This book is useful for those who are doing work in sesame, generation mean analysis. In sesame, due to epipetalous flower structure, there is good scope for exploitation of heterosis. The heterosis expresses the superiority of F1 hybrid over its parents in term of yield and other characters. On the other hand, inbreeding depression reflects on reduction or loss in vigour, fertility and yield. Proportion of inbreeding depression in any generation becomes essential for the plant breeders. Heritability expresses the relative amount of heritable portion of variation; however, its estimate along...

This book is useful for who are going to conduct research related to mutation. The success of mutation breeding lies in creating appropriate genetic variability without many associated deleterious effects in plant type and its performance in terms of productivity and nutritional alternations. Micro mutation are expected to be more effective in inducing higher proportion of desirable mutations and providing future base for selection through induction of enormous polygenic variability.It also depends on effective and need based selection, observing the changes critically at plant level.