Plant breeding - Analysis and exploitation of variation

Abstract

Text books on Plant Breeding by Indian authors which rigrously enunciate the principles of state of the art statistical and biometrical methods for analysing quantitative genetic variation are rather rare. The present book by Darbeshwar Roy under review is an unique effort in this direction. The book is divided into 36 chapters comprehensively covering various aspects of plant breeding. The first chapter deals with biochemistry of the gene in brief followed by description of characters related to plant productivity, plant physiological concepts of photosynthesis, respiration, translocation and characters associated with resistance to abiotic stresses.