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Seed Production gives readers complete and current coverage of the principles and practices of seed production including conditioning evaluating and marketing high-quality seeds. It provides the necessary background material for understanding the fundamentals of seed production and brings readers up to date with the latest changes and trends occurring in the seed industry. The volume is arranged in two sections: The first provides essential background information bringing together material on flowering seed formation and development planting harvesting drying and storage seed legislation law enforcement and the marketing of the seed. The second and larger section of the text concentrates on the practices involved in modern seed production. It includes descriptive and agronomic information as well as the seed production practices for all the major crops in North America and throughout the world. About the Author Miller B.McDonald is in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science at Ohio State University. Lawrence O. COPELAND is in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at Michigan State University.