Citation: Gurdev S Khush, SS Virmani. 1996. Haploids in Plant Breeding. Pages 11-33. In: S M Jain, SK Sopory, RE Veilleux (editors). In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants, Kluwer Academic Publisher. ISBN 978-0-7923-3577-1

Keywords: Oryza sativa, strategies for haploid production, parthenogenesis and apogamy, chromosome elimination, somatic reduction, in vitro culture, haploids in plant improvement, doubled haploids in self-pollinating species, doubled haploids in cross-pollinating species, doubled haploids in genome mapping,