CONTENTS: 1. Chromosomes and Cytogenetics: An Introduction, 2. Duplications and Deficiencies, 3. Inversions, 4. Interchanges, 5. Haploidy in Higher Plants, 6. Polyploidy-I. Autopolyploidy, 7. Polyploidy-II. Autopolypoidy and Genome Analysis, 8. Aneuploidy-I. Hyperploids (Trisomics and Tetrasomics), 9. Aneuploidy-I. Hypoploidy (Monosomics and Nullisomics), 10. Aneuploidy III. Alien Gene Transfer through Chromosome Manipulations, 11. Cytogenetics of Sex Determination and Sex Differentiation, 12. Cytogenetics of Apomixis, 13. Molecular Cytogenetics I. Nuclear DNA and its Organization, 14. Molecular Cytogenetics II. Genetic and Physical Chromosome Maps using Molecular Markers. 15. Molecular Cytogenetics –III. Multigene Families in Eukaryotes, References, Author Index, Subject Index.