Principles and Procedures of Plant Breeding Biotechnological and Conventional Approaches

Principles and Procedures of Plant Breeding Biotechnological and Conventional Approaches By G.S. Chahal, S.S. Gosal, CONTENTS : Preface, 1. Introduction 2. Reproduction in Crop Plants 3. Plant Genetic Resources – Origin, Conservation and Utilization 4. Genetic Basis and Application of Selection in Self-pollinated Crops 5. Mendelian Consequences of Planned Hybridization in Self-pollinated Crops 6. Quantitative Inheritance 7. The Analysis of Genotype Environment Interactions 8. Application of Biometrical Genetics in Plant Breeding 9. Pedigree Method 10. Bulk Population Breeding Method 11. The Single Seed Descent Method 12. Backcross Method 13. Fertility Regulating Mechanisms 14. Genetic Basis of Hetrosis 15. Breeding for Hetrosis 16. Genetic Structure of Cross-pollinated Crops 17. Population Improvement in Cross Pollinated Crops 18. Population Improvement Methods 19. Synthetic and Composite Varieties 20. Breeding for Asexually Propagated Crops 21. Breeding for Resistance to Diseases and Insect Pests 22. Mutation Breeding 23. Polyploidy in Plant Breeding 24. Tissue Culture in Crop Improvement 25. Molecular Approaches to Crop Improvement 26. Genetic Transformation and Production of Transgenic Plants 27. Biometry in Relation to Molecular Biology in Plant Breeding 28. Field Plot Techniques in Plant Breeding 29. Plant Breeders Rights, Release and Multiplication of Varieties, Glossary, Index, Audience Undergraduate and Graduate students in Plant Breeding.