Vegetable Breeding: Principles and Application

1    Importance and History
2    Selection Procedures; Hybridization; Genetic Architecture; Breeding for Biotic Stress; Breeding for Water Use Efficiency (WUE) and Nutrients Use Efficiency (NUE)
3    Heterosis Breeding-Types, Mechanisms, and Basis of Heterosis, Facilitating Mechanisms like Male Sterility, Self-Incompatibility and Sex Forms
4    Mutation and Polyploidy Breeding; Improvement of Asexually Propagated Vegetable Crops and Vegetables Suitable for a Protected Environment
5    Ideotype Breeding; Varietal Release Procedure; DUS Testing in Vegetable Crops; Application of In-vitro and Molecular Techniques in Vegetable Improvement
6    Breeding of Crucifers, Cucurbitaceous, Solanaceous and Tuberous Vegetables
7    Vegetable Breeder’s Kit
8    Unit Questions