Distant Hybridization in Horticultural Crops

by M Sankaran, MR Dinesh

ISBN: 9789386615695
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Imprint : Daya Publishing House
Year : 2018
Price : Rs. 10495.00
Biblio : xiv+290p., col.figs., tabls., 25cm

Author Profile

Dr. M.R. Dinesh obtained M.Sc. (Hort.) and Ph.D. (Hort.) from University of Agricultural Sciences,Bengaluru. He started his career in the ‘Division of Fruit Crops’ at the Indian Institute of Horticultural Research as Scientist S1 and presently he is heading the ICAR-IIHR as Director. He has to his credit more than 50 research papers on fruit breeding in national and international journals of repute. He has published five catalogues, two books and contributed chapters for six books especially on fruit breeding. He is the fellow of Horticultural Society of India and has been conferred with several National and International Awards. Dr. M. Sankaran did M.Sc. (Hort.) from TNAU, Coimbatore and Ph.D. (Pomology) from IARI, New Delhi. Currently Dr. Sankaran is working as Senior Scientist at ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru. He is a BOYSCAST fellow and did his Post doctoral research at International Centre for Tropical Agriculture, Cali, Colombia. He has published more than 35 research papers on improvement of horticultural crops in national and international journals of repute. He has also published 6 books, 12 book chapters, 8 technical bulletins and 3 database.

About The Book

Global climate is considered to be biggest challenge to the agricultural/horticultural scientists because of the need for development of climate resilient crop varieties. It has also been felt that there is a need to double the present production of fruits and vegetables to over 500 million by 2050 and to meet the growing demand of all other horticultural commodities. The presence of narrow genetic base in cultivated species is one of the major impediments for the plant breeder to develop variety/varieties for wide adaptability and yield. Hence, the utilization of wild relatives and land races in breeding programmes is the need of hour as the reservoirs of potential genes, which can be transferred to the cultivated species through hybridization. Several studies have proved that there is pre and post fertilization barriers which can be overcome through techniques such as embryo rescue, protoplast fusion, alien addition lines, alien substitution lines and ploidy manipulations, etc. The wide hybridization has been proved to be a potential method for developing many stable varieties, which can withstand various biotic and abiotic stresses. Developed and commercialized several intergeneric and interspecific hybrids in fruits, vegetables, flowers, plantation crops medicinal and aromatic plants across the globe. This book would be a valuable documents to the policy makers, researchers and more precisely to the students who are interested in pursuing the higher studies in the field of distant hybridization in horticultural crops.

Table of Contents

Foreword v Preface vii List of Contributors xi 1. An Overview of Distant Hybridization in Horticultural Crops 1 M.Sankaran and M.R. Dinesh 2. Allied Species Utilization in Fruit Crop Improvement Way Forward 15 S. H. Jalikop 3. Distant Hybridization for Improvement of Temperate Fruits and Nuts 25 Nazeer Ahmed, A.K.Gupta, K.L. Kumawat and J.I. Mir 4. Intergeneric Hybrdization in Papaya 45 K. Soorianathasundaram 5. Interspecific Hybridization in Grapes 53 G.S.Karibasappa 6. Improvement Possibilities Through Species Utilization in Banana 63 T.N.Balamohan and G.Karunakaran 7. Intergeneric Hybridization of Carica papaya and Vasconcellea cauliflora 79 R. Jayavalli and T. N. Balamohan 8. Distant Hybridization in Coffee Improvement in India 91 N.S. Prakash, Jeena Devasia, V.B. Sureshkumar and Y. Raghuramulu 9. Prospects of Interspecific Hybrids in Oil Palm 103 R.K. Mathur, K. Sunilkumar and P. Murugesan 10. Wild Species Utilization in Vegetable Crops Improvement 111 Dutta O.P., Sadashiva A.T., K.Madhavi Reddy and Pitchimuthu, M. 11. Wide Hybridisation in Eggplant (Solanum spp.) 163 Padmini, K, Sadashiva, A.T, Singh, T.H and Dhananjay. V. Naik 12. Wide Hybridization in the Genus Abelmoschus Medikus 189 Joseph John K, Roy YC, M Latha and KV Bhat 13. Onion and Garlic Improvement Through Species Utilization 201 Vijay Mahajan, Ashwini Benke, S. Anandhan and Jai Gopal 14. Distant Hybridization and Tropical Tuber Crops: Designing for Adaptive Food-nutrition and Livelihood 221 Archana Mukherjee 15. Hybridizing Genetically Distant Wild and Cultivated Types for Crop Improvement in Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera Dunal) 255 D.H Sukanya 16. Pollen Cryopreservation in Distant Hybridization 265 Rajasekharan P.E and S. Ganeshan 17. Using Bees for Crop Improvement 275 V.V. Belavadi 18. Prospects, Opportunities and Concerns for Commercialization 283