Practical Manual on Fundamentals of Plant Breeding - Softcover
- Publication date2021
- ISBN 10 8194899389
- ISBN 13 9788194899389
- BindingPaperback
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Practical Manual on Fundamentals of Plant Breeding
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New Delhi Publishers
(2021)
ISBN 10: 8194899389
ISBN 13: 9788194899389
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. Plant breeding is the purposeful manipulation of plant species in order to create desired genotypes and phenotypes by improving the genetic makeup of crop plants in relation to their economic use. This manipulation involves either controlled pollination, genetic engineering, or both, followed by artificial selection of progeny. In its primitive form, plant breeding started after the invention of agriculture during which plants were transformed from being independent, wild progenitors, to fully dependent (on humans) and domesticated varieties. During this period, humans also discovered the time-honored and most basic plant breeding technique 'selection', the art of discriminating among biological variation in a population to identify and pick desirable variants. Selection implies the existence of variability. The selection was based solely on the intuition, skill, and judgment of the operator. Needless to say, this form of selection is practiced to date by farmers, where they save seed from the best-looking plants or the most desirable fruit for planting the next season. Seller Inventory # 136225A
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