1. Preface

   • Takuji Sasaki
   • Graham Moore

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 1

2. Comparative genetics in the grasses

   • Katrien M. Devos
   • Michael D. Gale

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 15

3. Are rice chromosomes components of a holocentric chromosome ancestor?

   • Graham Moore
   • Luis Aragón-Alcaide
   • Tracie Foote

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 23

4. Origin, dispersal, cultivation and variation of rice

   • Gurdev S. Khush

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 34

5. Alien introgression in rice

   • D.S. Brar
   • G.S. Khush

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 47

6. Linkage map of phenotype and RFLP markers in rice

   • Atsushi Yoshimura
   • Osamu Ideta
   • Nobuo Iwata

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 60

7. Conservation of rice genetic resources: the role of the International Rice Genebank at IRRI

   • Michael T. Jackson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 67

8. Rice genetic resources: history, conservation, investigative characterization and use in Japan

   • Masahiro Nakagahra
   • Kazutoshi Okuno
   • Duncan Vaughan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 77

9. Rice molecular genetic map using RFLPs and its applications

   • Yoshiaki Nagamura
   • Baltazar A. Antonio
   • Takuji Sasaki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 87

10. Microsatellite marker development, mapping and applications in rice genetics and breeding

    • Susan R. McCouch
    • Xiuli Chen
    • Matthew Blair

    OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 99

11. Physical mapping of the rice genome with YAC clones

    • Nori Kurata
    • Yosuke Umehara
    • Takuji Sasaki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 113

12. Physical mapping of the rice genome with BACs

    • Hong-Bin Zhang
    • Rod A. Wing

    OriginalPaper Pages: 115 - 127

13. A rapid and accurate strategy for rice contig map construction by combination of fingerprinting and hybridization

    • Guofan Hong*

    OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 133

14. Large-scale EST sequencing in rice

    • Kimiko Yamamoto
    • Takuji Sasaki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 144

15. Genetic and molecular dissection of quantitative traits in rice

    • Masahiro Yano
    • Takuji Sasaki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 153

16. QTL analysis to study the association between leaf size and abscisic acid accumulation in droughted rice leaves and comparisons across cereals

    • Stephen A. Quarrie
    • David A. Laurie
    • Christina Calestani

    OriginalPaper Pages: 155 - 165

17. Comparative genetics of flowering time

    • David A. Laurie

    OriginalPaper Pages: 167 - 177

18. The molecular basis of disease resistance in rice

    • Pamela C. Ronald

    OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 186

19. Towards map-based cloning of the barley stem rust resistance genes Rpg1 and rpg4 using rice as an intergenomic cloning vehicle

    • A. Kilian
    • J. Chen
    • A. Kleinhofs

    OriginalPaper Pages: 187 - 195

20. Rice transformation: bombardment

    • Paul Christou

    OriginalPaper Pages: 197 - 203

21. Transformation of rice mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens

    • Yukoh Hiei
    • Toshihiko Komari
    • Tomoaki Kubo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 205 - 218

22. Transposon tagging in rice

    • Takeshi Izawa
    • Tohru Ohnishi
    • Ko Shimamoto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 229

23. Retrotransposons of rice: their regulation and use for genome analysis

    • Hirohiko Hirochika

    OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 240

24. Public informatics resources for rice and other grasses

    • Samuel W. Cartinhour

    OriginalPaper Pages: 241 - 251