PLANT BREEDING: Classical to Modern

Description

This book offers a detailed overview of both conventional and modern approaches to plant breeding. In 25 chapters, it explores various aspects of conventional and modern means of plant breeding, including: history, objective, activities, centres of origin, plant introduction, reproduction, incompatibility, sterility, biometrics, selection, hybridization, methods of breeding both self- and cross- pollinated crops, heterosis, synthetic varieties, induced mutations and polyploidy, distant hybridization, quality breeding, ideotype breeding, resistance breeding, breeding for stress resistance, G x E interactions, tissue culture, genetic engineering, molecular breeding, genomics, gene action and varietal release. The book’s content addresses the needs of students worldwide. Modern methods like molecular breeding and genomics are dealt with extensively so as to provide a firm foundation and equip readers to read further advanced books. Each chapter discusses the respective subject as comprehensively as possible, and includes a section on further reading at the end. Info-boxes highlight the latest advances, and care has been taken to include nearly all topics required under the curricula of MS programs. As such, the book provides a much-needed reference guide for MS students around the globe. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction to Plant Breeding (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 3-33 Objectives, Activities and Centres of Origin (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 35-47 Germplasm Conservation (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 49-73 Front Matter ....Pages 75-75 Modes of Reproduction and Apomixis (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 77-89 Self-Incompatibility (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 91-104 Male Sterility (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 105-129 Basic Statistics (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 131-169 Front Matter ....Pages 171-171 Selection (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 173-183 Hybridization (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 185-202 Backcross Breeding (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 203-221 Breeding Self-Pollinated Crops (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 223-241 Breeding Cross-Pollinated Crops (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 243-256 Recombinant Inbred Lines (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 257-268 Quantitative Genetics (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 269-298 Front Matter ....Pages 299-299 Heterosis (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 301-328 Induced Mutations and Polyploidy Breeding (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 329-370 Distant Hybridization (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 371-378 Host Plant Resistance Breeding (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 379-412 Breeding for Abiotic Stress Adaptation (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 413-455 Genotype-by-Environment Interactions (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 457-472 Front Matter ....Pages 473-473 Tissue Culture (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 475-491 Genetic Engineering (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 493-507 Molecular Breeding (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 509-539 Genomics (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 541-560 Maintenance Breeding and Variety Release (P. M. Priyadarshan)....Pages 561-570