This symposium is a follow-up to one held in China in 1986. Since then considerable progress has been made in research and development of hybrid rice. This seco

Heterosis in rice; Rice cytoplasmic-genetic male sterility system; Procedures for breeding hybrid rice; Breeding for CMS lines and their maintainers; Breeding f

Rice is the most important food crop of the developing world and the demand for it is growing. Provided here is a concise account of hybrid breeding in rice, a