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It is our profound pleasure and pride, as the time is now ripe, to bring out a revised and updated edition of the book, which has been greatly metamorphosed with addition of new chapter on Basic Concepts of Plant Science, by which the student can get a solid foundation for understanding. The broad plan essentially remains the same as the first edition. In order to cater to the long-felt need of the students, this has been made possible on our part due to numerous feedbacks and responses received from many readers via e-mails, phone calls and postal correspondences. The enthusiasms exhibited by such readers has prompted us to bring out this newer edition, which, we hope, will no doubt fill the gap that have possibly been created in the earlier one. We will also not spare all our readers without expressing our thanks to them, who have given their precious time by going through the book and giving valuable suggestions and we wish them to continue to do so for the betterment of the book. The cover design of the book has been purposefully changed to give it a new look distinguishable from the first edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface

Syllabus

Section - 1

PLANT BREEDING

1. History

2. Plant Breeding Introduction

3. Domestication and Germplasm Conservation

4. Plant Introduction

5. Cultivars

6. Modes of Reproduction

7. Male Sterility and Self Incompatibility (SI)

8. Classification of Plant Breeding Methods

9. Breeding Populations

10. Selection

11. Natural Selection

12. Qualitative and Quantitative Characters

13. Mutation Breeding

14. Chimera

15. Breeding for Disease Resistance

16. Ideotype Breeding

17. Harvest Index (HI)

18. Heterosis Breeding

19. Breeding High Lysine Content of Grain

20. Inbreeding Depression

21. Synthetic Variety, Composite Variety and Multi Lines

22. Breeding Approaches for Varietal Maintenance

23. Technique Used in Identification of Crop Varieties

24. Rice

25. Maize

26. Wheat

27. Barley

28. Cotton

29. Oat

Contents XI

30. Sorghum

31. Pearl Millet / Bajra

32. Sugarcane

33. Rapeseed and Mustard

34. Chickpea/ Bengal Gram

35. Cowpea

36. Pigeonpea / Red Gram / Arhar / Tur

37. Hybrid Wheat and Rice

38. Important Points

Section - 2

GENETICS

1. Definitions

2. Gregor Johann Mendel’s Life

3. Mendel’s Laws of Inheritance

4. Back Cross and Test Cross

5. Cytoplasmic Inheritance

6. Types of Dominance

7. Linkage

8. Inheritance of Sex Limited / Sex-Influenced / Sex Linked Traits

9. Penetrance and Expressivity

10. Sex Determination

11. Genic Balance Theory of Sex Determination

12. Hardy-Weinberg Principle

13. Prokaryotic Cell and Eukaryotic Cell

14. Functions of Cell Organs

15. Cell Division

16. Special Type of Chromosomes

17. DNA [Deoxy Ribose Nucleic Acid]

18. RNA [Ribose Nucleic Acid]

19. Operon Concept

Section - 3

SEED TECHNOLOGY

1. Seed Technology and Intellectual Property Rights

Section - 4

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

1. The United Nations (UN) Summit

2. WIPO and UPOV Convention

3. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

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4. PPV and FR ACT-2001, PBR and Farmers Rights

5. Geographical Indications (GI)

6. World Trade Organisation (WTO)

7. Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)

8. The General Agreement on Trade In Services (GATS)

9. Paris Agreement

10. Protocol

11. UNCED and UNFCCC

12. Ramsar Convention

13. Biological Diversity

14. Patent

15. Trade Mark

16. Trade Secret

Section - 5

STATISTICS

1. Introduction

2. Measures of Central Tendency

3. Measures of Dispersion

4. Experimental Design

5. Tests

6. Distributions

7. Critical Region

8. Test Statistics

9. Hypothesis

10. Error

11. Correlation

12. Regression

Section - 6

PLANT PATHOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY

1. Introduction to Plant Pathology and Microbiology

2. History

3. Disease Terminology

4. Diseases With Their Primary and Secondary Source of Infection (PSI & SSI)

5. Field Crop Diseases

6. Horticultural Crops Diseases

7. Viral Disease

8. Mycoplasma / Phytoplasma Diseases

9. Bacterial Diseases

Contents xiii

10. Disease Caused by Nematodes

11. Important Points

Section - 7

AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

1. Definitions

2. Plant Tissue Culture

3. Somatic Hybridization

4. Cybrid and Artificial Seed / Synthetic Seed

5. Sterilization Techniques

6. Genetic Engineering

7. Gene Transfer

8. PCR – Technology and DNA Finger Printing

9. Vectors

10. Markers

11. Protein and Carbohydrates Tests

12. Sequencing Techniques

13. Blotting Techniques

14. DNA Library/ Gene Library

Section - 8

FATHER / FOUNDERS OF DIFFERENT FIELDS

1. Father / Founders of Different Fields

Section - 9

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

Previously Asked Questions of Plant Sciences (Memory Based)

Model Paper - 1

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