Breeding of Ornamental Crops

BREEDING OF ORNAMENTAL CROPS speaks about evolution and genetic resources of flowers and ornamental crops, Biosynthetic pathways of various floral pigments, scent and aroma and its genetics have been described which will help in manipulation of these traits. Considering that the interspecific and intergeneric hybridization has played an important role in the evolution of these 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 undergraduate and post-graduate students, teachers and researchers in the field of ornamental crops breeding. KEY FEATURES: * Genetics of flower initiation and characteristics of cut flowers have been discussed * Breeding methods - traditional as well as biotechnological for improvement of vegetative propagated and seed propagated flower crops have been described * Chimeras, its production (spontaneous/induced) and steps involved in the isolation of stable periclinal chimera have been explained * Mutation breeding methods applied in vegetative propagated crops have been discussed * Detailed discussion on Micropropagation, tissue culture techniques for mass multiplication, plants for landscaping.