Biochemical Approaches in Crop Plant Evaluation

Abstract

It is essential to evaluate and characterise the collected germplasm of various crops for its proper exploitation in conventional plant breeding programmes. Various methods of evaluation, based on chemical, biological and molecular analysis, provide tools for cataloguing of genetic diversity. In this article, information available on crop plant evaluation based on nutritionalquality,
proteins, enzymes, isoenzymes and other chemical constituents has been summarised