Plant Breeding and Cultivar Development

ISBN-13: 9780128175637 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 660 str.

D. P. Singh; A. K. Singh; A. Singh

Spis treści

1. Plant Breeding - Past, Present, and Future Perspectives

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. Wilde Hybridization

7. Haploids and Polyploidy

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

28. Phenomics and Machine Learning in Crop Improvement