ASRB NET Syllabus 2025, Discipline-wise Syllabus, Exam Pattern

Agricultural Biotechnology

• Cell structure and function

• Biomolecules and metabolism

• Enzymology

• Molecular genetics

• Gene expression

• Tissue culture

• Plant genetic engineering

Agricultural Entomology

• Systematics

• Morphology

• Embryology, internal anatomy, and physiology

• Ecology

• Pesticide application equipment

• Pests of field crops and their management

• Pests of horticultural crops and their management

Agricultural Microbiology

• History of microbial world

• Microbial ecology and physiology

• Soil microbiology

• Environmental microbiology and basic microbiological techniques

• Microbial biotechnology

Economic Botany & Plant Genetic Resources

• Plant taxonomy and biosystematics

• Economically important plants-I

• Biodiversity and plant genetic resources

• Germplasm augmentation

• Germplasm characterization, evaluation, maintenance and regeneration

Genetics & Plant Breeding

• General genetics and plant breeding

• Economics botany, and plant breeding methods

• Genome organization and cytogenetics of crop

• Plant genetic resources and their regulatory system, varietal release and seed production

• Statistical methods and field plot techniques

Nematology

• History and economic importance

• Nematode taxonomy and morphology

• Interactions of nematodes with soil organisms

• Statistics

Plant Biochemistry

• Basic biochemistry and biomolecules

• Intermediary metabolism

• Enzymes, vitamins, and hormones

• Plant biotechnology/genetic engineering

Plant Pathology

• History and principles of plant pathology

• Laboratory and analytical techniques

• Physiological and molecular plant pathology

• Mycology

• Management of plant diseases

Plant Physiology

• Cell organelles and water relations

• Metabolic processes and growth regulation

• Crop productivity and modelling

• Morphogenesis, tissue culture and plant transformation

Seed Science and Technology

• Seed production

• Seed processing

• Seed industry development and marketing protection of plant varieties

Floriculture and Landscaping

• Breeding

• Production technology of cut flowers

• Computer aided designing for outdoor and indoor escaping

Fruit Science

• Subtropical and temperate fruit production

• Biodiversity and conservation

• Protected fruit culture

Spices, Plantation, Medical & Aromatic Plants

• Production of plantation crops

• Spice and plantation crop production technology

Vegetable Science

• Production technology of cool season vegetable crops

• Production tech. of warm season vegetable crops

• Breeding of vegetable crops

• Growth and development

• Seed production

• Systematics of vegetable crops

• Production technology of underexploited vegetable crops

• Post-harvest technology of vegetable crops

Animal Biochemistry

• Scope of biochemistry and molecular biology in animal sciences

• Structure and properties of carbs and fats

• Aminoacids, structure and properties

• Environmental pollution and animal health

Animal Biotechnology

• Cell biology

• Molecular biology

• Molecular biology techniques

Animal Genetics and Breeding

• Overview of geics

• Advanced geics

• Laboratory animal breeding

Animal Nutrition

• Energy and proteins

• Minerals, vitamins and feed additives

• Clinical nutrition

Animal Physiology

• Cellular basis of animal physiology

• Blood and circulation

• Climate physiology

• Behavioural physiology

Animal Reproduction and Gynaecology

• Veterinary Gynaecology

• Reproductive Endocrinology

• Canine and feline reduction

Dairy Chemistry

• Milk constituents, their physical and chemical nature

• Ice-cream: composition & physical structure

• Quality control & assurance

• Spectroscopy

Dairy Microbiology

• Microflora

• Role of starters in the preparation of fermented products

• Microbiological quality of indigenous dairy products

• Preparation of byproducts

• Quality control & assurance

Dairy Technology

• Market milk

• Fat-rich dairy products

• Frozen milk products

• Legal and quality aspects for milk and milk products

Livestock Products Technology

• Basic and general aspects of livestock products

• Abattoir and poultry processing plants

• Marketing

Livestock Production and Management

• General

• Breeding management

• Forage production and conservation

• Economics and marketing of livestock, poultry and their products

Poultry Science

• Poultry genetics and breeding

• Poultry nutrition

• Poultry health management

Veterinary Medicine

• General medicine

• Diagnosis of animal diseases

• Common diseases of zoo, laboratory animals, and wildlife

Veterinary Microbiology

