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New Age International (P) Ltd., Publishers Genetics And Plant Breeding by Dr. L.D. Vijendra Das
The book has been carefully planned for the requirement of students of botany or agricultural botany and also to the plant breeders. The book covers UGC syllabus in a detailed manner. The first part of the book deals with genetics, starting with Mendelian experiments and principles. The subsequent chapters like multiple allelism, multiple factor hypothesis, linkage, sex chromosomes, maternal influence, alterations in genetic make up, types of plant reproduction, methods of plant improvement, mutations, laboratory exercises have been dealt in details.
The second part 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 genetic resources and inter specific crosses including evolution of polyploid crops. With the advancement of science, the book also deals further with somaclonal variation, genetic manipulation, gene transfers and also nucleic acid hybridization. The RFLP technique is gaining importance nowadays and hence a detailed account has been given in the last chapter.