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The book Plant Breeding in the 21st Century is written by B.D. Singh & N.S. Shekhawat. This book attempts to present the complete picture of plant breeding ranging from the classical to the molecular approaches applied to crop improvement. The book is divided into four sections: Classical Plant Breeding, Transgenic technology, Molecular Markers, and Miscellaneous. This book is designed primarily for graduate students, viz., B.Sc. agriculture and B.Sc. science students with botany as one of the subjects, who would get their first exposure to plant breeding. It would also be useful for the post-graduate students, especially in botany, and for teachers of the subject. The book is written in simple and easy-to-understand language. Illustrations and photographs have been provided wherever they were expected to facilitate comprehension of the subject under discussion.