Principles of Plant Genetics and Breeding To respond to the increasing need to feed the worlds population as well as an ever greater demand for a balanced and healthy diet there is a continuing need to produce improved new cultivars or varieties of plants particularly crop plants. The strategies used to produce these are increasingly based on our knowledge of relevant science particularly genetics but involves a multidisciplinary understanding that optimizes the approaches taken. Principles of Plant Genetics and Breeding 2nd Edition introduces both classical and molecular tools for plant breeding. Topics such as biotechnology i