Contents: 1. Basic genetic concepts. 2. Transgressive breeding. 3. Introgressive breeding. 4. Participatory plant breeding. 5. Maintenance breeding. 6. Ideotype breeding. 7. Breeding for machine harvesting. 8. Breeding for climate change. 9. Breeding for multiple cropping systems. 10. Breeding for quality traits. 11. Space breeding and shuttle breeding. 12. Apomixis in plant breeding. 13. Line and multiline breeding. 14. Molecular breeding. 15. Smart breeding. 16. Reverse breeding. 17. Gene technology. 18. Introduction to genomics. 19. Transgenic technology. 20. Introduction to nanotechnology. 21. Evolution in crop plants.