1. What it will take to Feed 5.0 Billion Rice consumers in 2030

   • Gurdev S. Khush

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 6

2. How Can We Use Genomics to Improve Cereals with Rice as a Reference Genome?

   • Yunbi Xu
   • Susan R. McCouch
   • Qifa Zhang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 26

3. Where Does the Accurate Rice Genome Sequence Lead Us?

   • Takuji Sasaki
   • Baltazar Antonio

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 32

4. Genome-wide Introgression Lines and their Use in Genetic and Molecular Dissection of Complex Phenotypes in Rice (Oryza sativa L.)

   • Zhi-Kang Li
   • Bin-Ying Fu
   • Ling-Hua Zhu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 52

5. The Oryza Map Alignment Project: The Golden Path to Unlocking the Genetic Potential of Wild Rice Species

   • Rod A. Wing
   • Jetty S. S. Ammiraju
   • Scott Jackson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 62

6. Molecular Evidence for Asymmetric Evolution of Sister Duplicated Blocks after Cereal Polyploidy

   • Hongbin Wang
   • Lujun Yu
   • Jinfa Wang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 74

7. The Plant Architecture of Rice (Oryza sativa)

   • Yonghong Wang
   • Jiayang Li

   OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 84

8. Chemical- and Irradiation-induced Mutants of Indica Rice IR64 for Forward and Reverse Genetics

   • Jian-Li Wu
   • Chanjian Wu
   • Hei Leung

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 97

9. EU-OSTID: A Collection of Transposon Insertional Mutants for Functional Genomics in Rice

   • L. (Ellen) J. G van Enckevort
   • Gaëtan Droc
   • Andy Pereira

   OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 110

10. Reverse Genetic Approaches for Functional Genomics of Rice

    • Gynheung An
    • Dong-Hoon Jeong
    • Sichul Lee

    OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 123

11. Conservation of the E-function for Floral Organ Identity in Rice Revealed by the Analysis of Tissue Culture-induced Loss-of-Function Mutants of the OsMADS1 Gene

    • Ganesh Kumar Agrawal
    • Kiyomi Abe
    • Hirohiko Hirochika

    OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 135

12. A Pilot Study of Transcription Unit Analysis in Rice Using Oligonucleotide Tiling-path Microarray

    • Viktor Stolc
    • Lei Li
    • Xing Wang Deng

    OriginalPaper Pages: 137 - 149

13. Microarray Analysis Reveals Similarities and Variations in Genetic Programs Controlling Pollination/Fertilization and Stress Responses in Rice (Oryza sativa L.)

    • Lefu Lan
    • Meina Li
    • Yongbiao Xue

    OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 164

14. Profiling the Expression of Genes Controlling Rice Grain Quality

    • Meijuan Duan
    • Samuel S. M. Sun

    OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 178

15. Rice Proteome Database: A Step toward Functional Analysis of the Rice Genome

    • Setsuko Komatsu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 190

16. Transcription Factors in Rice: A Genome-wide Comparative Analysis between Monocots and Eudicots

    • Yuqing Xiong
    • Tieyan Liu
    • Mingsheng Chen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 191 - 203

17. Modification of Endogenous Natural Genes by Gene Targeting in Rice and Other Higher Plants

    • Shigeru Iida
    • Rie Terada

    OriginalPaper Pages: 205 - 219

18. Editorial

    • Rod Wing

    OriginalPaper Pages: vii - vii