Principles And Practices of Plant Breeding

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Principles And Practices of Plant Breeding By Dr. V. Karpagam Dr. D. Malathi Dr. S. Suresh, CONTENTS : 1. Introduction to Plant Breeding 2. History and Activities in Plant Breeding 3. Centres of Diversity 4. Plant Genetic Resources (PGR) 5. Germplasm Evaluation, Utilization and Plant Quarantine 6. Modes of Reproduction
7. Self-Incompatibility 8. Sterility Systems 9. Genetic male sterility 10. Apomixis and Parthenocarpy 11. Polygenic Variation 12. Plant Introduction 13. Genetic basis in Self pollinated Crops 14. Selection Methods without Hybridization 15 Hybridization and Selection 16 Handling Segregating Generations 17 Single seed descent Method 18 Backcross Breeding 19 Multilines 20 Genetic Structure of Populations 21 Mass selection in Cross pollinated crops 22 Recurrent Selection 23 Heterosis Breeding 24 Hybrid Development 25 Synthetic and Composite Varieties 26 Clonal Selection 27 Polyploidy Breeding 28 Wide Hybridization and Pre-breeding 29 Mutation Breeding 30 Ideotype Breeding 31 Biotic Stress Resistance 32 Abiotic Stress Resistance Drought Resistance 33 Variety Release Procedures 34 Participatory Plant Breeding 35 Intellectual Property Rights 36 Smart and Integrated Breeding 37 Genomics-Assisted Breeding 38 Bioinformatics and Data-Driven Breeding
39 Phenomics and Digital Breeding 40 Rapid Breeding Techniques (Speed Breeding) 41 Genome Editing Technologies in Plant Breeding