Plant Breeding and Cultivar Development (Paperback)

1. Plant Breeding ? Past, Present and Future Perspectives 2. Mode of Reproduction in Crop Plants 3. Genetics in Relation to Plant Breeding 4. Plant Genetic Resources 5. Wild hybridization 6. Haploids and Polyploidy 7. Genetic Structure of Cross-pollinated Crops 8. Inbreeding Depression and Heterosis 9. Hybridization and Selection in Self-pollinated Crops 10. Mass and Pure line Selection 11. Bulk Method 12. Pedigree Method 13. Single Seed Descent Method 14. Backcross Method 15. Mutation Breeding 16. Inter-population Improvement 17. Intra-population Improvement 18. Recurrent selection 19. Synthetic and Composite Varieties 20. Hybrid Varieties 21. Breeding Methods in Asexual Crops 22. Breeding for Resistance to Abiotic Stresses 23. Breeding for Resistance to Biotic Stresses 24. Intellectual Property Rights 25. Participatory Plant Breeding 26. Field Plot Designs in Plant Breeding 27. Genomics Assisted Breeding 28. Phenomics Assisted Breeding Glossary References