It covers propagation structures;nursery techniques and management; sexual method of propagation; apomixis, polymebryony, chimera and bud sport; selection and maintenance of mother trees; collection of scion wood stick, scion-stock relationship and their influences, and bud wood certification; natural vegetative propagation;conventional artificial vegetative propagation; and biotechnological artificial vegetative propagation (micropropagation).Simple and lucid language has been followed for clear and easy understanding of the beginners.

The book is illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Questions are set at the end of each chapter under Outcomes Assessment to assess the understanding of the students.

Ranjan Kumar Tarai, Associate Professor of Fruit Science, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Chiplima Campus, Sambalpur-768 025, Odisha, India

Bhimasen Naik, Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics,,Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Chiplima Campus, Sambalpur-768 025, Odisha, India

Ajit Kumar Sahoo, Assistant Professor of Fruit Science,Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology 
Chiplima Campus, Sambalpur-768 025, Odisha, India

Purandar Mandal, Assistant Professor, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology,Chiplima Campus, Sambalpur-768 025, Odisha, India

1 Plant Propagation: An Introduction, 2. Propagation Structures, 3.  Nursery Techniques and Management. 4.Sexual Method of Propagation.5. Apomixis, Polyembryony, Chimera and Bud Sport. 6    Selection and Maintenance of Mother Trees. 7 Collection of Scion Wood Stick, Scion-Stock Relationship and Their Influences, and Bud Wood Certification.. 8 Natural Vegetative Propagation..9 Conventional Artificial Vegetative Propagation.10 Biotechnological Artificial Vegetative Propagation (Micropropagation)