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This book offers a detailed overview of both conventional and modern approaches to plant breeding. In 25 chapters, it explores various aspects of conventional and modern means of plant breeding, including: history, objective, activities, centres of origin, plant introduction, reproduction, incompatibility, sterility, biometrics, selection, hybridization, methods of breeding both self- and cross- pollinated crops, heterosis, synthetic varieties, induced mutations and polyploidy, distant hybridization, quality breeding, ideotype breeding, resistance breeding, breeding for stress resistance, G x E interactions, tissue culture, genetic engineering, molecular breeding, genomics, gene action and varietal release. The book's content addresses the needs of students worldwide. Modern methods like molecular breeding and genomics are dealt with extensively so as to provide a firm foundation and equip readers to read further advanced books. Each chapter discusses the respective subject as comprehensively as possible, and includes a section on further reading at the end. Info-boxes highlight the latest advances, and care has been taken to include nearly all topics required under the curricula of MS programs. As such, the book provides a much-needed reference guide for MS students around the globe.Product Identifiers
PublisherSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN-139789811370946
eBay Product ID (ePID)11046669374
Product Key Features
Number of Pages570 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePlant Breeding: Classical to Modern
Publication Year2019
SubjectBiology
TypeTextbook
AuthorP. M. Priyadarshan
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height235 mm
Item Weight1323 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureSingapore
Title_AuthorP. M. Priyadarshan