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VIII. Teaching methods
• Classroom lectures
• Student assignment and presentation
• Practical experiments
• Exposure/ field visits
IX. Learning outcome
This course will enable the students to understand the techniques of germplasm
preservation and long term storage of gene pool and seeds.
X. Suggested Reading
Basra AS (Ed.). 1995. 
Seed Quality: Basic Mechanisms and Agricultural Implications
. Food
Product Press, USA.
Brush SB. 1999. 
Genes in the field: On-farm Conservation of Crop Diversity
. Lewis Publishers,
Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
Choudhary DR. 2009. 
Guidelines for Storage and Maintenance of Registered Plant Varieties in
the National Gene Bank
. Published by Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmer’s Rights
Authority. Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, GoI, New Delhi.
Gupta D. 2009. 
Seeds: Their Conservation Principles and Practices
. Sathish Serial Publishing
House. New Delhi.
Jarvis DI, Meyer L, Klemick H, Guarino L, Smale M, Brown AHD, Sadiki M and Sthapit B.
2000. 
A Training Guide for In-situ Conservation On-farm
. Version 1. International Plant
Genetic Resources Institute, Rome, Italy.
Joshi AK and Singh BD. 2004. 
Seed Science and Technology
, Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi.
Maiti RK, Sarkar NC and Singh VP. 2006. 
Principles of Post Harvest Seed Physiology and
Technology
. Agrobios., Jodhpur.
McDonald MF and Copeland LO. 2012. 
Seed Production: Principles and Practices
. Springer
Science and Business Media., Boston, USA.
Meerabi G and Pullaiah T. 2015. 
Plant Biodiversity Conservation and Management
, Daya
Publishing House, Delhi.
Rao NK, Hanson J, Dulloo ME, Ghosh K, Nowell A and larinde M. 2006. 
Manual of Seed
Handling in Genebanks
. Bioversity International, Rome.
Vernoy R, Shrestha P and Sthapit B. 2015. 
Community Seed Banks: Origins, Evolution and
Prospects
, Oxford, Routledge, UK.

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