Horticultural Crop Breeding: Principles and Practices

Contents: Section I: Overview and Biological Foundations. 1. Horticultural Crop Breeding: An Overview. 2. Plant Biotechnology: An Introduction. 3. Classical and Quantitative Genetic Basis. 4. Molecular Genetic Basis I: Markers, QTL Mapping and Marker-Assisted Selection. 5. Molecular Genetic Basis II: Association Mapping. 6. Mode of Reproduction in Relation to Horticultural Crop Breeding. 7. Pollination Control Mechanism. Section II: Breeding Principles. 8. Plant Domestication: Bringing Plants under Cultivation. 9. Plant Genetic Resources: Collection, Conservation  and Utilization. 10. Variation: Types and Estimation. 11. Genetic Components of Polygenic Variation and  Breeding Strategies. 12. Selection: Basis of Crop Breeding. 13. Heterosis and Inbreeding Depression. 14. Hybridization: Techniques and Consequences. 15. Timelines in Conventional Crop Improvement:  Pre-Breeding and Breeding Procedures. Section III: Breeding Practices. Part A: Conventional Breeding Practices. 16. Plant Introduction and Acclimatization: Sexually and Asexually Propagated Crops. 17. Methods of Selection: Heterogeneous, Homozygous Self-Pollinated Populations. 18. Methods of Selection: Segregating, Self-Pollinated Populations. 19. Methods of Selection: Cross-Pollinated Populations. 20. Heterosis Breeding: Development of Hybrid Cultivars. 21. Selection and Hybridization in Asexually Propagated Crops. Part B: Non-Conventional Breeding Practices. 22. Mutation Breeding: Sexually and Asexually Propagated Crops. 23. Polyploidy Breeding: Manipulating Chromosomes. 24. Wide (Distant) Hybridization and Introgressive Breeding. 25. Marker Assisted Selection: Assisting Conventional Methods. 26. In-Vitro Breeding: Crop Improvement Through Tissue Culture. 27. Transgenic Breeding: Crop Improvement Through Genetic Engineering. Part C: Mission-Oriented Breeding Practices. 28. Breeding for Resistance to Biotic Stresses. 29. Breeding for Resistance to Abiotic Stresses.