The Book entitled "Principles of Plant Breeding" provides an understanding of breeding methods for self, cross pollinated crops and different principles of plant breeding for crop improvement. Authors has made efforts to give a complete text book as per ICAR revised syllabus, which is implemented throughout the India for PG student from 2009. This text book will definitely helpful to the Undergraduate and post graduate students of plant breeding. This text book "Principles of Plant Breeding" is Prepared to serve as a textbook for M.Sc. (Ag.) Students. The book is written in simple language and even complex terms have been reduced for easy understanding. Hope this text book would be useful for post Graduate students, teachers and researchers engaged in the field of Genetics and Plant Breeding.