Basic Concepts of Plant Science

Contents: I. Plant Breeding: 1. History. 2. Plant Breeding Introduction. 3. Domestication and Germplasm Conservation. 4. Plant Introduction. 5. Modes of Reproduction. 6. Male Sterility and Self Incompatibility (SI). 7. Selection. 8. Mutation Breeding. 9. Breeding for Disease Resistance. 10. Ideotype Breeding. 11. Heterosis Breeding. 12. Inbreeding Depression. 13. Important Points. II. 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. Sex Limited Characters/Sex-Influenced Characters. 9. Genic Balance Theory of Sex Determination. 10. Hardy-Weinberg Principle. 11. Prokaryotic Cell and Eukaryotic Cell. 12. Functions of Cell Organs. 13. Cell Division. 14. Special Type of Chromosomes. 15. DNA [Deoxy Ribose Nucleic Acid. 16. RNA [Ribose Nucleic Acid. 17. Operon Concept. III. Seed Technology and Intellectual Property Rights: 1. Seed Technology and Intellectual Property Rights. IV. 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. V. Plant Pathology and Microbiology: 1. Introduction to Plant Pathology and Microbiology. 2. History. 3. Disease Terminology. 4. Diseases with their Primary & Secondary Source of Infection (PSI & SSI). 5. Field Crop Diseases. 6. Horticultural Crops Diseases. 7. Viral Disease. 8. Mycoplasma/Phytoplasma Diseases. 9. Bacterial Diseases. 10. Disease Caused by Nematodes. 11. Important Points. VI. 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. VII. Father/Founders of Different Fields: 1. Father/Founders of Different Fields. VIII. Multiple Choice Questions: Previously asked Questions of Plant Sciences (Memory Based). Model Paper 1 to 9. References. Basic Concepts of Plant Science covers all the important chapters of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Plant Pathology, Microbiology, Seed Science and Technology, IPR, Statistics and Agriculture Biotechnology. Tables provide information about history of all the subjects of plant science. In order to have better understanding of the topic figures have been incorporated (wherever required). Statistics and Biotechnology have been discussed in detail. The chapters are arranged in the order of increasing technical complexity. The book contains about 100 fill in the blanks, 500 MCQs and memory based questions (from previous years ICAR examinations with their answers), hence it is a complete book on Plant Science. (jacket).…