- symmetry and differentiation
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
Genetics, Molecular Biology and Evolution
- Development of genetics
- gene versus allele concepts (Pseudoalleles)
- Quantitative genetics and multiple factors
Plant Breeding, Biotechnology and Biostatistics
- Methods of plant breeding -- introduction
- selection and hybridization (pedigree, backcross, mass selection, bulk method)
- Male sterility and heterosis breeding
Physiology and Biochemistry
- Water relations
- Mineral nutrition and ion transport
- mineral deficiencies
Ecology and Plant Geography
- Ecological factors
- Concepts and dynamics of community
- Plant succession
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Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
- Organic Nomenclature
- IUPAC nomenclature of organic molecules including regio- and stereoisomers
- Stereochemistry
Inorganic Chemistry
- Chemical periodicity
- Basic concept of periodicity
- periodic properties of s
Physical Chemistry
- Quantum mechanics
- Basic principles
- operator algebra
Recent and Applied Chemistry
- General concepts and applications
- Environmental and Green chemistry
- Nanaotechnology in 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
Commercial Entomology and other beneficial insects
- Apiculture
- Lac culture
- Sericulture
Insects and climate change
Ecological indicators of forest health
Bioinformatics
Insect Morphology
- Insect body structure
- cuticular outgrowths
- colouration and special integumentary structures in insects
Insect Physiology and Anatomy
- Scope and importance of insect anatomy and physiology
- anatomy and physiology of digestive
- excretory
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
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
- History
- principles and concepts of IPM
- ecological and socioeconomic aspects
Host Plant Resistance
- Chemical ecology
- mechano and chemo receptors
- Insect plant interactions
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
Chemical Control and Toxicology
- History
- scope and principles of chemical control
- Classification of insecticides
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
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
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Forest Ecology & Environment Management
Fundamentals of Ecology
- Introduction
- Definition
- evolutionary/historical background
Ecosystem Analysis
- Major ecosystems
- Concept of Biosphere and ecosystem
- evaluation of ecosystem
Forest Ecology
- Forest types of India
- structure and biota
- mycorrrhizae and forests
Conservation Ecology
- Introduction
- Definition of conservation
- postulates of conservation biology
Restoration Ecology
- Introduction
- Definition
- aims and objectives of restoration
Pollution and Climatic Change
- Air
- water
- soil and noise pollution
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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
Production Forestry
- Concept of Production Functions (Single and Multiple Input cases)
- their characteristics and forms
- Production Possibility Curve
Markets and firms
- Definition of Market
- Role of markets in forestry sector
- Forms and types of markets - Perfect Competition
Non-Timber Forest Products and Forest Valuation, Forest Resource Economics
- Forest based ecosystem services
- Direct
- indirect
Applications of Forest Economics
- Sources of revenue
- Risk and Uncertainty
- Treatment of time horizons
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Forestry
Silviculture
- Forest ecosystem
- classification of world’s forest vegetation
- productivity and vegetation forms of India
Agroforestry
- History in India
- potential and scope
- systems of the world and India
Forest Biometry
- Measurement of tree parameters
- modern tools and techniques
- estimation of volume
Forest Management
- Principles
- scope and object
- ecosystem management
Forest Products and Forest Industries
- forest based industries
- importance
- chemistry of forest products
Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation
- forest ecology
- forest productivity
- ecology of forest landscapes
Forest Resource Management and Economics
- economics in forest management
- application of micro and macro-economics
- demand and supply
Forest Protection
- Important diseases and insect pests and their management
- assessment of losses
- vertebrate pests
Forest Policy And Laws And International Conventions
- National Forest Policies
- principles of criminal law
- Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS)
Reproductive Biology and Tree Improvement
- Reproductive Biology
- artificial vegetative propagation
- special modes of reproduction
Forests And People
- Forests and its importance
- forest societies
- interactions with people
Plantation Forestry
- Role of plantation forestry
- plantation forestry in India and abroad
- factors determining scale and rate
Environmental Conservation
- Environmental degradation
- pollution
- environmental conservation
Statistics (Research Methodology)
- Statistics
- definition
- object and scope
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Genetics
SECTION A: FOREST GENETICS
- Basic principles
- Introduction to forest genetics
- tree breeding and its applications
- Inheritance of genetic information
- Cell division
- regulation of cell cycle
- sexual reproduction and Mendelian genetics
- Chromosomes
- chromosomal structure
- extra chromosomal inheritance
- Variation
- causes and kinds of variation
- variation in natural and artificial stands
- forces that shape variation
- uses of variation
- Estimates of variance components and covariance among relatives
- Population Genetics
- Gene frequencies
- Hardy-Weinberg law
- evolution and migration
- Wahlund effect
