Sustainable Developments in Agriculture and Plantation

Plant breeding is said to be one of the ancient and ongoing activities undertaken by mankind, who select plants and domesticated to quantify the production of yield and useful. The advent of civilizations paralleled the progress of plant breeding, although this has not been documented by the public. The reason may be lack of understanding of what plant breeding encompasses. With the course of time plant breeding was been formulated, but without losing the spirit of being art and science of manipulating plants for humans. This chapter discusses an over view about the concepts and the methods of plant breeding, No matter how big the pool of genetic information in recent years, the phenotype will continues to be important in the present and future