The lists of the books which one can refer for the examination for Indian Forest Services with regards to Botany subject are as follows:


Cell Biology: De Robertis & Ambrose and Easy or Powar

Genetics: Strickberger or Vir Bala Rastogi

Physiology and Biochemistry: Salisbury and Ross or Fritz and Noggle

Ecology: Vir Bala Rastogi and M.S. Jayaraj and P.D. Singh

Economic Botany: Kochar or Verma

Microbiology: Powars's two books on microbiology are more than enough.

Pathology: Singh's book along with a foreign author

Cryptograms: B.R. Vasista (alage and fungi), P.C. Vashishta (Pteridophytes gymnosperms) Pandey and Trivedi (both volumes)

Embryology: Bhojwani and Bhatnagar

Plant Anatomy: Esau or B.P. Pandey

Taxonomy: Nair along with Datta

Paper-1

Lower Boiology (Algae, Fungi, Bryophyta, Pteridophyta, Gymnosperms): Singh, Pandey & Jain
Bacteria & Virus: H.C.Dubey

Microbiology: Taro & Kapoor
Plant Pathology: 1) P.D. Sharma – “Plant Pathology”; 2) R.S.Sharma – “Principles of Plant Pathology”

Economic Botany:
1) B.P. Pandey – “Economic Botany”
2) Few topics from Kochar

Plant Taxonomy: O.P.Sharma
Introduction to Botany (for Degree students): A.C.Dutta

Paper-2

Cell Biology:
1) “Cell Biology & Genetics” – P.K.Verma
2) Plant Physiology – Pandey & Sinha
3) Genetics – P.K.Gupta (for few topics)

Genetics:
1) B.D.Singh – Genetics
2) Pudan Singh – Introduction to Genetics
3) P.K.Gupta – Genetics

Plant Breeding:
1) B.D.Singh
2)Pudan Singh

Biotechnology:
B.D. Singh

Plant Physiology
1) Pandey & Sinha
2) V.K. Jain
3)Taiz & Zeiger (Photosynthesis, Respiration & Stress Physiology)

Ecology:
P.D. Singh