Commercial Plant Breeding: Vol.01

Vegetable Crops (Completes in 2 Parts)

Hari Har Ram (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

666 Seiten

2021
New India Publishing Agency (Verlag)
978-93-90512-71-3 (ISBN)

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The book Commercial Plant Breeding-1 Vegetable Crops is comprised of 32 chapters, which are divided into two parts. Part I, Commercial Plant Breeding and Regulatory Affairs, contains 14 chapters and covers topics such as commercial plant breeding, the vegetable seed business, vegetable seed supply chain management, and various acts related to seed and IPR. Part II, Commercial Breeding of Vegetable Crops, consists of the remaining 18 chapters and is devoted to the commercial breeding of individual major vegetable crops relevant to the seed industry. This book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying vegetable breeding, as well as professionals in the agricultural industry. The book aims to bridge the gap between the academic and vegetable seed business worlds.

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.

Part 01: Commercial Plant Breeding and Regulatory Afairs
1. Commercial Plant Breeding
2. Vegetable Seed Business in India
3. Multi-Location Testing and Product Development
4. Grow Out Test
5. Seed Supply Chain Management
6. Seed Import and Export
7. Release and Notification of Vegetable Varieties in India
8. The Seed Act 1966
9. New Seed Policy 1988
10. Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act, 2001
11. Biological Diversity Act 2002
12. DUS Testing and Registration of Varieties
13. All India Coordinated Research Project (Vegetable Crops)
14. World Vegetable Centre (AVRDC)
Part 02: Commercial Breeding of Vegetable Crops
15. Tomato
16. Chili
17. Eggplant
18. Okra
19. Cabbage
20. Cauliflower
21. Bottle Gourd
22. Bitter Gourd
23. Sponge Gourd
24. Ridge Gourd
25. Cucumber
26. Pumpkin
27. Watermelon
28. Muskmelon
29. Onion
30. Radish
31. Carrot
32. Vegetable Pea

Erscheinungsdatum	23.03.2021
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	474 x 229 mm
Gewicht	1530 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	93-90512-71-9 / 9390512719
ISBN-13	978-93-90512-71-3 / 9789390512713
Zustand	Neuware