Plant Breeding : Das, L.D.V

The book has been carefully planned for the requirement of plant breeders and postgraduate students in botany or agricultural botany. It starts simply with plant breeding concepts of ideotype and gradually advances to genotype x environment interaction, stress and drought conditions and various problems in the breeding strategy in later chapters. The book also deals with fundamental study like plant genetics resources and interspecific crosses including evolution of polyploid crops. With the advancement of science, the book also deals further with somaclonal variation, genetics manipulation, gene transfers and also nucleic acid hybridization. The RFLP technique is gaining importance now a days and hence a detailed account has been given in the last chapter.