The book is an excellent reference collection of the research conducted by different workers on induced mutagenesis, worldwide, for more than 80 years. One can get almost all mutation breeding references at one place. The book gives a coherent and concise account of all the important and relevant aspects related to induced mutagenesis with an emphasis on recent developments in the field of crop improvement. The references have been arranged crop wise and important topic wise which deal with not only classical mutation breeding but also spontaneous mutations, somaclonal variations, nanoparticles, and relevant modern aspects. The book highlights 22 chapters covering holistic information on almost all important components such as radiosensitivity, chromosomal and morphological abnormalities, detection of mutation, management of chimera, present status of mutation etc.) of Mutation Breeding. Chapters are very informative, and one can follow the references on crop and aspect basis since the start of mutation breeding work.
This book is an excellent resource for researchers and students for understanding proper applications of induced mutations in crop improvement and biological research. It is of interest and useful to graduate and postgraduate students, horticulturists, floriculturists, agricultural scientists, and breeders related to crop improvement program.
Author(s): Subodh Kumar Datta
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 439
City: Singapore
Foreword
Preface
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: Introduction/Review
1.1 Mutagenesis and Radiobiological Aspects
1.2 Acute and Chronic Irradiations
Chapter 2: Impact of Mutation Technique
Chapter 3: Definition
3.1 Types of Mutations
Chapter 4: Mutagens
4.1 Treatment Procedure
Chapter 5: Experiment and Data Collection
5.1 Experiment
5.2 Data Collection
5.2.1 Common Characters: Vegetative
5.3 Floral Characters
5.3.1 Analysis of Data and Interpretation
5.3.2 Mitotic Index Calculation
Chapter 6: Radiosensitivity
6.1 Split Dose, Storage
6.2 Acute and Chronic Radiation
6.3 Experimental Materials
6.4 Mutagen, Propagules, and Treatment Dose
6.5 Enzyme-Related Radioprotection
6.6 Experiment: Bulb Propagated Crop (Allium cepa)
6.7 Experiment: Seed Propagated Crop (Lens culinaris)
Chapter 7: LD50 Dose
7.1 Experiment: Seed Propagated Crops: X-Irradiation
7.2 Makhana (Euryale ferox Salisb.): Gamma Irradiation
7.3 Experiment: Vegetatively Propagated Crops: Rose: Gamma Irradiation
7.4 Chrysanthemum: Gamma Irradiation
Chapter 8: Chromosomal Aberrations
8.1 Mitotic Chromosomes
Chapter 9: Morphological Abnormalities
9.1 Experiment: Seed Propagated Crops
9.2 Experiment: Vegetatively Propagated Crops: Chrysanthemum and Rose
Chapter 10: Histology
10.1 Micromorphology
Chapter 11: Effects on Pollen Grain
11.1 Experiment: Seed Propagated Crops
11.2 Vegetatively Propagated Crops
Chapter 12: Colchi-Mutation
12.1 Experiment
Chapter 13: Combined Treatment
Chapter 14: Recurrent Irradiation
14.1 Chrysanthemum
14.2 Rose
Chapter 15: Detection of Mutations
15.1 Seed Propagated Crops
15.2 Vegetatively Propagated Crops: Chrysanthemum
15.3 Detection of Mutants in Later Generations
Chapter 16: Management of Chimera and In Vitro Mutagenesis
16.1 Experiment
Chapter 17: Induced Mutagenesis in Cross-Breeding
Chapter 18: Adventitious Bud Technique
Chapter 19: Present Status of Mutation Technology
Chapter 20: Spontaneous Mutation (Bud Sport)
Chapter 21: Somaclonal Variation
Chapter 22: Nanoparticles
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