- Evolutionary Genetics
- Natural selection
- mutation
- genetic drift
- gene flow
- speciation
- Quantitative Genetics
- Heritability- broad and narrow sense
- selection differential
- selection intensity
- response to selection
- genetic gain and combining ability and their application
- Genotype x environment interaction and stability of performance
- Genetic correlation
- Multiple factor inheritance
- Linkage disequilibrium
- genetic load
- Mating system and mating design
- Juvenile mature correlations
- Conservation Genetics
- Objectives in gene conservation
- Landscape genetics
- Genetic markers- morphological
- biochemical and molecular markers and their structure
- In situ and ex situ gene conservation
- applications in forest conservation and tree improvement
- Molecular markers
- PCR and non PCR based
- Cryopreservation and plant regeneration for ex situ conservation
- Molecular Genetics
- Molecular basis of inheritance & genome organization
- Organization of prokaryotic and eukaryotic genes and genomes including operon, exon, enhancer promoter sequences and other regulatory elements
- The molecular basis of transmission of genetic information
- nucleic acids and proteins
- DNA replication
- DNA damage and repair
- mutations– spontaneous
- induced and site-directed
- recombination in bacteria
- fungi and viruses
- transformation
- transduction
- conjugation
- transposable elements and transposition
- recombination
- transcription
- and translation
- Methods of gene isolation and identification
- split gene
- overlapping genes and pseudo gene
- Restriction mapping
- genetic libraries
- cloning
- Gene sequencing
- conventional and next generation sequencing
- PCR
- Construction and use of molecular marker-based chromosome maps
- MAS
- comparative and association mapping and genome analysis
- Epigenetics
- bioinformatics
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
- its objectives and application
- Selective methods of breeding
- Controlled pollination and development of hybrids in forestry
- Apomixes
- incompatibility and male sterility system
- Advance generation breeding- multiple populations and nucleus breeding
- Polyploidy and mutation breeding
- Breeding for specific traits viz. wood properties
- resistance to insect and diseases
- Ideotype breeding
- Genetic and physiological basis of abiotic stress tolerance
SECTION C: APPLIED TREE IMPROVEMENT
- Species and provenance testing
- plus trees and their selection methods
- progeny testing and identification of elite trees
- Production of quality seeds and seed certification
- Seed orchards and seed production areas their establishment and management
- Advanced generation breeding/seed orchards
- Layout and designing of experimental trials
- Vegetative propagation
- principles
- methods and applications in trees
- Plant tissue culture- principles
- history and development
- field of application
- progress and prospects with special reference to tree crops
- Establishment and maintainance of cultures
- Stages of Micro-propagation
- Production of virus free plants
- Soma-clonal and gameto-clonal variation
- factors influencing
- exploitation for crop improvement
- Anther and haploid culture and production of homo-diploids
- protoplast isolation
- culture and regeneration
- hybrid embryo culture and embryo rescue
- protoplast fusion for somatic hybridization
- cybridization and its application
- Techniques for direct gene transfer to protoplasts
- Somatic embryogenesis
- Genetically modified trees
- direct and indirect gene transfer
- transgene expression and stability
- Regulation of biosafety
- Clonal forestry- Clonal development
- testing and selection Concept of juvenility
- Establishment of VMGs and their management
- Propagation structures and their management
- Hardening of clonal plantlets
- deployment of clones
- the sites
- Release and registration of clonal material
- Plant exploration
- germplasm introduction
- exchange
- conservation
- and evaluation of forest genetic resources
- Intellectual property Rights
- Plant Variety Protection and Farmers’ Right Act
- System of variety release and notification
- Seed production and certification
- Geographical Indicators
SECTION D: STATISTICAL METHODS AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS
- Frequency distribution
- measures of central tendency
- probability theory and its application in genetics
- Tests of significance
- Null hypothesis
- Z test
- t- test
- x2 (chi-square) test
- F-test
- Correlation- linear
- partial multiple regression
- Genetic divergence
- Multivariate analysis
- basic principles of design of experiment
- RBD
- CRBD
- SPD
- IRBD
- Augmented design
- Grid and honeycomb design
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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
Mineralogical properties of soil
- important primary and secondary minerals and their influence on soil behavior
Physical properties of soil
- texture
- structure
- density
Chemical properties of soil
- formation of organic and inorganic soil colloids
- types of clay minerals
Biological properties of soil
- Role of macro- and micro organisms and their influence on soil conditions
- important microflora involved in mineralization of nutrient elements
Concept of chemical analysis
- Solution reactions
- titrimetric analysis
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
Soil fertility evaluation
- soil testing
- plant and tissue tests and biological methods
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
Organic and inorganic fertilizers
- Soil erosion
- types and causes of erosion
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
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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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