Plant Breeding, Biometry & Biotechnology /
Dipak Kumar Kar and Soma Halder.
- 1 online resource (423 pages)
1. PLANT BREEDING: AN INTRODUCTION -- 2. REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS IN CROP PLANTS -- 3. BREEDING METHODS: INTRODUCTION AND ACCLIMATIZATION -- 4. BREEDING METHODS: SELECTION -- 5. BREEDING METHODS: HYBRIDIZATION -- 6. HETEROSIS AND HYBRID SEED PRODUCTION -- 7. BREEDING METHODS: SUPPLEMENTARY PROCEDURE -- 8. CULTIVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF SOME CROPS -- BIOMETRY -- 9. BIOMETRY: AN INTRODUCTION -- 10. MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY AND DISPERSION -- 11. TEST OF SIGNIFICANCE AND ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE -- 12. PROBABILITY AND CHI-SQUARE TEST -- 13. CORRELATION AND REGRESSION -- 14. MEASUREMENT OF GENE FRQUENCY -- PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY -- 15. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION -- 16. PLANT CELL AND TISSUE CULTURE: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS -- 17. CALLUS CULTURE AND CELL SUSPENSION CULTURE -- 18. PLANT REGENERATION AND MICROPROPAGATION -- 19. ZYGOTIC EMBRYO CULTURE AND EMBRYO RESCUE -- 20. PROTOPLAST CULTURE AND SOMATIC HYBRIDIZATION -- 21. ANTHER-POLLEN CULTURE AND HAPLOID PLANTS -- 22. RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING -- 23. BIOINFORMATICS -- 24. GENE TRANSFER AND TRANSGENIC PLANTS -- 25. APPLICATIONS OF PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY -- GLOSSARY -- SUGGESTED READINGS -- INDEX.
This book covers the principles and methods of plant breeding, while elementary principles of Genetics are also explained here in detail. The recent advances in Molecular Genetics have resulted in the use of Biotechnology as the modern method of breeding. Such cutting-edge advances are under the purview of the text.