Genetics and Plant Breeding

Plant breeding, concerned with the improvement of crops through techniques involving creation of genetic variation and subsequent selection of the desirable genotype, is crucial to the continual growth of agriculture, especially if the introduction of such crops with characters like high yield, superior quality, early maturity, resistance to diseases and pests, etc., is to be done. This book has been written as a manual for agronomists and agricultural engineers on the science and technology of genetics involved in the process of plant breeding. It aims to delineate the practices, processes and principles which define plant breeding today, taking into account current trends and developments occurring within the field