Crucials of Plant Breeding

CONTENTS OF THE BOOK:

1. History
2. Introduction
3. Domestication, Plant introduction and acclimatisation
4. Plant introduction
5. Modes of reproduction in crop plants
6. Self-incompatibility
7. Male sterility
8. Pure lines
9. Quantitative and Qualitative Characters
10. Biometrical Techniques in Plant breeding
11. Heterosis and Inbreeding Depression
12. Hybridisation: Techniques and Consequences
13. Genetic Composition of Cross-pollinated Populations
14. Mass selection
15. Pedigree Selection
16. Bulk method
17. Backcross Methods of breeding
18. Other Approaches to Breeding of Self-pollinated crops
19. Population improvement
20. Hybrid varieties
21. Synthetics and Composite Varieties
22. Clonal Selection
23. Mutation in Crop Improvement
24. Polyploidy in Plant Breeding
25. Breeding for Drought Resistance
26. Breeding for Disease Resistance
27. Breeding for Insect Selection
28. Breeding for Salinity and Mineral Stresses
29. Breeding for Resistance to Heat and Cold Resistance
30. Breeding for Protein Quality
31. Breeding for Oil Quality
32. Ideotype Concept in Crop Improvement
33. Biotechnology in Crop Improvement
34. Release of New Variety
35. Quality Seed
36. Intellectual Property Rights
37. International Institutes for Crop improvements
38. Organizations for Crop Improvements in India
39. Model Questions

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