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082 _a580 KUM/M
100 _aKUMAR, RAHUL
245 _aMAIZE BREEDING: PROTEIN QUALITY AND DISEASE RESISTANCE
260 _aNew Delhi
_bR.P. Publications
_c2017
300 _a144p.
520 _aThe book begins with the description on maize, their flower biology, wild relatives, heterosis, inbreeding depression and production technology. The detail about banded leaf and sheath blight disease in maize deals with the BLSB symptoms, genetics and breeding methods. Finally the book presents a riview on breeding method and improvement of the 'Quality Protein Maize' especially with reference to the development of QPM using market assisted backcross breding. This comprehensive and profusely illustrated text will be highly valuable to the students of plant breeding, plant pathology and biotechnology at all levels.
650 _aBotany
650 _aMaize
650 _aMaize breeding
650 _aCorn
942 _cBK
999 _c19111
_d19111