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Plant Breeding
. Ed(S): Jain, H.K.; Kharkwal, M.C.
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Description for Plant Breeding
Hardback. Mendel's laws of biological inheritance have had their greatest economic impact in the development of the science of plant breeding. This book documents the development of methods of plant breeding beginning with simple hybridization and selection techniques moving to complex procedures following advances in quantitative and molecular genetics. Editor(s): Jain, H.K.; Kharkwal, M.C. Num Pages: 811 pages, biography. BIC Classification: TV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1974.
The Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding was established in 1941 in recognition of the growing contribution of improved crop varieties to the country's agriculture. Scientific plant breeding had started inIndia soon after the rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity. The Indian Agricultural Research Institute set up in 1905 and a number of Agricultural Colleges in different parts of the country carried out some of the earliest work mostly inthe form of pure-line selections. In subsequent years, hybridization programmes in crops like wheat, rice, oilseeds, grain legumes, sugarcane and cotton yielded a large number of improved cultivars with significantly ... Read more
The Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding was established in 1941 in recognition of the growing contribution of improved crop varieties to the country's agriculture. Scientific plant breeding had started inIndia soon after the rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity. The Indian Agricultural Research Institute set up in 1905 and a number of Agricultural Colleges in different parts of the country carried out some of the earliest work mostly inthe form of pure-line selections. In subsequent years, hybridization programmes in crops like wheat, rice, oilseeds, grain legumes, sugarcane and cotton yielded a large number of improved cultivars with significantly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
811
Condition
New
Number of Pages
811
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402019814
SKU
V9781402019814
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99-15
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