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Fundamentals of plant breeding and hybrid seed production
by Agrawal, Rattan Lal
Publication:
United States of America
Science Publishers, Inc.
1998
. viii, 394 pages :
, Part one : introductory topics --
1. Introduction --
2. Historical resume --
3. Crop germplasm --
4. Reproductive system --
5. Male sterility --
6. Self-incompatibility --
7. Techniques of artificial hybridization --
8. Genetic basis of plant breeding --
9. Selection --
10. Interspecific and intergeneric hybridization --
Part two : methods of crop breeding --
11. Pure-line selection --
12. Pedigree method --
13. Bulk-population method --
14. Backross method --
15. Population method --
16. Recurrent selection --
17. Germplasm composites and synthetic varieties --
18. Asexually propagated crops --
19. Apomictic grasses --
20. Corn hybrids --
21. Hybrid varieties --
22. Mutation breeding --
23. Polyploid breeding --
24. Disease resistance breeding --
25. Insect resistance breeding --
26. Abiotic stresses --
27. Breeding for specific traits --
28. Plant tissue culture --
29. genetic engineering --
Part three : seed production --
30. Release and maintenance of crop variety --
31. Plant variety protection --
32. Hybrid seed production.
Date:
1998
Availability:
Items available:
ASCOT Library - Bazal Campus
Reference
[Ref 631.5 Ag81f 1998]
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