Practical Plant Breeding

Contents: 1. Plant breeding: today and tomorrow. 2. Reproduction and seed development in crop plants. 3. Techniques in selfing and crossing. 4. Wheat. 5. Maize. 6. Rice. 7. Barley. 8. Brassica. 9. Linseed. 10. Sesame. 11. Groundnut. 12.  Sunflower. 13. Soybean. 14 Castor. 15. Chickpea. 16. Pigeon pea. 17. Cowpea. 18. Lentil. 19. Mung Bean. 20. Cotton. 21. Sorghum. 22. Pearl Millet. 23. Finger millet. 24. Foxtail millet. 25. Proso millet. 26. Amaranthus. 27. Buckwheat. 28. Practical approaches to heterosis breeding. 29. Field plot techniques and genetic designs. 30. Estimation of quality parameters. 31. Chromosome techniques. 32. Response to selection pressure. 33. Gene recombination in F2. 34. Estimation of heritability. 35. Development of synthetic verities. 36. Self incompatibility. 37. Male sterility. 38. Breeding records. 39. Varietal testing and release in India. 40. Seed production and related organizations in the world. 41. Methods of growth analysis. Appendices.