Book on “Flower Seed production” is the compendium of sexual and asexual propagation technologies for major cut and loose flower crops. Quality of planting materials plays a major role in economy of floriculture industry. With this background, this volume on “Flower Seed Production” has been compiled. This book covers seed biology aspects viz., floral biology, maturity, harvesting, collection and extraction of seeds, dormancy mechanisms and their breaking treatments, storage of seeds and seed treatment techniques of important cut and loose flowers. Research carried out in Seed Science and Technology of flower crops are also collected from different sources of publications and incorporated in the respective section of each chapter.

This book also gives an emphasis on asexual propagation techniques viz., bulbs, corms, cormels, cuttings, layering, grafting, budding and tissue culture protocols. The crop husbandry aspects like soil and climate, varieties, planting, manuring, water management, intercultural and plant protection techniques are also covered.