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The necessity to address the challenges posed by a growing population and recurring food shortages due to unforeseen droughts and floods has prompted the development of new plant varieties by horticultural scientists. Additionally, certain restrictions in the enhancement of fruit crops, such as extended juvenile periods, high genetic diversity, limited understanding of hereditary patterns, excessive fruit drop, parthenocarpy, and reduced seed count per fruit, have contributed to the creation of several mango, grape, papaya, banana, and guava varieties for various applications. The publication of the second, fully revised and expanded version of the eagerly anticipated book Fruit Breeding Approaches and Achievements has been undertaken with the purpose of providing the most current information on the fundamentals of fruit breeding, breeding for resistance to biotic stressors, the use of plant growth regulators in fruit improvement, and the advancement of important fruit crops such as mango, banana, papaya, grape, guava, citrus, ber, aonla, pomegranate, date palm, litchi, coconut, cashewnut, pineapple, temperate, and underutilized fruits across a broad range.

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Anil Kumar Shukla obtained his B.Sc. (Ag) and M.Sc Ag (Hort.) from N.D. University of Agriculture and Technology Kumarganj, Faizabad during 1993 and 1996 respectively. He completed his Ph. D from IARI, Pusa, New Delhi in the year 2000. He has been awarded with Gold Medal in B.Sc (Agri.) and he has second rank in ICAR in JRF (1993). He was topper of ARS and SRF (1998). He worked as Scientist and Sr. Scientist at CIAH, Bikaner. He also served as Associate Professor at Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur. Dr. Shukla also worked as Principal Scientist (Horticulture) at Directorate of Research on Women in Agriculture, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Arun Kumar Shukla is working as Principal Scientist (Fruit Science) at ICAR-IARI, Regional Station, Amartara Cottage, Shimla-171004. M.B. Noor Mohamed, is presently working as Scientist (Agroforestry) at ICAR- Central Arid Zone Research Institute, RRS, Pali Marwar (Rajasthan). Akath Singh, Principal Scientist (Horticulture) at ICAR- Central Arid Zone Research Institute with more than 16 years of experience in production and improvement of various fruit crops. Divya Tiwari completed her higher studies in Narendra Deva University of Agriculture & Technology, Faizabad, U.P. (India) and acquired B.Sc. (Ag.), M.Sc. (Ag.) and Ph.D. in Horticulture (Fruit Science) Degrees in continuation during 2000-2010. She had also been recipient of University Merit Scholarship and Research Fellowship. She qualified Junior Research Fellowship (ICAR). She received NET Certificate conducted by Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board of ICAR (ASRB, New Delhi).

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