Ebook Info.

1. Introduction
Status of horticulture industry
Constraints in fruit breeding
Infrastructure
Salient achievements & milestones
Way forward
2. Biodiversity of Fruit Crops and their Management
Introduction
Wild species and diversity
Biodiversity of fruits
Varietal diversity
Conservation strategies
Use of gis tools
Biodiversity assessment
Way forward
3. Breeding Methodologies
Introduction
Selection
Hybridisation
Mutation breeding
Ploidy manipulation
Molecular markers
4. Breeding Prerequisites
Cytogenetics in fruit crops
Cytological methods
Application of cytogenetics in fruit breeding
Inheritance of characters
Pre-selection indices
Molecular markers
Proteomics
Genomics
5. Breeding Constraints and Solutions
Sterility
Apomixis
Self-Incompatability
Parthenocarpy
Hybridisation barriers
Utilisation of wild species in hybridisation
Conclusion
6. Breeding Objectives in Fruit Crops
AScion breeding
Yield and quality
Seedlessness
Biotic tolerance
Abiotic tolerance
B Rootstock breeding
Resistance breeding
Biotic stress tolerance
Abiotic stress tolerance
Conclusion
7. Innovative Approaches
Ploidy manupulations
Types of changes in chromosome number
Aneuploidy
Monoploids & haploids
Autopolyploidy
Allopolyploidy
Polyploidy for fruit crop improvement
Mutation breeding
Molecular markers
Genomics of fruit crops
Conclusion
205-235
8. Commercial Varieties/ Hybrids
Mango
Banana
Papaya
Guava
Citrus
Grapes
Pomegranate
Temperate varieties
9. Terminologies in Fruit Crops Breeding
Pomology
Botany
Genetics and cytogenetics
Breeding
Physiology and biochemistry
Biotechnology
Appendix
Different shapes
Venation pattern
Leaf morphology
Inflorescence
Placentation
Floral biology of fruit crops