Horticultural Crop Breeding: Principles & Practices (Hardback, Bhimasen Naik)

Section I: Overview and Biological Foundations1. Horticultural Crop Breeding: An Overview, 2. Plant Biotechnology: An Introduction,3. Classical and Quantitative Genetic Basis,4. Molecular Genetic Basis I: Markers, QTL Mapping and Marker-Assisted Selection,5. Molecular Genetic Basis II: Association Mapping,6. Mode of Reproduction in Relation to Horticultural Crop Breeding, 7Pollination Control MechanismSection II: Breeding Principles,8. Plant Domestication: Bringing Plants under Cultivation,9. Plant Genetic Resources: Collection, Conservationand Utilization, 10. Variation: Types and Estimation, 11. Genetic Components of Polygenic Variation andBreeding Strategies,12. lection: Basis of Crop Breeding,13. Heterosis and Inbreeding Depression,14. Hybridization: Techniques and Consequences,15. Timelines in Conventional Crop Improvement: Pre-Breeding and Breeding Procedures,Section III: Breeding Practices,Part A: Conventional Breeding Practices, 16. Plant Introduction and Acclimatization: Sexually and Asexually Propagated Crops, 17. Methods of Selection: Heterogeneous, Homozygous Self-Pollinated Populations, 18. Methods of Selection: Segregating, Self-Pollinated Populations, 19. Methods of Selection: Cross-Pollinated Populations, 20.Heterosis Breeding: Development of Hybrid Cultivars, 21. Selection and Hybridization in Asexually Propagated Crops, Part B: Non-Conventional Breeding Practices, 22.Mutation Breeding: Sexually and Asexually Propagated Crops, 23. Polyploidy Breeding: Manipulating Chromosomes, 24.Wide (Distant) Hybridization and Introgressive Breeding, 25.Marker Assisted Selection: Assisting Conventional Methods, 26.In-Vitro Breeding: Crop Improvement Through Tissue Culture, 27.Transgenic Breeding: Crop Improvement Through Genetic Engineering, Part C: Mission-Oriented Breeding Practices, 28.Breeding for Resistance to Biotic Stresses, 29.Breeding for Resistance to Abiotic Stresses_x000D_