Oryza: From Molecule to Plant

Front Matter....Pages i-1
Comparative genetics in the grasses....Pages 3-15
Are rice chromosomes components of a holocentric chromosome ancestor?....Pages 17-23
Origin, dispersal, cultivation and variation of rice....Pages 25-34
Alien introgression in rice....Pages 35-47
Linkage map of phenotype and RFLP markers in rice....Pages 49-60
Conservation of rice genetic resources: the role of the International Rice Genebank at IRRI....Pages 61-67
Rice genetic resources: history, conservation, investigative characterization and use in Japan....Pages 69-77
Rice molecular genetic map using RFLPs and its applications....Pages 79-87
Microsatellite marker development, mapping and applications in rice genetics and breeding....Pages 89-99
Physical mapping of the rice genome with YAC clones....Pages 101-113
Physical mapping of the rice genome with BACs....Pages 115-127
A rapid and accurate strategy for rice contig map construction by combination of fingerprinting and hybridization....Pages 129-133
Large-scale EST sequencing in rice....Pages 135-144
Genetic and molecular dissection of quantitative traits in rice....Pages 145-153
QTL analysis to study the association between leaf size and abscisic acid accumulation in droughted rice leaves and comparisons across cereals....Pages 155-165
Comparative genetics of flowering time....Pages 167-177
The molecular basis of disease resistance in rice....Pages 179-186
Towards map-based cloning of the barley stem rust resistance genes Rpg1 and Rpg4 using rice as an intergenomic cloning vehicle....Pages 187-195
Rice transformation: bombardment....Pages 197-203
Transformation of rice mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens ....Pages 205-217
Transposon tagging in rice....Pages 219-229
Retrotransposons of rice: their regulation and use for genome analysis....Pages 231-240
Public informatics resources for rice and other grasses....Pages 241-251
Back Matter....Pages 253-254