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Plant breeders employ a variety of techniques to improve the genetic composition of the crop and a successful strategy is dependent on the physical, physiological and hereditary characteristics of the plant.
The book Plant Breeding Fundamentals and its Applications has been written in a condensed form for easy understanding to the students. Each chapter has been laid out very carefully.
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A.K. Sharma Professor and Head, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, S.K. Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India
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1. Plant Breeding and Its Objectives
2. Centers of Origin
3. Crop Genetic Resources and Introduction
4. Apomixis in Plant Breeding
5. Male Sterility and It’s Role in Agriculture
6. Self-incompatibility and Its Applications
7. Pollination in Plants
8. Hybridization Techniques
9. Breeding Methods for Self Pollinated Crops
10. Breeding Methods for Cross-Pollinated Crops
11. Botany of Some Important Crops
12. Heterosis, Inbreeding and System of Mating
13. Hybrid and Synthetic Varieties
14. Breeding Methods for Vegetatively Propagated Crops
15. Mutation Breeding
16. Polyploidy Breeding
17. Abiotic Stresses (Drought)
18. Disease Resistance
19. Variety Release Procedure
20. Classes of Seed
21. Crop Ideotypes
22. Plant Tissue Culture
23. Genetic Engineering
24. Molecular Markers
25. Marker Assisted Selection and Quantitative Trait Loci
26. Intellectual Property Right (IPR)
27. Biometry
28. Questions and Answers
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