• Comparative genetics in the grasses.- Are rice chromosomes components of a holocentric chromosome ancestor?.- Origin, dispersal, cultivation and variation of rice.- Alien introgression in rice.- Linkage map of phenotype and RFLP markers in rice.- Conservation of rice genetic resources: the role of the International Rice Genebank at IRRI.- Rice genetic resources: history, conservation, investigative characterization and uze in Japan.- Rice molecular genetic map using RFLPs and its applications.- Microsatellite marker development, mapping and applications in rice genetics and breeding.- Physical mapping of the rice genome with YAC clones.- Physical mapping of the rice genome with BACs.- A rapid and accurate strategy for rice contig map construction by combination of fingerprinting and hybridization.- Large-scale EST sequencing in rice.- Genetic and molecular dissection of quantitative traits in rice.- QTL analysis to study the association between leaf size and abscisic acid accumulation in droughted rice leaves and comparisons across cereals.- Comparative genetics of flowering time.- The molecular basis of disease resistance in rice.- Towards map-based cloning of the barley stem rust resistance genes Rpg1 and rpg4 using rice as an intergenomic cloning vehicle.- Rice transformation: bombardment.- Transformation of rice mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens.- Transposon tagging in rice.- Retrotransposons of rice: their regulation and use for genome analysis.- Public informatics resources for rice and other grasses.

'...it will be useful not only for specialists of plantbiotechnology, cereal breeders and geneticists, but some problems presented here may be of special interest also to plant physiologists.' Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 20:2 (1998)P