Maize Breeding: Protein Quality & Disease Resistance, R.P. Publications, 9789382398332

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Maize Breeding: Protein Quality & Disease Resistance

Rahul Kumar (Author)

Synopsis

The book begins with the description on maize, their flower biology, wild relatives, heterosis, inbreeding depression and production technology. The detail about banded leaf and sheath blight disease in maize deals with the BLSB symptoms, genetics and breeding methods. Finally the book presents a riview on breeding method and improvement of the 'Quality Protein Maize' especially with reference to the development of QPM using market assisted backcross breding. This comprehensive and profusely illustrated text will be highly valuable to the students of plant breeding, plant pathology and biotechnology at all levels.

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About the author

Rahul Kumar

Dr. Rahul Kumar, author of the book working as Associate Professor at Eternal University, Himanchal Pradesh. He obtained his Pd.D. degree from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar. As a faculty, he taught variety of courses and made progress in his researches. His general research interest are in the field of Plant Genomics. Transfer of Useful variability from related species of various crop plants through wide hybridization, molecular cytogenetics, molecular mapping, Use of marker assisted selection of economical traits for segregation population to faasten breeding objectives. Functional gennomics of crops using reverse genetic approaches for cloning of genes of economic importance.

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