Principles of Plant Breeding

Contents: 1. History and plant breeding activities. 2. Plant introduction. 3. Plant genetic resources germplasm. 4. Mode of reproduction. 5. Modes of pollination. 6. Male sterility. 7. Self incompatability S.I. 8. Release of new varieties. 9. Genotype X environment interaction and its importance in plant breeding. 10. Systems of mating. 11. Methods of breeding in self pollinated crops. 12. Pedigree selection. 13. Backcross methods. 14 . Clonal selection....

The book entitled Principles of Plant Breeding provides an understanding of breeding methods for self cross pollinated crops and different principles of Plant Breeding for crop improvement. Authors has made efforts to give a complete text book as per ICAR revised syllabus which is implemented though out the India for PG students from 2009.