Overview of reproductive options in plants
5.3 Types of reproduction
5.4 Sexual reproduction
5.5 What is autogamy?
5.6 Genotype conversion programs
5.7 Artificial pollination control techniques
5.8 What is allogamy?
5.9 Mendelian concepts relating to the reproductive system
5.10 Complex inheritance
Key references and suggested reading
Outcomes assessment
6 Hybridization
6.1 Concept of gene transfer and hybridization
6.2 Applications of crossing in plant breeding
6.3 Artificial hybridization
6.4 Artificial pollination control techniques
6.5 Flower and flowering issues in hybridization
6.6 Emasculation
6.7 Pollination
6.8 Number of F1 crosses to make
6.9 Genetic issues in hybridization
6.10 Types of populations generated through hybridization
6.11 Wide crosses
6.12 Issue of reproductive isolation barriers
6.13 Overcoming challenges of reproductive barriers
6.14 Bridge crosses
Key references and suggested reading
Internet resources
Outcomes assessment
7 Clonal propagation and in vitro culture
7.1 What is a clone?
7.2 Clones, inbred lines, and pure lines
7.3 Categories of clonally propagated species based on economic use
7.4 Categories of clonally propagated species for breeding purposes
7.5 Types of clonal propagation
7.6 Importance of clonal propagation in plant breeding
7.7 Breeding implications of clonal propagation
7.8 Genetic Issues in Clonal Breeding
7.9 Breeding approaches used in clonal species
7.10 Natural propagation
7.11 In vitro culture
7.12 Micropropagation
7.13 Concept of totipotency
7.14 Somaclonal variation
7.15 Apomixis
7.16 Other tissue culture applications
7.17 Production of haploids
7.18 Germplasm preservation
Key references and suggested reading
Internet resources
Outcomes assessment
9 Section 4: Germplasm for breeding 8 Variation: types, origin, and scale 8.1 Classifying plants 8.2 Rules of classification of plants 8.3 Operational classification systems 8.4 Types of variation among plants 8.5 Origins of genetic variability 8.6 Biotechnology for creating genetic variability 8.7 Scale of variability Key references and suggested reading Outcomes assessment 9 Plant domestication 9.1 The concept of evolution 9.2 What is domestication? 9.3 Evolution versus domestication 9.4 Conscious selection versus unconscious selection 9.5 Patterns of plant domestication 9.6 Centers of plant domestication 9.7 Roll call of domesticated plants 9.8 Changes accompanying domestication 9.9 Genetic bottleneck 9.10 Tempo of domestication 9.11 Genetic architecture and domestication 9.12 Models of domestication
