Genetics and plant breeding/
L. D. Vijendra Das.
- 2nd ed.
- New Delhi: New age international publishers, 2005.
- xvi, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
GENETICS 1 Mendel's Experiments and Principles of Inheritance 2 Multiple Allelism: Multiple Alleles 3 Multiple Factor Hypothesis 4 Linkage and Recombination 5 Sex Chromosome in Man, Drosophila and Melandrium 6 Maternal Influence on Inheritance 7 Alterations in Genetic Make Up-Changes at Genetic Level 8 Alterations in Genetic Make Up-Changes in Chromosome Structure 9 Alterations in Genetic Make Up-Changes in Chromosome Number 10 Types of Plant Reproduction: Vegetative, Apomixis and Sexual 11 Methods of Plant Improvement: Pure Line and Mass Selection 12 Mutations as Methods of Plant Improvement 13 Laboratory Exercises
PLANT BREEDING 1 Plant Type Concept 2 Genotype X Envrionment Interaction and Stability Nature 3 Response of Genotypes to Differenct Stress Condition 4 Stresses Due to Drought, Cold Salinity and Alkalinity 5 Development of Resistant Varieties to Drought 6 Plant Genetic Resources 7 Utilization of Wild Species in Crop Improvement 8 Interspecific Crosses 9 Genome Analysis and Evolution of Polyploid Crops 10 Cytoplasmic-Genic Male Sterility Systems in Hybrid Seed Production 11 Somaclonal Variation in Crop Improvement 12 Anther Culture and its Role in Crop Improvement 13 Asexula Propagation of Relevance to Mutation Breeding 14 Mutation Breeding for Root and Tuber Crops 15 Genetic Manipulation and Gene Transfers in Plants and Animals 16 Protoplast Fusion and Somatic Hybridization 17 Nuleic Acid Hybridization 18 FRLP in Plant Breeding