Table of Contents:
  • From landrace to modern plant breeding
  • Pollination, types of cultivar
  • Agronomy, maintenance of cultivar purity and organic crops
  • Harvesting and processing
  • Seed storage
  • Seed quality control, handling and distribution
  • Gramineae : self-fertilized cereals
  • Gramineae : cross-fertilized cereals
  • Gramineae : temperate, prairie and tropical grasses
  • Leguminosae : temperate and tropical forage legumes
  • Leguminosae : pulse crops
  • Edible oilseed crops
  • Forage crops of cruciferae and chenopodiaceae
  • Amaranthaceae.