Challenges for South Asian Resources and Information Services: Essays in Honour of Dr. Ravindra N. Sharma

As a part of agriculture, man started rearing plants and animals to meet his requirements. This is when humans started to learn how to influence the process of natural evolution so as to breed plant or animals. Slowly and gradually, this process of expedited evolution, through selection and cultivation of plants, acquired the form of a routine endeavour—what we today call ‘plant breeding''. In thi...