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Synopsis Domestication of plants is done in order to increase yield, improve diseases resistance and drought tolerance, ease harvest and to improve the taste and nutritional value and many other characteristics. Centuries of careful selection and breeding have had enormous effects on the characteristics of crop plants. Plant breeders use greenhouses and other techniques to get as many as three generations of plants per year so that they can make improvements all the more quickly. This book explores innovative methods for breeding new varieties of major crops with resistance to environmental stresses that limit crop production worldwide. It provides the basic principles and techniques of agricultural breeding and examine work that has been done in relation to improving resistance in specific important world food crops. The contents of the book will help scientists and academics to examine, modify and improve breeding and crop production programmes.