Distant Hybridization in Horticultural Crops

M.R. Dinesh and M. Sankaran

ISBN 10: 9351248291 / ISBN 13: 9789351248293

Published by Daya Publishing House, 2017

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Contents: Foreword.Preface. 1. An Overview of Distant Hybridization in Horticultural Crops/M.Sankaran and M.R. Dinesh. 2. Allied Species Utilization in Fruit Crop Improvement Way Forward/S. H. Jalikop. 3. Distant Hybridization for Improvement of Temperate Fruits and Nuts/Nazeer Ahmed, A.K.Gupta, K.L. Kumawat and J.I. Mir. 4. Intergeneric Hybrdization in Papaya/K. Soorianathasundaram. 5. Interspecific Hybridization in Grapes/G.S.Karibasappa. 6. Improvement Possibilities Through Species Utilization in Banana/T.N.Balamohan and G.Karunakaran. 7. Intergeneric Hybridization of Carica papaya and Vasconcellea cauliflora/R. Jayavalli and T. N. Balamohan. 8. Distant Hybridization in Coffee Improvement in India/N.S. Prakash, Jeena Devasia, V.B. Sureshkumar and Y. Raghuramulu. 9. Prospects of Interspecific Hybrids in Oil Palm/R.K. Mathur, K. Sunilkumar and P. Murugesan. 10. Wild Species Utilization in Vegetable Crops Improvement/Dutta O.P., Sadashiva A.T., K.Madhavi Reddy and M. Pitchimuthu. 11. Wide Hybridisation in Eggplant (Solanum spp.)/Padmini, K, Sadashiva, A.T, Singh, T.H and Dhananjay. V. Naik. 12. Wide Hybridization in the Genus Abelmoschus Medikus/Joseph John K, Roy YC, M Latha and KV Bhat. 13. Onion and Garlic Improvement Through Species Utilization/Vijay Mahajan, Ashwini Benke, S. Anandhan and Jai Gopal. 14. Distant Hybridization and Tropical Tuber Crops: Designing for Adaptive Food-nutrition and Livelihood/Archana Mukherjee. 15. Hybridizing Genetically Distant Wild and Cultivated Types for Crop Improvement in Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera Dunal)/D.H Sukanya. 16. Pollen Cryopreservation in Distant Hybridization/Rajasekharan P.E and S. Ganeshan. 17. Using Bees for Crop Improvement/V.V. Belavadi. 18. Prospects, Opportunities and Concerns for Commercialization. Global climate is considered to be biggest challenge to the agricultural/horticultural scientists because of the need for development of climate resilient crop varieties. It has also been felt that there is a need to double the present production of fruits and vegetables to over 500 million by 2050 and to meet the growing demand of all other horticultural commodities. The presence of narrow genetic base in cultivated species is one of the major impediments for the plant breeder to develop variety/varieties for wide adaptability and yield. Hence, the utilization of wild relatives and land races in breeding programmes is the need of hour as the reservoirs of potential genes, which can be transferred to the cultivated species through hybridization. Several studies have proved that there is pre and post fertilization barriers which can be overcome through techniques such as embryo rescue, protoplast fusion, alien addition lines, alien substitution lines and ploidy manipulations, etc. The wide hybridization has been proved to be a potential method for developing many stable varieties, which can withstand various biotic and abiotic stresses. Developed and commercialized several intergeneric and interspecific hybrids in fruits, vegetables, flowers, plantation crops medicinal and aromatic plants across the globe. This book would be a valuable documents to the policy makers, researchers and more precisely to the students who are interested in pursuing the higher studies in the field of distant hybridization in horticultural crops. (jacket).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Distant Hybridization in Horticultural Crops
• Publisher: Daya Publishing House
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9351248291
• ISBN 13: 9789351248293
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Global climate is considered to be biggest challenge to the agricultural/horticultural scientists because of the need for development of climate resilient crop varieties. It has also been felt that there is a need to double the present production of fruits and vegetables to over 500 million by 2050 and to meet the growing demand of all other horticultural commodities. The presence of narrow genetic base in cultivated species is one of the major impediments for the plant breeder to develop variety/varieties for wide adaptability and yield. Hence, the utilization of wild relatives and land races in breeding programmes is the need of hour as the reservoirs of potential genes, which can be transferred to the cultivated species through hybridization. Several studies have proved that there is pre and post fertilization barriers which can be overcome through techniques such as embryo rescue, protoplast fusion, alien addition lines, alien substitution lines and ploidy manipulations, etc. The wide hybridization has been proved to be a potential method for developing many stable varieties, which can withstand various biotic and abiotic stresses. Developed and commercialized several intergeneric and interspecific hybrids in fruits, vegetables, flowers, plantation crops medicinal and aromatic plants across the globe. This book would be a valuable documents to the policy makers, researchers and more precisely to the students who are interested in pursuing the higher studies in the field of distant hybridization in horticultural crops.