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Hybrid Seed Production for Boosting Crop Yields: Applications, Challenges and Opportunities by Amrit Lamichaney, Ashok Kumar Parihar, Abhishek Bohra, Pradip Karmakar, Satheesh Naik SJ is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book provides an overview of various procedures involved in hybrid seed production of field and vegetable crops, including historical development and principles, maintenance of seed purity of parental lines, evolution of breeding systems, male sterility and self-incompatibility. A section of the proposed book is dedicated to quality control procedures, comprising of purity testing, seed testing and certification process, and seed production management. The major shortcomings of the existing systems, new opportunities and future prospects of hybrid seed production are also discussed. The book focuses on field and vegetable crops like rice, maize, pearl millet, sorghum, pigeon pea, rapeseed, mustard, cotton, castor, soybean, and sunflower among others.

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Author

Amrit Lamichaney, Ashok Kumar Parihar, Abhishek Bohra, Pradip Karmakar, Satheesh Naik SJ

Publisher

Springer

Published

2025

Language

EN

ISBN

9789819605057

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Agriculture, Science, Stem