Principles of Plant Breeding and Genetics in Crop Production

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Plant breeding, it is an application of genetic principles to produce plants that are more useful to humans. People caused changes in the plants that were used for agriculture and, in turn, those new plant types allowed changes in human populations to take place. Plants yielding more generous harvests freed some of the people's time for developing art, handcrafting, and science, eventually leading to modern human life as we know it. Plant breeding is accomplished by selecting plants found to be economically or aesthetically desirable, first by controlling the mating of selected individuals, and then by selecting certain individuals among the progeny. This text book “Principles of Plant Breeding and Genetics in Crop Production” aim to gather together, in an integrated manner, information on the physiology and technology of contemporary plant breeding. The approach is multidisciplinary, with special emphasis being placed on the application of theoretical knowledge to the solution of practical problems concerned with the improvement of crop yield through the breeding of plants better suited to their environment. The role of modern techniques, such as tissue culture and induced mutation are discussed in detail.