Agriculture & farming

Commercial Flowers

by Anil Kumar Singh

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Floriculture is one of the fastest-growing sectors of commercial agriculture world-wide with many highly profitable crops. Cultivation of flowers more pragmatic endeavor than other crops. Every day novel variety, new colour in any ornamental flower crop not only fascinates us but also gives a thrust to know more about their breeding technologies. Creation of diversity of new and domesticated flower crops by public and private sector flower breeders brings a fascination towards its breeding technology. The students while dealing with the breeding and biotechnology of flowers then they must required a base knowledge. Therefore emphasis has been given to present the book in its easiest form so that anyone can understand it without losing interest from it. It has been designed to cover all the aspects of breeding, the basic objectives, different breeding methods, methodology for improvement of specific crops, stress resistance, quality improvement, mutagenesis, genetic engineering and biotechnology.

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Author Biography

A.K. Singh: Professor and Head, Department of Horticulture, Institute of Agricultural Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221 005, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Publishes Agriculture, Plant, Horticultural Sciences, Food, Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Geology. Online Language, Communication Skill Courses Certified by MHRD (GoI).

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher NIPA
  • Publication Date January 2014
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9789383305353
  • Publication Country or regionIndia
  • FormatHardback
  • Primary Price 234.01 USD
  • Pages740
  • ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language TitleEnglish
  • Original Language AuthorsEnglish
  • Edition1st
  • Copyright Year2014
  • Dimensions6 X 9 inches
  • SeriesBreeding and Biotechnology of Flowers

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