• General bacteriology

• Systematic bacteriology

• Molecular cell biology

Veterinary Parasitology

• Veterinary helminthology

• Veterinary entomology

• Diagnostic parasitology

Veterinary Pathology

• Introduction, history and etiology

• Haemodynamics derangements, degeneration and necrosis

• Pathology of diseases of laboratory and wild animals

Veterinary Pharmacology

• General pharmacology

• Drug acting on the central nervous system

• Autacoids

• Ecotoxicology

• Miscellaneous topics

Veterinary Public Health

• Veterinary public health

• Milk hygiene

• Standard guidelines and legislation

• Microbiology in public health

Veterinary Surgery

• General surgery

• Anaesthesia

• Radiology

• Abdominal and pelvic surgery

Aquaculture

• Aquaculture system

• Species selection criteria for various culture practices

• Farm design, construction and operational management

Fisheries Resources

• Fisheries resources

• Fishery biology

• Fisheries livelihood

Fish Processing Technology

• Craft technology

• Gear technology

• Fishery engineering

• Economics and marketing

Fish Nutrition

• Principle of fish nutrition

• Nutritional physiology

• Nutrigenomics

Fish Health

• Introduction to fish health and pathology

• Diseases of fish

• Diseases prevention and control

Fish Genetics & Breeding

• Principles of fish genetics and breeding

• Population and quantitative geics

• Conservation, bioinformatics

Agricultural Chemicals

• General chemistry

• Chromatography and spectroscopic techniques

• Chemistry of natural products

• Data analysis

Agricultural Meteorology

• General climatology

• Agricultural climatology

• Weather forecasting for agriculture

Agroforestry

• Forestry policies and acts

• Agroforestry, Social Forestry, Community Forestry, Farm Forestry

• Statistics

Agronomy

• Crop ecology and geography

• Weed management

• Agricultural statistics

• Irrigation water management

• Management of problematic soils and water

Environmental Science

• Definition and scope of environment science

• Basic ecological concepts

• Biodiversity concepts

• Composition of air

• standard deviation

Soil Science

• Pedology

• Soil physics

• Statistics

Agri-Business Management

• General management

• Business accounting & financial management

• Strategic management and entrepreneurship

Agriculture Economics

• Economic theory

• Agricultural development and policy

• Natural resource and production economics

• Agricultural finance and project management

• Agricultural marketing and price analysis

• Operations research methods

Agricultural Extension

• Fundamentals of extension and communication

• Extension methods & farm journalism

• Gender sensitize and empowerment

Agricultural Statistics & Informatics

• Mathematical methods in statistics

• Probability and mathematical statistics

• Optimization techniques and soft computing

Home Science

• Human nutrition, health, and interventions

• Food science and processing technologies

• Home science extension and communication methods

Farm Machinery and Power

• Farm mechanization and equipment

• Farm machinery design

• Farm machinery testing evaluation and management

• Instrumentation and measurement techniques

Computer Application & IT

• Computer organization and architecture

• Programming language & data structure

• Artificial intelligence and soft computing

• Statistics modelling and simulation

• Bioinformatics

Land and Water Management Engineering

• Ground water development wells and pumps

• Open channel hydraulics

• Soil, plant, water and atmosphere relationship

• Hydrology and soil and water conservation

• Watershed management

• Irrigation water management

• Management of degraded, waterlogged and other problematic soils and water

Bioinformatics

• Concepts in computing

• Programming languages

• Database systems and biological databases

• Mathematics and statistics

• Biochemistry and molecular biology

• Genomics and proteomics

• Analytic bioinformatics

• Molecular modelling

• Algorithms and data structures in bioinformatics

Food Technology

• Introductory food technology

• Technology of foods of plant origin

• Technology of foods of animal origin

• Food quality management

• Food engineering/packaging and labelling

• Food microbiology & biotechnology

• Flavour chemistry technology

• Consumer sciences/food product development/health foods

Agricultural Process Engineering

• Heat and mass transfer

• Farm structures and farmstead planning

• Storage engineering

• Material handling packaging and transport

• Post-harvest operations

Veterinary Anatomy

• Gross Anatomy

• Micro Anatomy

• Developmental Anatomy