Advances and Current Techniques in Plant Breeding

Goals of plant breeding.

Goals of plant breeding; Plant introduction and germplasm collections; Centers of genetic diversity and origin of cultivated plants; Genetic basis of selection: pure line theory; quantitative inheritance and heritability; Apomixis; incompatibility and sterility; Haploidy and polyploidy and their significance in plant breeding; Uses of anueploids in plant breeding; Breeding methods for self and cross-fertilized crop species; Backcross breeding; mutation breeding; resistance breeding for diseases; pests and drought; Quality breeding; seed testing and certification; Cell fusion and anther culture in plant breeding; Crop domestication and utilization in medicine