Breeding and Protection of Vegetables

Contents: Preface. 1. Vegetable Breeding Methods and Techniques/P. Hazra. 2. Development of vegetable varieties by use of various breeding methods/Jyotsna Devi. 3. Mutation breeding in vegetable crops/S.K. Pahuja, R.P. Saharan and Minakshi Jattan. 4. Molecular breeding of vegetable crops/Veena Chawla, N.R. Yadav and P. Narayanaswamy. 5. Heterosis Breeding in vegetable crops/N. Rai and Ramesh Kumar Singh. 6. Breeding for disease and insect-pest resistance in vegetable crops/Jyotsna Devi and Pronab Talukdar. 7. Vegetable Breeding for quality traits/P. Hazra and A. K. Dutta. 8. Insect-Pests of vegetable crops and their management/Ram singh and G.s. Dhaliwal. 9. Nemotadoe Problems and their management/R.K. Walia and R.S. Kanwar. 10. Managemnt of fungal and bacterial diseases in vegetable crops/S.K. Gandhi and Naresh Mehta. 11. Viral diseases of vegetable crops and their management/Rakesh Kumar and Hari Chand. 12. Post-Harvest diseases of vegetable crops and their management/Naresh Mehta and M.S. Sangwan.

The book has been written in a very simple and easily understandable language. The information given in this book is based on systematically and scientifically designed field and laboratory experiments conducted in various ecological zones.

It is believed that this book will serve the scientific society in a variety of ways. Undergraduate and postgraduate students, professors, teachers, scientists and researchers having their interests in different fields of specialization will certainly be benefited. The book covers articles written by well known authorities in respective fields.