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Author Profile

Dr. Alpa Yadav, currently faculty at Department of Botany, Indira Gandhi University, MeerpurRewari has more than eight years of teaching experience at post graduate level having specialization in Mycology, Plant Pathology, Plant Ecology and Plant Physiology. A Doctorate from Kurukshetra University, her brilliancy is reflected from the fact that during the higher studies she was engaged as researcher in a CSIR project at MDU, Rohtak. She is an academically inclined personality having significant amount of exposer in research as well. More than 30 research papers are published by her in the journals of international repute having Scopus, UGC CARE and WoS indexation. More than twenty papers are presented by her in various national and international conferences. She has successfully supervised more than 180 project work at post graduate level. A vivid personality having interest in teaching and research, she has been involved in the development of institution a multifaceted way.

About The Book

Plant breeding is an applied branch of Botany, which deals with improvement of agricultural crops. This branch of agricultural science has contributed maximum to the increase in food production all over the world and therefore, now a day it assuming ever increasing importance in field of agriculture in every country. Riley, 1978 defined plant breeding as a technology of developing superior crop plants/ varieties for various purpose. Frankel, 1958 defined plant breeding as the genetic adjustment of plants to the service man. Plant breeding is a branch of biology concerned with changing the genotype of plant so that they become more useful.The food grain production of India has increased from 54 millions tonnes to 206 million tonns. As a result of this the nation has become almost self sufficient in food grain, this thing is achieved only due to green revolution has tookes place in 196566. Green revolution in our country particularly in Rice and Wheat increases our food grain production in our country particularly in Rice and Wheat increases our food grain production and today we are exporting several million tonns food grain to many developed and developing country.On the other hand population of our country after independence also increasing at an arming rate of 2.5% per year, this make it necessity that the food grains production should increases at least at the same rate or faster than the population rate. Therefore, it is the necessity of modern farmers. Progressive farmers to apply plant breeding science, techniques for the development of new high yielding varieties, to meet the need of this tremendous growing population.

Table of Contents

Preface 15 Chapter 1 Developments in Plant Breeding 17 Chapter 2 Plant Breeding in India 31 Chapter 3 Important Principles 39 Chapter 4 Methods of Plant Breeding 49 Chapter 5 Disease Resistance : Steps and Methods of Plant Breeding 57 Chapter 6 DNA into Plant Cells Mechanisms of Transfer 71 Chapter 7 MarkerAssisted Selection 81 Chapter 8 Cultigens and Cultivars 93 Chapter 9 Domestication of Plants 101 Chapter 10 Pest Resistance : Classical Plant Breeding 117 Chapter 11 Organic Plant Breeding and Sustainability 129 Chapter 12 Plant Breeding and Genetic Engineering 163 Chapter 13 Plant Tissue Culture 183 Chapter 14 Plant Hormone 193 Chapter 15 Marker Assisted Selection Techniques 201 Chapter 16 Quantitative Genetics and Molecular Markers 205 Chapter 17 Plant Genetics and Plant Breeding 223 Chapter 18 Mutation Breeding 229 Chapter 19 Transgenic Breeding 241 Chapter 20 Hybridization in Plants 267 Bibliography 283 Index 287