Principles and Plant Breeding Methods of Field Crops in India

It is a text book and it comprises of chapters with field crops grown in India in different states of the country following principles, procedure of breeding and problems in breeding of field crops in India. It has cereals, pulses, oil seeds, fibre crops, forage crops and general breeding methodologies and particular steps involved in breeding of disease resistant crops, pest resistant crops, abiotic stress resistant crops, tools involved in hybrid seed production etc. the chapters of each crop has short, lucid, point by point approach beginning from its origin, wild relatives, classification of different species, floral biology, anthesis and pollination, breeding objectives, parentage of different popular varieties in India, their duration, distant hybridization, detail different methods of breeding, quality assessment of different crops like oil percentage of oil seed crops, ginning percentage of cotton, detail methodology of hybrid seed production of cotton, rice, maize, castor, sunflower etc.