Principles of Plant Breeding

Hari Har Ram (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

384 Seiten

2023
New India Publishing Agency (Verlag)
978-81-19002-58-0 (ISBN)

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Principles of Plant Breeding, the current text, is a comprehensive introductory resource that delves into the fundamental principles of plant breeding across 32 chapters, encompassing both conventional and modern techniques. The book also features an extensive glossary that covers all aspects related to plant breeding.

Hari Har Ram, Ph. D. with major in Plant Breeding and Minor in Biochemistry is currently working as Consultant to a few commercial vegetable seed companies and Tata Trusts, Agriculture Development. He earned his Ph. D. in Plant Breeding from the first state agricultural university the then Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University (UPAU) and now the G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar in 1973. On the date of thesis submission itself, he joined as Assistant Professor (Vegetable Breeding) in the department of Plant Breeding and could get guidance of (late) Prof. V. L. Asnani (Maize Breeder), Prof. J. P. Srivastava (Wheat Breeder and my Ph. D. Guide), (late) Prof. Amarjeet Singh (Pearl Millet Breeder and Joint Director, Seed Production and my M. Sc. Ag. Guide), Prof. J. S. Nanda (Rice Breeder), Prof. C. M. Pattanaik (Sorghum Breeder), Prof. B. D. Agrawal (Maize Breeder), (late) Prof. B. Rai and Prof. S. S. Baghel, and others. In 1980, he got additional charge of Soybean Breeding after Dr. B. B. Singh, the then Soybean Breeder left Pantnagar to join as cowpea breeder at IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria. Dr. Hari Har Ram was appointed as regular soybean breeder in 1983 and continued on this position till 1992 when he was appointed as Professor (Vegetable Science) in the department of Horticulture and had to leave the department of Plant Breeding where he had spent the most precious moments of life both as a student (M. Sc. Ag. and Ph. D.) from 1967 to 1973 and as a vegetable and soybean breeder from 1973 to 1992. In the department of Plant Breeding, he regularly taught Plant Genetics to the post-graduate students.

1. Introduction to Plant Breeding
2. Plant Breeding in India
3.Reproductive Systems
4. Qualitative and Quantitative Characters
5. Gene Action
6. Heritability
7. Response to Selection
8. Genes in Population and Hardy-Weinberg Law
9. Inbreeding
10.Heterosis
11. Male Sterility
12. Self-Incompatibility
13. Centres of Origin
14. Plant Breeding Methods
15. Mass Selection
16. Pure Line Selection
17. Pedigree Method of Plant Breeding
18. Bulk Population Breeding
19. Single Seed Descent Method
20.Backcross Breeding
21. Hybrid Breeding
22. Synthetic Varieties
23. Composite Cultivars
24. Recurrent Selection
25. Mutation Breeding
26. Polyploid Breeding
27. Breeding,Vegetatively Propagated Crops
28. Breeding for Resistance to Biotic Stresses
29. Breeding for Resistance to Abiotic Stresses
30. Molecular Plant Breeding
31.Transgenics Breeding
32. Release and Notification of Crop Varieties

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2025
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	660 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	81-19002-58-X / 811900258X
ISBN-13	978-81-19002-58-0 / 9788119002580
Zustand	Neuware