Merging Plant Breeding With Crop Biotechnology
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Plant Breeding Methods/Satish Kumar. 2. Breeding Clonally Propagated Crops/Mohanraj K., Anna Durai, A. and Ravinder Kumar. 3.Varietal deterioration and Maintenance Breeding/Chitra Devi Pandey, Sushil Pandey and Yasin J.K. 4. Breeding for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants/Pillai, M. S. Yasin, J.K., Vanniarajan C. Takahshi, Y. and Kusano T. 5. Breeding for Disease Resistance in Plants/Thirumalaisamy, P.P. and Pankaj Sharma. 6. Breeding for Insect Resistance in Crops/Vanitha K. 7. Breeding Horticultural Crops/Swamy J.S. and Anitha Pedapati. 8. Forest Tree Improvement/Manikandan, K and Anbu. 9. Molecular Markers and their Applications in Plant Breeding/Abdul Fiyaz, R. Ramya, K.T. and Ajay B.C. 10. Application of Tissue Culture in Plant Breeding/Viji M.M., Yasin J.K., Jaya Jasmine, A. Manju, R.V. and Roy Stephen. 11. Role of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Crop Improvement/Prathima P.T., Yasin J.K. Srivignesh S. and Rajkunmar Subramani. 12. Genetic Resource Management of Crop Plants/Nanjundan, J. and Padma, S.R. and Chitra Devi Pandey. 13. Bioinformatics for Plant Breeders/Prathima P.T., Yasin J.K. Rajesh Kumar and Grover M. 14. Policy Implications on Varieted Development and Seed Production/Sushil Pandey and Chitra Devi Pandey. 15. Seed Policy Implementation in India/Sushil Pandey and Chitra Devi Pandey.
The purpose of bringing out this publication is to link biotechnological and bioinformatics tools with plant breeding. The book comprises of 15 chapters with a special chapter on tree breeding contributed by experienced and recognised experts all around the world who have deep knowledge and research experience in modern plant breeding. This book is very useful to the researchers and students in the field of genetics and plant breeding using biotechnological tools.
