Breeding of Horticultural Crops: Principles and Practices

Description

The book fully expanded edition has been specially written with the hope that it may provide a satisfactory guidance for students of agriculture and horticulture including applied botany and also for the horticultural enthusiasts. More emphasis has been given in this book to explain the principles and methods of breeding of important Horticulture Crops and also the achievements made in these crops in the development of new cultivars. The book has been designed with the main consideration to serve a dual purpose of being a text and reference. Keeping this thing in mind the entire book has been divided into three major chapters. The first chapter deals with the principles and methods of breeding adopted in horticultural crops propagated both sexually and asexually. The second chapter deals with the achievements in breeding of perennial horticultural crops. The third chapter covers achievements made in breeding of annual horticultural crops.