The present book Breeding Field Crops is a very tedious and comprehensive work of more than a hundred renowned Agriculture Scientists of ICAR (Project Directors, Project Coordinators and Plant Breeders of specific crops) and Professors of State Agricultural Universities of India who are engaged in teaching and research of specific crops. This book covers all the major field crops and several minor crops of economic importance growing all over the world. In case of some of the very important crops the literature is not available in any of the Field Crop books. This book Breeding Field Crops will be a milestone and useful for the UG, PG students, Researchers of various Institutes and Professors of Colleges and Universities of India and abroad. In this book chapters are well designed to cover all traditional and most recent innovative (molecular and biotechnological) approaches that are recently employed to the breeding of field crops.