Citation:

GA Niles. The basics of plant breeding. Pages 9-22. In: Biology and Breeding for Resistance to Arthropods and Pathogens in Agricultural Plants. MK Harris (editor). The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station, Texas and University of California, Agency for International Development, Pest Management Project, Berkeley CA USA, 605 pages.

Keywords: reproduction in plants, genetics, meiosis, asexual reproduction, self crossing, cross pollination, genetic variability, selection, germplasm resources, qualitative and quantitative variability, breeding in self-pollinated crops, selection in cross-pollinated crops, hybrid crops, backcross breeding, recurrent selection, hybridization,