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Fundamentals of Field Crop Breeding

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Editors:
  1. Devendra Kumar Yadava

    1. Crop Science Division, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Delhi, India

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  2. Harsh Kumar Dikshit

    1. Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Delhi, India

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  3. Gyan Prakash Mishra

    1. Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Delhi, India

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  4. Shailesh Tripathi

    1. Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Delhi, India

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  • Extensive compilation of breeding procedures and techniques for all the major field crops

  • Presents status of breeding practices in each crop with strategies for breeding climate resilient crop varieties

  • Complete coverage of plant breeding courses taught across the globe

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Breeding Field Crops: History, Current Status and Introspections

    • K. K. Vinod, S. Gopala Krishnan, Manoranjan Senapati, Ashok Kumar Singh
    Pages 1-38

  3. Wheat Breeding

    • Gopalareddy Krishnappa, Bhudeva Singh Tyagi, Vikas Gupta, Arun Gupta, Karnam Venkatesh, Umesh R. Kamble et al.
    Pages 39-111

  4. Rice Breeding

    • S. Gopala Krishnan, K. K. Vinod, Prolay K. Bhowmick, Haritha Bollinedi, Ranjth K. Ellur, Rakesh Seth et al.
    Pages 113-220

  5. Maize Breeding

    • Firoz Hossain, Vignesh Muthusamy, Jayant S. Bhat, Rajkumar U. Zunjare, Santosh Kumar, Nitish R. Prakash et al.
    Pages 221-258

  6. Barley Breeding

    • Santosh Kumar Bishnoi, Madhu Patial, Chuni Lal, Ramesh Pal Singh Verma
    Pages 259-308

  7. Pearl Millet Breeding

    • C. Tara Satyavathi, S. Mukesh Sankar, Sumer Pal Singh, Chandan Kapoor, S. L. Soumya, Tripti Singhal
    Pages 309-366

  8. Sorghum Breeding

    • Prabhakar, R. Madhusudhana, C. Aruna
    Pages 367-447

  9. Small Millets Breeding

    • Vilas A. Tonapi, K. N. Ganapathy, K. Hariprasanna, B. Venkatesh Bhat, B. Amasiddha, S. Avinash et al.
    Pages 449-497

  10. Sugarcane Breeding

    • Bakshi Ram, R. Karuppaiyan, G. Hemaprabha
    Pages 499-570

  11. Jute Breeding

    • C. S. Kar, Pratik Satya, Gouranga Kar
    Pages 571-607

  12. Cotton Breeding

    • Vijay N. Waghmare
    Pages 609-676

  13. Maintenance Breeding of Pusa Basmati Varieties

    • Rakesh Seth, A. K. Singh, S. Gopala Krishnan
    Pages 677-701

  14. Maintenance Breeding

    • R. N. Yadav, Priya Ranjan Kumar, Zakir Hussain, Sangita Yadav, Sandeep K. Lal, Atul Kumar et al.
    Pages 703-744

  15. Efficient Breeding of Crop Plants

    • Pawan L. Kulwal, Reyazul Rouf Mir, Rajeev K. Varshney
    Pages 745-777

  16. Brassica Breeding

    • Devendra Kumar Yadava, Yashpal, Navinder Saini, Joghee Nanjundan, Sujata Vasudev
    Pages 779-835

  17. Groundnut Breeding

    • T. Radhakrishnan, Praveen Kona, B. C. Ajay, Narendra Kumar
    Pages 837-906

  18. Soybean Breeding

    • Anita Rani, Vineet Kumar
    Pages 907-944

  19. Castor Breeding

    • S. Senthilvel, T. Manjunatha, C. Lavanya
    Pages 945-970

  20. Sunflower Breeding

    • H. P. Meena, M. Sujatha
    Pages 971-1008
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About this book

This book is an advanced textbook and a reference book for the post-graduate plant-breeding students and the plant breeders. It consolidates fundamental concepts and also the latest advances in plant-breeding practices including development in crop genomics. It contains crop wise explanation on origin, reproduction, genetics of yield contributing traits, biotic and abiotic stresses, nutritional improvement and crop specific plant-breeding procedures and techniques. The chapters are planned to describe crop-focused breeding procedure for the major crop plants as per their economic importance. The recent developments in breeding of field crops have been reported. The recent progress made in mapping traits of economic importance has been critically reviewed for each crop. The progress made in markers assisted selected in few crops has been summarized. This book bridges the knowledge gap and bring to the researchers and students information on modern breeding tools for developing biotic and abiotic stress tolerant, climate resilient and micronutrient rich varieties of field crops. The chapters in book are contributed by experienced Plant Breeders.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Crop Science Division, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Delhi, India

