Table of Contents

Rice Genetics Newsletter, Vol. 11
Table of Contents

A. Report of the Coordinating Committee of Rice Genetics Cooperative (M. E. Takahashi and K. J. Lampe) ............... 7
B.  Report of the Committee on Gene Symbolization, Nomenclature and Linkage Groups (T. Kinoshita) ............... 8
I. Registration of new gene symbols ............... 8
II. List of newly registered gene symbols (1987-1994) ............... 12
III. Current linkage maps ............... 15
IV.

Reports from coordinators
1) Gene symbols for blast resistance newly revised (T.Kinoshita, T. Inukai and K. Toriyama) ............... 16

  2) Current status of studies of rice organelle genes (N.Tsutsumi, M. Nakazono, T. Wakasugi, M. Sugiura, K. Kadowaki and A. Hirai) ............... 18
C. Report of the Committee on Genetic Stocks (N. Iwata) ............... 23
  I. Marker gene stocks maintained in IRRI (G. S. Khush) ............... 24
  II. Isogenic lines for semidwarf genes in Nati. Agric. Res. Center, Japan (R. Ikeda) ............... 31
  III. Isogenic lines for agronomic characters in Natl. Inst.Agrobiol Resources, Japan (M. Yokoo) ............... 31
  IV. List of marker gene stocks maintained in Hokkaido University (T. Kinoshita and I. Takamure) ............... 32
D. Report of the Committee on Genetic Engineering (Molecular analysis of rice genes) (Ray Wu) ............... 59
  I. Available genes for producing insect-resistant transgenic rice plants ............... 59
  II. Available genes for producing fungal disease-resistant transgenic rice plants ............... 60
  III. Time assessment and economic evaluation of the rice biotechnology program ............... 61
E.

Research Notes

I. Oryza species, evolution and varietal differentiation
  1. Is Yunnan a rice diversity center in isozyme variation?, by X. L. Sun, H. W. Cal and X. K. Wang ............... 65
  2. Studies on esterase isozymes in relation to origin and differentiation of cultivated rice, by H. W. Cal and X. K. Wang ............... 67
  3. Character variations of Korean weedy rice, by H. S. Suh and W. G. Ha ............... 69
  4. Classification of weed-rice strains based on isozyme variation, by H. S. Suh and H. Morishima ............... 72
  5. Genetic structure of natural populations of Oryza glumaepatula distributed in the Amazon basin, by M. Akimoto, M. Ohara, Y. Shimamoto and H. Morishima ............... 74
  6. Identification of Oryza punctata chromosomes transferred to monosomic alien addition lines of O. sativa by fluorescence in situ hybridization, by H. Yasui, K.I. Nonomura and N. Iwata ............... 76
  7. Development of intergeneric hybrid between O. sativa and Porteresia coarctata, by K. K. Jena ............... 78

II. Genic analysis and linkage

  1. Detection of a new semi-dwarfing gene, sd-8(t), by K. H. Tsai ............... 80
  2. Four esterase loci newly detected, by H. W. Cai and X. K. Wang ............... 83
  3. New isozyme loci for malate dehydrogenese, by H. W. Cai, X. L. Sun and X. K. Wang ............... 86
  4. A new allele of Amp-4 in a traditional rice cultivar, by S. S. Malik and G. S. Khush ............... 88
  5. Genic analysis for a small grain mutant induced from cultivar Kitaake, by I. Takamure and T. Kinoshita ............... 89
  6. A new brittle culm mutant in rice, by K. Singh, D. S. Multani and G. S. Khush ............... 91
  7. Genetic analysis of a dominant dwarf line, KL908, by L. H. Zhu and G. X. Lai ............... 92
  8. Chromosomal location of fertility-restoring gene Rf-2, by C. Shinjyo and S. Sato ............... 93
  9. Inheritance of fertility restoration for cytoplasmic male sterility in rice, by L. S. Teng and Z. T. Shen............... 95
  10. A deficiency in chromosome 4 of rice, by Z.X. Wang, Y. Sukekiyo, A. Yoshimura and N. Iwata ............... 98

