Essentials of Plant Breeding

by N Emea

ISBN: 9789386595720
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Imprint : Agri Horti Press
Year : 2022
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 in certain situations may lead to the domestication of wild plants. Domestication of plants is an artificial selection process conducted by humans to produce plants that have more desirable traits than wild plants, and which renders them dependent on artificial usually enhanced environments for their continued existence. An elaborate discussion on inbreeding depression, hybrid vigour, hybrid varieties, resistance of plants to fungal diseases and pests, breeding resistant varieties, polyploidy as well as mutation in plant breeding, and distant hybridization for plant improvement also finds place in the book. This book attempts to present a readable format on plant breeding principles and their application. 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. Hope this book would be highly useful for the students, teachers and researchers of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Agricultural Botany and plant biotechnology.