Summary

A concise recap of the chapter: plant breeding (the purposeful, scientifically guided improvement of crop plants for higher yield, quality and stress resistance, carried out through germplasm collection, parent selection, cross-hybridization, selection of superior recombinants, and multi-location testing before release, illustrated by Indian achievements such as Himgiri wheat and hybrid sugarcane canes); plant tissue culture (resting on totipotency, the capacity of a single cell to regenerate a whole plant, and applied through micropropagation for rapid clonal, disease-free multiplication, and through somatic hybridization and somaclonal variation for producing genetically novel plant types); and Single Cell Protein (microbial biomass, from organisms suc …