Breeding Of Vegetable Crops

This book contains 25 chapters(excluding question bank) of which first three chapters goesto very basic information on vegetables like importance of vegetable crops, their position in plants classification system, breedingmethods and pollination control and various vegetable genetic resource utilised for improvement. Next it covers important vegetable cropssuch astomato, chilli, capsicum, onion, potato, brinjal, cucumber, carrot, bhendi, cabbage, cauliflower, cucurbits, radish, squash and pumpkin, water melon. Then it also covers other relevant chapters such as hybridization techniques in vegetables, polyploidy breeding, mutation breeding , plant descriptorsin vegetable breeding ,seed production techniquesin vegetables, screening techniquesfor disease, insect and abiotic stress.