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Singh, Dhan Pal

Plant breeding and cultivar development / Dhan Pal Singh, Asheesh K. Singh & Arti Singh - Amsterdam : Academic Press, 2021 - 639 p.

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




ISBN: 9780128175637 (pbk)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Technology--Botany--Plants Breeding

Dewey Class. No.: 631.52 / Si643