The book begins with the description on maize, their flower biology, wild relatives, heterosis, inbreeding depression and production technology. The detail about banded leaf and sheath blight disease in maize deals with the BLSB symptoms, genetics and breeding methods. Finally the book presents a riview on breeding method and improvement of the 'Quality Protein Maize' especially with reference to the development of QPM using market assisted backcross breding. This comprehensive and profusely illustrated text will be highly valuable to the students of plant breeding, plant pathology and biotechnology at all levels.