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PLANT BREEDING (Genetic Principles and Methodologies)
Dr. Pratik Satya
First Published: 2012
Second Edition: 2024
Reprints: 1
ISBN: 978-93-94107-23-6
Pages: 610

CONTENTS

Section I : INTRODUCTION
- Chapter 1 : Plant Breeding - Origin, Role and Impact
- Chapter 2 : Origin and Domestication of Crop Plants
- Chapter 3 : Reproduction and Reproductive Barriers in Higher Plants
- Chapter 4 : Plant Genetic Resources (PGR) - Source Population of Plant Breeding

Section II : GENETIC PRINCIPLES OF PLANT BREEDING
- Chapter 5 : Genetic Principles Applied in Plant Breeding
- Chapter 6 : Genetic Analysis of Quantitative Characters
- Chapter 7 : Statistical Tests and Designs in Plant Breeding
- Chapter 8 : Heritability
- Chapter 9 : Principles of Selection
- Chapter 10 : Inbreeding Depression and Heterosis
- Chapter 11 : Genotype by Environment Interaction

Section III : BREEDING METHODS
- Chapter 12 : Basic Breeding Methods for Self-pollinated Crops
- Chapter 13 : Basic Breeding Methods for Cross-Pollinated Crops
- Chapter 14 : Breeding Methods for Perennial Crop and Non-crop Species
- Chapter 15 : Breeding Methods for Clonal Crops: Sexual Hybridization and Polyploidy
- Chapter 16 : Breeding for Hybrid Cultivar Development
- Chapter 17 : Wide Hybridization for Crop Improvement
- Chapter 18 : Mutation Breeding
- Chapter 19 : Plant Tissue and Cell Culture for in Vitro Plant Breeding
- Chapter 20 : Tools of Molecular Breeding – Molecular Markers
- Chapter 21 : QTL Mapping and Association Analysis
- Chapter 22 : Application of Genomics in Plant Breeding

Section IV : NEW AVENUES AND APPROACHES IN PLANT BREEDING
- Chapter 23 : Plant Genetic Engineering
- Chapter 24 : Participatory Plant Breeding
- Chapter 25 : Aplication of Next Generation Sequencing in Plant Breeding
- Chapter 26 : Rapid Generation advance for Plant Breeding
- Chapter 27 : Application of Genome Editing in Plant Breeding

Section V : VARIETY RELEASE AND PROTECTION 
- Chapter 28 : Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Breeding

APPENDICES
- Appendix I : Textbooks Related to Plant Breeding
- Appendix II : CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) Institutes
- Appendix III : International and National Institues related to plant breeding and plant genetic resource management
- Appendix IV : Major Professional Societies related to plant breeding
- Appendix V : Some statistical software for analysis of plant breeding experiments
- Appendix VI : Software for molecular mapping and genetic diversity analysis
- Appendix VII : Journals related to Plant Genetics and Plant Breeding
- Index

ABOUT THE BOOK: This book is meant for NEP, ICAR & UGC Syllabus for B.Sc. and M.Sc. students. Plant Breeding is perhaps the oldest agricultural technology starting from the dawn of civilization. Yet, we started to understand the science behind the plant breeding practices only about 125 years ago, with the rediscovery of Mendelian inheritance. This book has tried to capture a glimpse of the journey with an objective to understand the genetic basis of plant breeding. The second edition of the book improves upon the first edition in many aspects comprising of 28 chapters classified under five sections. The first section includes four chapters, which give an outline of plant breeding, origin and domestication of crops, reproductive mechanisms and plant genetic diversity. The six chapters of the second section elaborates the genetic principles behind plant breeding, including genetic basis of inheritance, statistical designs, principles of selection, inbreeding, heterosis and genotype-by-environment interaction. In the third section, conventional and molecular plant breeding methods have been discussed in detail, including QTL mapping and genomics. The fourth section discusses about the new plant breeding tools, such as genetic engineering, next generation sequencing technologies as well as participatory plant breeding. The book contains Biological Sciences Catalogue 28 numerous figures, tables and photographs for better understanding and clarity of the concepts along with multiple choice questions to help the students prepare for competitive examinations.

The content of the books to a great extent follows the syllabi of various courses under B.Sc. (Agriculture), B.Sc. (Botany), M.Sc. (Agriculture), M.Sc. (Genetics and Plant Breeding) drafted under the new education policy (NEP). Although it is a primary text book for B.Sc. and M.Sc. students who encounter plant breeding as a subject, it can be useful for those who want to pursue a career in related disciplines and to the general readers having interest in plant breeding process.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. Pratik Satya is a Principal Scientist in Crop Improvement Division of ICAR-Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres, Kolkata, India. He has attained his Masters and Ph.D. in Genetics from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi with outstanding academic records. He has served previously in Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, West Bengal, India as a scientist for four years and as Head, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding for about three years. He is currently working on varietal development and genomic research on fibre crops and has developed five jute varieties as principal breeder. Dr. Satya has authored over sixty research publications in reputed international and national research journals and contributed over thirty book chapters published by reputed international publishers like Springer, CRC Press, Elsevier, CAB International etc. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the discipline of genetics and plant breeding at IARIKolkata hub at ICAR-CRIJAF, Barrackpore, West Bengal.