Domestication of plants is done in order to increase yield, improve diseases
resistance and drought tolerance, ease harvest and to improve the taste and
nutritional value and many other characteristics. Centuries of careful selection
and breeding have had enormous effects on the characteristics of crop plants.
Plant breeders use greenhouses and other techniques to get as many as three
generations of plants per year so that they can make improvements all the more
quickly. This book explores innovative methods for breeding new varieties of
major crops with resistance to environmental stresses that limit crop production
worldwide. It provides the basic principles and techniques of agricultural
breeding and examine