PRINCIPLES OF PLANT BREEDING 


* Plant breeding: It is an applied branch of botany dealing with improvement of agricultural crops.


OR Frankel (1958) defined as Genetic adjustment of plants to the service of man.


Contribution of Scientist


Dr. T. Venkatraman: Father of Indian Plant Breeding. (Agril at Glance)


1. Camerarius: Established the sex in plants for first time in 1694.


2. Thomas Fairchild: First artificial plant hybrid (1717) Sweet William x Carnation

Hybrid famous as "Fairchild's Mule"


3. Joseph Koelreuter (1760-66): Systemic study of hybridization in Tobacco.


4. Thomas Knight: First man to use artifical hybridization in fruit crop. to develop several fruit Varieties.


5. Le Couteur & Patric Shireff (1840): Individual plant selection and progeny test to developed some useful cereal varieties. Agriclass


6. Vilmorin (1856): Further developed Progeny Test in imporvement of sugarbeet.


7. Nilson& his associates: developed individual plant selection method.


8. Johanssen : Proposed the pure line theary for individual plant selection.


9. GH. Shull : He developed the single cross hybrid in maize for first time.


10. Donald Jones (1918) ldea of double cross.


11. Hayes & Garber (1919) : Suggest possibillty of utilization of synthetic varities in maize


12. Rhodes: recorded male sterlity in maize for first time (1933). 


13. Davis (1927): Used "Top cross" tor first ime


14. Hul (1945): Sugessted recurrent selection.


15. Jenson (1952) Put fourth the idea of Multiline varieties.


16. Borlaug (1953): Developed Multiline varieties to control rust resistance in wheat.


17. Maheswari & Gunah (1964): Produce haploid plants 'invitro' from pollen grain of Datura


18. Yuvan long ping (1976): Male sterility in rice for the first time in China and produced firist hybrid rice in 1981, called as Father of Hybrid Rice.