    Devendra Kumar Yadava

  • Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Delhi, India

    Harsh Kumar Dikshit, Gyan Prakash Mishra, Shailesh Tripathi

About the editors

Dr. Devendra Kumar Yadava is serving as ADG Seeds, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi. Breeder for last 25 years including 19 years at Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), contributed in the development and release of 21 varieties (mustard 18; pulses 3) including early maturing mustard varieties viz. Pusa Mustard 25, 27, 28, 26 and RGN 145 which have provided greater choice to farmers under changing climatic scenario. Bred six low erucic acid varieties viz., Pusa Mustard 21, 22, 24, 29, 30 and 32; and two Canola quality varieties Pusa Double Zero Mustard 31 and 33. Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) since 2015 and recipient of many awards like Rafi Ahmad Kidwai Award – 2017, ICAR, New Delhi; Dr. B.P. Pal Memorial Award, 2012, IARI, New Delhi; NAAS Recognition Award-2018; Dr. P.R. Kumar Brassica Outstanding Scientist Award 2017, SRMR, Directorate of Rapeseed Mustard Research, Bharatpur. He has guided three M.Sc. and five Ph.D. students as Chairman and presently guiding four Ph.D. students and published 90 research papers in high impact factor journals.


Dr. Harsh Kumar Dikshit is serving as Principal Scientist at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi (India). He is working on genetic improvement of grain legumes through conventional and molecular approaches. He has developed fifteen varieties of different grain legumes (lentil, mungbean and dry beans) for cultivation in India. He is involved in development of leading mungbean varieties IPM 99-125, IPM 02-3, IPM 02-17 and Pusa 1431 and lentil varieties L 4717 and L 4727. His present focus is on basic and applied research on early maturity, biofortification and biotic stresses of lentil and mungbean. He is faculty of Division of Genetics and is involved in teaching of different courses and thesis research guidance to post graduate students. He has done his Masters and PhD in Plant Breeding from G.B.P.U.A. & T. Pantnagar (India). He is Fellow of ISGPB and ISRPD and recipient of several awards including ICAR-Dr. Rajendra Prasad Award-2020


Dr. Gyan Prakash Mishra is currently working as Principal Scientist at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi (India). Before that he has worked at DRDO-Defence Institute of High Altitude Research, Leh (India) as Scientist ‘C’, ICAR-Directorate of Groundnut Research, Junagadh (India) and ICAR-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi (India) as Senior Scientist. His major research interest includes crop improvement through conventional, molecular and transgenics approaches. He has done his master’s and PhD in Genetics from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi (India) and postdoc from University of California, Riverside and Purdue University, USA as BOYSCAST-Fellow. As a faculty of Division of Genetics, he is involved in teaching of different courses and also guiding the post-graduate students. He is the recipient of various prestigious awards including NAAS Associate-2018, NASI-Membership-2018, IARI-Merit Medal and Best Student Award-2001, ISCA-Pran Vohra Award-2012, DRDO-National Science day Award-2009, and ICAR-Dr. Rajendra Prasad Award-2020.


Dr. Shailesh Tripathi is currently working as Principal Scientist at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi (India). Prior to joining IARI, he served as Scientist at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad. He obtained his Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Genetics in 2004 from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar. He was involved in transfer of “QTL hotspot” containing quantitative trait loci for several root and drought tolerance traits into popular chickpea varieties of IARI resulting in the release of drought tolerant chickpea varieties. He also developed chickpea suitable for machine harvesting and extra-large seeded kabuli chickpea. He has published over 45 research papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is actively involved in teaching to post-graduate students as faculty of Genetics at IARI.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Fundamentals of Field Crop Breeding

  • Editors: Devendra Kumar Yadava, Harsh Kumar Dikshit, Gyan Prakash Mishra, Shailesh Tripathi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9257-4

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-9256-7Published: 06 May 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-9258-1Published: 07 May 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-9257-4Published: 05 May 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 1389

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 98 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Plant Sciences, Agriculture, Genetics and Genomics, Biotechnology

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