Contents

1. Principles of Plant Breeding
2. Economic Botany
3. Modes of Reproduction
4. Crop Systematics
5. Plant Genetic Resources
6. Polygenic Inheritance
7. Breeding Methodologies
8. Heterosis and Inbreeding Depression
9. Polyploidy
10. Mutation Breeding
11. Statistics in Relation to Genetics and Plant Breeding
12. Practical Plant Breeding
13. (a) Eminent Plant Scientists (b) Objective Type Questions

Glossary

Indian Crop Improvement Institutes

International Agricultural Research Centres

ICAR Awards

Index