Manual on Vegetable Breeding
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Manual on Vegetable Breeding

  1. English
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Manual on Vegetable Breeding

About this book

The book manual on Vegetable breeding constitutes on vegetable breeding methods of selfing and crossing techniques, breeding objectives, breeding methods, stress management, biotechnological approaches etc. the whole book is packed in 29 chapters which includes introduction about vegetable breeding and genetics general aspects of vegetable breeding programme, practical account of developing high yielding varieties in important vegetable crops, biometries studies, stress management in vegetable crops biotic and abiotic stress, biotechnological approaches, crossing techniques, breeding trials, seed testing procedure, determination and estimation of quality analysis, varietal testing and release etc. in most lucid and simple manner understandable to students while treating the subject, the interested students will find easy access to there once they go through the selected list of references. The book will serve as text book for useful not only to the graduate students of agricultural universities of India as a ready reckoner for the professionals, who are actively engaged in development of varieties in vegetable crops.

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Table of contents

  1. 1. Present and Future Vegetable Breeding
  2. 2. Breeding Methods and their Modifications
  3. 3. History of Vegetable Breeding Research in India
  4. 4. Important Vegetables
  5. 5. Plant Genetic Resources
  6. 6. Centres of Diversity and Gene Banks
  7. 7. Heterosis Breeding
  8. 8. Ideotype Breeding
  9. 9. Mutation Breeding
  10. 10. Polyploidy Breeding
  11. 11. Male Sterility
  12. 12. Importance of Mode of Reproduction to Plant Breeding
  13. 13. Breeding for Resistance to Biotic Stresses : Disease Resistance
  14. 14. Breeding for Resistance to Abiotic Stresses
  15. 15. Breeding for Resistance to Abiotic Stresses : Drought Resistance
  16. 16. Physiological Basis of Breeding for Abiotic Stress
  17. 17. Breeding for Salt Tolerance
  18. 18. Cold Tolerance
  19. 19. Physiological Paramaters for Effective Breeding Objectives in Vegetables
  20. 20. Breeding Trials
  21. 21. Seed Production and Testing Procedure
  22. 22. Estimation of Quality Parameters in Vegetable Crops
  23. 23. Role of Biotechnology in Vegetable Breeding
  24. 24. Regulatory Framework for Varietal Testing and Release in India
  25. 25. Maintenance of Records and Studies on Segregating Generations
  26. 26. Equipments for Breeders Kit (Breeders Equipment)
  27. Terms
  28. Appendix
  29. Suggested Readings