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The book covers in detail both concepts and practices of resistance breeding to abiotic stresses. It has references of the original, important work on various aspects. The topics and sub-topics have been dealt with specific examples from as many different crop plants as possible. It is hoped that the book will be useful to students, teachers and researchers engaged for the improvement of crop plants to abiotic stresses through genetic manipulations.
The book disease and Insect Resistance in Plants covers in detail the principles and practices of conventional plant breeding as well as newer and recent biotechnological tools such as marker-assisted selection and transgenic crops. The book is meant as an advanced text and it is presumed that readers will have basic knowledge of plant pathogens, insect-pests and their genetics. The book can also be used as a reference book by plant pathologists, entomologists ...