Essentials of Plant Breeding - Couverture souple

Mohanan, K.V.

9788119364060: Essentials of Plant Breeding

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8119364066 ISBN 13 : 9788119364060

Editeur : PHI Learning, 2024

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Essentials of Plant Breeding’ provides comprehensive coverage of the principles and practices used in plant breeding. The present edition, revised and updated, covers the basic concepts of genetics based on which the science of plant breeding has developed and deals with the conventional and modern methods of plant breeding. Different aspects like breeding for producing new crop varieties, pest and disease resistance breeding, quality improvement, heterosis breeding, ideotype breeding, and stress resistance breeding have been dealt with. Details on variety release, seed certification, IPR, sustainable agriculture, etc. have been provided.

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� propos de l'auteur

K.V. Mohanan, Ph.D. has served University of Calicut, Kerala, India as Lecturer, Reader and Professor for more than 36 years. Also he served as Head of the Department of Botany, Director of Interuniversity Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Director of School of Biosciences of the University during his academic career. Prof. Mohanan has authored more than 200 research publications, 10 books and several book chapters and popular science papers. He has served as editor and editorial board member of several reputed journals. Presently, he is the patron of Gregor Mendel Foundation, an academic body working for promoting education and research in genetics, breeding and biotechnology. His major areas of interest include genetics, breeding and biotechnology of tropical crops.

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1. Plant Breeding—An Overview * 2. Biological Foundations of Plant Breeding * 3. Conventional Methods of Plant Breeding * 4. Modern Methods of Plant Breeding * 5. Breeding for Special Purposes * 6. Variety Release and Seed Certification * 7. Intellectual Property Rights and Plant Breeding * 8. Sustainable Agriculture * Appendix I Some Improved Crop Varieties * Appendix II Model Questions

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