Download the free Principles of Plant Breeding PDF! This updated PDF guide covers the essential concepts and advanced techniques in plant breeding, making it an invaluable resource for BSc and MSc agriculture/horticulture students, as well as for those preparing for competitive exams. With clear explanations and practical example.
Table of Contents
This resource has been revised by Dr. Parvaze Ahmad Sofi and reviewed by Dr. Akhilesh Sharma.
What’s Inside?
- Lesson 1: Plant Breeding as a Dynamic Science
- Lesson 2: Genetic Basis of Plant Breeding
- Lesson 3: Achievements and Limitations of Plant Breeding
- Lesson 4: Sexual Reproduction
- Lesson 5: Asexual Reproduction
- Lesson 6: Pollination Control Mechanisms
- Lesson 7: Selection
- Lesson 8: Hybridisation
- Lesson 9: Mass Selection
- Lesson 10: Pureline Selection
- Lesson 11: Pedigree Method
- Lesson 12: Backcross Method
- Lesson 13: Bulk Method
- Lesson 14: Hybrid Breeding
- Lesson 15: General and Specific Breeding Techniques
- Lesson 16: Heterosis – Concept and Genetic Basis
- Lesson 17: Estimation of Heterosis, GCA & SCA
- Lesson 18: Inbreeding Depression
- Lesson 19: Heritability and Genetic Advance
- Lesson 20: Emasculation and Pollination Techniques in Horticultural Crops
- Lesson 21: Breeding for Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
- Lesson 22: Polyploid Breeding
- Lesson 23: Mutation Breeding
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Language
English
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