Principles Of Plant Breeding (ePub)

The book of principles of plant breeding is differently designed for the students who are planning for all kinds central competitive exams on agricultural sciences in addition to UG, PG, PhD scholars, teachers/ scientists who are in the stream of ICAR Agricultural/Horticultural university and those who opt for the competitive exams in the field of agriculture. This book is in simple language even for the complex concepts, therefore the readers will certainly pick this book. It has totally 25 chapters excluding the question bank. The book is emphasised on the topics like Importance of plant breeding, Classification of crop plant, Gametogenesis, Male sterility, Self incompatibility, Apomixes, Plant genetic resources, Centres of origin and plant introduction, Domestication and Acclimatisation(Plant Introduction as method of breeding, Genetic make of self pollinated crops and genetic basis of selection pure line and mass selection methods, Breeding methods for self pollinated crops -Hybridization as method of breeding, Selection in the segregating generation - Pedigree method of selection, bulk method and back cross method, Breeding methods for cross pollinated crops, Biometrics application in plant breeding, Heterosis and inbreeding depression, Breeding methods for asexually propagated crops, Polyploid breeding, Mutation breeding, Biotechnological application in plant breeding ,Polygenic inheritance, Various steps in releasing new variety , Intellectual property rights:, Institutes working on plant breeding, Institutes working on plant breeding, Breeding for disease resistance, Breeding for insect resistance. The resistance breeding is also covered with good examples for the better understand. No book is comparable in market in this precise manner. This book is designed exclusive for the competition, Hope the students especially who are in agriculture or horticulture will get maximum benefits from this book.