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| Rice drought-prone environments and coping strategies |
Drought: economic costs and research implications
Sushil Pandey and Humnath Bhandari | 3 |
Modeling spatial and temporal variation of drought in rice production
Robert J. Hijmans and Rachid Serraj | 19 |
| Recent progress in breeding and genetics of drought resistance |
Rice germplasm development for drought-prone environments: progress made in breeding and genetic analysis at the International Rice Research Institute
G.N. Atlin, R. Venuprasad, J. Bernier, D. Zhao, P. Virk and A. Kumar | 35 |
Drought research at WARDA: current situation and prospects
M. Sié, K. Futakuchi, H. Gridley, S. Mande, B. Manneh, M.N. Ndjiondjop, A. Efisue, S.A. Ogunbayo, M. Moussa, H. Tsunematsu and H. Samejima | 61 |
Drought resistance characters and variety development for rainfed lowland rice in Southeast Asia
Shu Fukai, Jaya Basnayake and Ouk Makara | 75 |
Molecular breeding for drought-tolerant rice (Oryza sativa L.): progress and perspectives
Zhi-Kang Li and Yong-Ming Gao | 91 |
Recent efforts to improve drought resistance of rice in Brazil
Flavio Breseghello, Cleber Moraes Guimarães and Beatriz da Silveira Pinheiro | 113 |
Harnessing quantitative genetics and genomics for understanding and improving complex traits in crops
James B. Holland and Andrea J. Cardinal | 123 |
| Physiological and molecular mechanisms of drought resistance |
Drought-resistant rice: physiological framework for an integrated research strategy
R. Serraj, G. Dimayuga, V. Gowda, Y. Guan, Hong He, S. Impa, D.C. Liu, R.C. Mabesa, R. Sellamuthu and R. Torres | 139 |
The rice root system: from QTLs to genes to alleles
Brigitte Courtois, Nourollah Ahmadi, Christophe Perin, Delphine Luquet and Emmanuel Guiderdoni | 171 |
An integrated systems approach to crop improvement
Graeme L. Hammer and David Jordan | 189 |
| Management of rainfed rice systems |
Drought-prone rainfed lowland rice in Asia: limitations and management options
S.M. Haefele and B.A.M. Bouman | 211 |
Enhancing rice productivity in water-stressed environments: perspectives for genetic improvement and management
Anil Kumar Singh and Viswanathan Chinnusamy | 233 |
Effects of irrigation treatment on rice growth and development: comparing a study of rice farming between nonflooding and flooding cultivation
Longxing Tao, Xi Wang, Huijuan Tan and Shihua Cheng | 259 |
| Genes and genomics for drought-resistant rice |
Gene expression analysis and data mining from microarray analysis applied to drought stress in rice
Kouji Satoh, Koji Doi, Toshifumi Nagata, Aeni Hosaka, Kohji Suzuki, Xumei Ji, Muturajan Raveendran, Hei Leung, John Bennett and Shoshi Kikuchi | 275 |
Gene discovery for improving drought resistance of irrigated rice by systematic genetic and functional genomics approaches
Lizhong Xiong | 299 |
SNP discovery at candidate genes for drought responsiveness in rice
Kenneth L. McNally, Ma. Elizabeth Naredo and Jill Cairns | 311 |
Research activities on drought tolerance of rice at JIRCAS
Takashi Kumashiro and Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki | 325 |
GM technology for drought resistance
Philippe Hervé and Rachid Serraj | 333 |
Biotechnology and transposon-tagging for improving drought resistance in rice for Indonesia
I.H. Slamet-Loedin, S. Purwantomo, P.B.F. Ouwerkerk, S. Nugroho and R. Serraj | 351 |
Bioinformatics for drought resistance
Victor Jun Ulat, Samart Wanchana, Ramil Mauleon and Richard Bruskiewich | 365 |
| Conclusions and recommendations |
Drought-resistant rice for increased rainfed production and poverty alleviation: a concept note
R. Serraj and G. Atlin | 385 |
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