Encyclopaedia of Plant Breeding

by N Emea

ISBN: 9789386595652
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Imprint : Agri Horti Press
Year : 2021
Price : Rs. 9995.00
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Author Profile

Dr. N. Emea, (Ph.D Plant Breeding) has more than 30 years of research experience in the field of Plant Breeding. He has published more than 60 research papers in many national and international journals. His area of research interest are Polypeoid breeding and Cloning of Plant Traits. Dr. Emae is well known scientist in the field of Plant Breeding.

About The Book

Plant breeding has been practiced for thousands of years, since near the beginning of human civilization. It is now practiced worldwide by individuals such as gardeners and farmers, or by professional plant breeders employed by organizations such as government institutions, universities, crop-specific industry associations or research centers. Almost all the domesticated plants used today for food and agriculture were domesticated in the centers of origin. In these centers there is still a great diversity of closely related wild plants, so-called crop wild relatives that can also be used for improving modern cultivars by plant breeding. This book deals with the various aspects of plant breeding, covering both the groups of crops--agricultural and horticultural. Explaining reproductive systems in crop plants, it discusses in detail plant genetic resources, genetic composition of crop plants, and breeding methods for self-pollinated as well as cross-pollinated crops. This volume would be useful to students, teachers and researchers engaged in the field of plant breeding, seed technology and genetics.