Breeding of Fruit Crops

BREEDING OF FRUIT CROPS discusses evolution of various fruit crops and their genetic resources. Considering that the interspecific hybridization has played an important role in the evolution of fruit crops and further that commercial cultivars have been developed through wide hybridization, methods for overcoming pre- and post-zygotic barriers in hybridization have been described which will guide breeders to design hybridization program accordingly. This book will be useful to both undergraduate and post-graduate students as well as teachers and researchers in the field of fruit breeding. KEY FEATURES: • Conventional breeding methods and biotechnological methods for improvement of fruit crops have been described. • Hybridization and evaluation techniques in various fruit crops have been described. • Improving cultivar through use of rootstock described • Breeding method for adaptability to particular climate is discussed. • Mutation breeding methods applied in improvement of vegetatively propagated fruit crops and development of seedless fruit have been described. • Micropropagation and tissue culture techniques for mass multiplication of virus-free cultivars have been described.