III. Effect and expression of gene

  1. Pleiotropic effects of dwarfing genes on grain quality and chemical composition, by M. C. Hong, I. Takamure and T. Kinoshita ............... 100
  2. Susceptibility of brown sheath rot of rice correlated to sensitivity to bacterial toxin, by H. Batoka, J. M. Kinet, H. Maraite and J. Bouharmont ............... 102
  3. Effect of alminium on NADkinase activity in 5 rice genotypes with different A1 tolerances, by V. S. Jan V, P. Balanant, E. Schonne and J. Bouharmont ............... 104
  4. Distorted segregation of Acp-1 for acid phosphatase in a wide cross of rice, by E. S. Rha, F. S. Thseng and S. T. Wu............... 106
IV. RFLP analysis and mapping
  1. DNA markers tightly linked to genes Ph, alk and Rc, by S. Y. Lin, Y. Nagamura, N. Kurata, M. Yano, Y. Minobe and T. Sasaki............... 108
  2. Linkage analysis of rice lactate dehydrogenase gene, by T. Li, T. Takano, Y. Nagamura and G. Takeda ............... 109
  3. Preliminary study on genetic diversity of indica rice varieties grown in China, by J. Y. Zhuang, H. R. Qian, J. Lu, H. X. Lin and K. L. Zheng ............... 111
  4. Somaclonal variation facilitating integration of classical and RFLP markers on chromosome 4 of rice, by J. Y. Zhuang, C. D. Yang, H. R. Qian, C. Z. Zhao and K. L. Zheng ............... 114
  5. Integration of conventional and RFLP linkage maps in rice, III. chromosomes 5, 7, 8 and 12, by O. Ideta, A. Yoshimura, M. Ashikari and N. Iwata ............... 116
  6. . Regional location of RFLP linkage groups on pachytene chromosomes 1, 3, 4, 9 and 12, by K. I. Nonomura, A. Yoshimura and N. Iwata............... 117
  7. Conversion of RFLP markers to sequence tagged sites for chromosome 1 of rice, by C. P. Villareal, A. P. Resurreccion, V. Constantino, J. M. Robeniol and J. Bennett ............... 120
  8. Identification and internal mapping of seedling vigor QTL's in rice, by E. D. Redofia and D. J. Mackill ............... 124
  9. Fine-mapping of major genes for blast resistance in rice, by T. V. Mew, A. S. Parco, S. Hittalmani, T. Inukai, R. Nelson, R. S. Zeigler and N. Huang ............... 126
  10. Identification of RAPD marker linked to the gene controlling gall midge resistance against all biotypes in China, by S. K. Katiyar, Y. Tan, Y. Zhang, B. Huang, Y. Xu, L. Zhao, N. Huang, G. S. Khush and J. Bennett ............... 128
  11. Restriction fragment length polymorphic markers associated with rice varietal ability to stimulate N2 fixation in rhizosphere, by P. Wu, G. Zhang, J. K. Ladha, S. McCouch and N. Huang ............... 131
  12. Development of an RFLP map from a doubled haploid population in rice, by N. Huang, S. McCouch, T. Mew, A. Parco and E. Guiderdoni ............... 134
  13. Restriction fragment length polymorphism and linkage analysis in rice alpha-amylase gene family, by A. Parco, G. Magpantay, G. Second, R. Rodrigues and N. Huang ............... 137
  14. Abundance of PCR-based RFLP for marker-aided selection in rice, by B. Ghareyazie, N. Huang, G. Second, J. Bennett and G.S. Khush ............... 140
  15. Molecular mapping of a bacterial blight resistance gene on chromosome 8 in rice, by G. Zhang, E. R. Angeles, M. L. P. Abenes, G. S. Khush and N. Huang ............... 142
  16. Indentitication of blast resistance gene, Pi-2(t) in rice plants by flanking DNA markers, by S. Hittaimani, M. Foolad, T. Mew, R. Rodrigues and N. Huang ............... 144
  17. Molecular analysis of introgressed chromosome segments in a set of near-isogenic lines of rice for fertility-restoring genes, by G. Zhang, Y. Lu and N. Huang ............... 147
  18. Assignment of RFLP linkage groups to rice chromosomes using primary trisomics, by Z. H. Yu, G. S. Khush and S. D. Tanksley ............... 149

V. DNA sequence analysis and related studies

  1. Screening of Mutator-related sequence in rice, by R. Ishikawa, D. Lisch and M. Freeling ............... 155
  2. Analysis of 5s rRNA genes in wild rice, by H. K. Wu and M. C. Chung ............... 157
  3. New 57 kDa glutelin genes on chromosome 9 in rice, by H. Satoh, T. Kumamaru, A. Yoshimura and M. Ogawa ............... 158
  4. Identification of a rice BB genome type-specific repetitive DNA sequence, by T. Wu and Ray Wu ............... 161
  5. Identification of a rice CCDD genome type-specific repetitive DNA sequence, by T. Wu and Ray Wu ............... 164
  6. Characterization of rice repetitive sequences, OsG340 and OsG756 by PFGE, by T. Wu and Ray Wu ............... 167
  7. Expression of a maize ribosome-inactivating protein gene in transgenic rice, by J. K. Kim, D. Xu, X. Duan, Y. S. Hwang and Ray Wu ............... 171
  8. Polymorphism of prolamin polypeptides in rice cultivars from Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan, a preliminary study, by S. Minakuchi, H. Satoh and T. Konishi ............... 175

VI. Technical notes

  1. Screening of powerful RFLP probes for subspecies differentiation, by H. R. Qian, J. Y. Zhuang, H. X. Lin, J. Lu and K. L. Zheng ............... 177
  2. Chromosome 4 specific DNA library of rice by microdissection technique, by K. I. Nonomura, N. Matsumoto, A. Yoshimura, N. Niikawa and N. Iwata ............... 180
  3. High frequency plant regeneration from somatic embryos of Indica rice, by P. Suprasanna, T. T. Ganapathi and P. S. Rao ............... 183
  4. Plant regeneration from cryo-preserved callus of wild rice, O. meyeriana, by X. H. Ying, L. H. Shu and C. Y. Zheng ............... 184

Appendix: Comparison between PCR-based RFLP and Southern-based RFLP as DNA markers for germplasm classification in rice, by B. Ghareyazie, N. Huang, G. Second, J. Bennett and G. S. Khush (RGN 10, p. 129-132). One figure is presented as supplement ............... 187

 
F. Mailing List (Supplement, compiled by A. Hirai and H. I. Oka)
Address changes and correction ............... 188
New members ............... 189
Reconfirmation of members in Korea (by M. H. Heu) ............... 190
Editor's Note (by H.I. Oka and G. S. Khush) ............... 192