This book offers a detailed overview of both conventional and modern approaches to plant breeding. It explores various aspects of conventional and modern means of plant breeding. The contents address the needs of students worldwide. Modern methods like molecular breeding and genomics are dealt with extensively to provide a firm foundation and equip the readers to further read advanced books. The content of every chapter is arranged to discuss the subject as comprehensively as possible, and care has been taken to include nearly all topics required under the curricula of MS course. Each chapter includes a section on further reading at the end. Most of the up-to-date information is given in boxes. As such, the book provides a much-needed reference guide for MS students worldwide.