The present book furinishes the past achievements and future strategy for a range of crops viz. cereals, pulses, oilseeds, commerical crops, forage crops, fruits, forest trees, aromatic and medicinal plants and focusses attention on biotechnology and plant breeders' right in particular context of India. The authors are well known crop breeders and have dealt with the relevant crop breeding issues in an authoritative manner. This publication would be useful for students, teachers and researchers in the vital area of crop improvement.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Cereals, Wheat breeding perspective: Challenge in 1990s and beyond; Current breeding approaches in wheat improvement; Status of leaf (Puccinia recondita f.sp.tritici) resistance in Indian wheats; Management and genetic control of rust diseases in wheat; Role of alien species in wheat improvement; Breeding wheat for drought tolerance; Problems and prospects of wheat breeding in peninsular India; Breeding weat for northern hills; Rice breeding for rain upland ecosystem; Breeding rice for favourable environments; Quality breeding in rice; Deep water rice breeding; Recent advances in intrapopulation improvement in cross-pollinated crops; Population improvement in maize; Major constraints on maize production in Uttar Pradesh and ways to meet the challenges in the nineties; Breeding maize for Uttar Pradesh; Breeding for resistance to desases in pearl millet; Population improvement in pearl millet; Diversification of male sterile lines in pearl millet; Early hybrids verus other hybrids in pearl millet; Small millets improvement in India. ;