India has a very well organised seed industry both in public and private sectors and this can be effectively utilised for hybrid rice seed production. Realising fully well the potential of seed industry, enough encouragement is given to the seed sectors to take up hybrid seed production. Now the seed industry has fully geared to meet the seed requirement and what it needs is the demand which has to be created by well organised transfer of technological activities.
The present book provides an updated introduction to seed production of field crops. It presents a straightforward exploration of the seed as a biological system, from its origin to its ultimate determination, and examines the fundamentals of how seeds are produced, conditioned, evaluated, and distributed in modern agriculture. This book contains chapters on seed quality and seed treatment which reflects the advances made in new physiological and molecular biology techniques. This book gives advanced undergraduate students the current state of the art and future trends in seed technology. Newcomers to the field will also benefit from the volume's straightforward style and in-depth treatment of the subject.
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