TY - BOOK AU - Singh, Dhan Pal TI - Plant breeding and cultivar development SN - 9780128175637 (pbk) U1 - 631.52 PY - 2021/// CY - Amsterdam PB - Academic Press, KW - Technology--Botany--Plants Breeding N1 - 1. Plant breeding: past, present, and future perspective 2. Mode of reproduction in crop plants 3. Genetics in relation to plant breeding 4. Primer on population and quantitative genetics 5. Plant genetic resources 6. Wide hybridization 7. Haploidy and polyploidy in crop improvement 8. Hybridization and selection in self pollinated crops 9. Mass and pure line selection 10. Bulk method 11. Pedigree method 12. Single seed descent method 13. Backcross method 14. Mutation breeding 15. Inbreeding depression and heterosis 16. Population improvement 17. Recurrent selection in self pollinated crops 18. Synthetic and composite varieties 19. Hybrid varieties 20. Breeding methods used in asexual crops 21. Breeding for resistance to abiotic stresses 22. Breeding for resistance to biotic stresses 23. Intellectual property rights and protection 24. Participatory plant breeding 25. Breeding of crop ideotypes 26. Field plot designs in plant breeding 27. Molecular tools in crop improvement and cultivar development ER -