Rice improvement in the genomics era

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Datta, Swapan K. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : CRC Press , c2009
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The high-quality rice genome sequence and its impact on general genomics
  • 2. Comprehensive analysis of rice gene expression using the microarray system: what we have learned from the microarray project
  • 3. Rice improvement: taking advantage of new technologies
  • 4. Haploid breeding in rice improvement
  • 5. Hybrid rice technology
  • 6. Stem borer resistance: Bt (bacillus thuringiensis) rice
  • 7. Biotechnological approaches to disease resistance in rice
  • 8. Molecular aspects of rice blast disease resistance: insights from structural and functional analysis of the Pi-ta and AVR-Pita gene pair
  • 9. Abiotic stress tolerance in rice
  • 10. Rice end-use quality
  • 11. Genetically improved nutrition-dense rice
  • 12. Expression of human milk proteins in mature rice grains
  • 13. Nitrogen fixation in rice: reality or dream?
  • 14. Rice for sustainable food and nutritions security
  • 15. Food safety of transgenic rice