Plant Breeding and Genetics at a Glance

Contents: Foreword. Preface to the second edition. Preface to the first edition. 1. Role of plant breeding in agriculture. 2. Crop improvement organizations in India. 3. Plant genetic resources. 4. Reproductive systems. 5. Biotechnology in crop improvement. 6. Breeding methods: self-pollinated crops. 7. Breeding methods: cross-pollinated crops and asexually propagated crops. 8. Quantitative trait analysis. 9. Breeding for quality traits. 10. Heterosis and inbreeding depression. 11. Polyploidy. 12. Mutations in crop improvement. 13. Breeding for biotic and abiotic stresses. 14. Ideotype. 15. Statistical methods and field plot techniques. 16. Cell biology. 17. Mendel\'s laws of heredity. 18. Genetics in crop improvement. 19. Seed production. 20. Agricultural education and research systems. 21. Definitions. 22. Model Exercises. Bibliography.

"This book will help students who are preparing for various competitive examinations in the areas of plant breeding and genetics. It covers the curses of the universities, agricultural scientists recruitment board, medical, provincial and civil service examinations. The present edition has been revised and updated with the latest geneotypes evolved for various zones of the country. Some new chapters on genetics have been added as these basically constitute the broad categories of the subject covered in this book. In this form the present edition will prove more suitable to our readers."