Plant Breeding Principles Methods

PLANT BREEDING Principles and Methods B.D. Singh, Professor Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding Bana^s Hindu University KftbYANI PUBbISHBRS new cam - tmmmsR Tp.. Nlkbli Nisfelth and Pushpa KALYANI PUBLISHERS H.O.: 1/1, Rajinder Nagar, Ludhiaoa-J4008. j 9.0,; 4863/2B, Bharat Ram Road, 24, Dsryagaaj, New Delhi*! 10 002. © 1983, B.D. SINGH Fourth Edition 199Reprinted 199ISBN 81*7096-308-7 PRINTED IN INDIA At Kalyani Printings, B-15, Sector 8, NOIDA and published by Mrs. Usha Raj Kumar for Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi- 1 10 00Foreword The contributions made by Indian plant breeders during the last three decades are well known to the outside world. It may be favourably compared with achievements of plant breeders in any other country. But the work of Indian plant breeders has not been compiled at one place so that students of plant breeding in India may have an easy access to it. Indian students hardly find a suitable textbook on plant breeding except those written by Allard; Elliot; Briggs and Knowels; Hayes, Immer and Smith; and Simmonds, which were never written for Indian conditions. Only two text books relate particularly to the Indian context: these are ‘Breeding of Asian Field Crops’ by Poehlman and Borthakur and ‘Elementary Principles of Plant Breeding’ By Chaudhari. The first work gives an excellent cropwise treatment of breeding methods used and salien…