Rice Genetics Newsletter, Vol. 12
Table of Contents


A. Report of the Coordinating Committee of the Rice Genetics Cooperative (T. Kinoshita and G. Rothschild) ............... 5
B.
The Third International Rice Genetics Symposium; sponsored by IRRI (description by H. I. Oka and G. S.Khush) ............... 7
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Report of the Committee on Gene Symbolization, Nomenclature and Linkage Groups (T. Kinoshita) ............... 9

I. New gene symbols registered ............... 9
II. Table 1. List of gene symbols A-C, D-F, G-I, K-O, P-S, T-Z ............... 24
Table 2. List of genes for various traits ............... 61
III. Current linkage maps ............... 93
IV. Gene tagging ............... 115
D. Report of the Committee on Genetic Stocks (N. Iwata) ............... 154
E.

Report of the Committee on Genetic Engineering: Molecular analysis of rice genes (Ray Wu) ............... 155

F.

Research Notes

I. Wild species, evolution and chromosome studies
  1. Phylogenetic study of A-genome species of genus 0ryza using nuclea RFLP. , by K. Doi, A. Yoshimura, M. Nakano, N. Iwata and D. A. Vaughan ............... 160
  2. Agro-botanical and genetic studies of Oryza barthii strains, by A. Francisca, C. C. Nwokencha and J. C. Faluyi ............... 162
  3. Production of hybrids through embryo rescue between tropical japonica rice and wild species of Oryza., by B. Abdullah and I. H. Somantri ............... 165
  4. Evolution of cultivated rice during the neolithic age in the lower Yangtge basin, by L. Tang, J. Sun, M. Zhang and M. Li ............... 166
  5. Genetic erosion in wild and cultivated rice species, by H. Morishima and H. I. Oka ............... 168
  6. Condition for regenerating success and its variation in common wild rice, by H. I. Oka ............... 171
  7. Genetic differentiation of wild-rice populations in China, by Y. H. Huang and X. K. Wang............... 174
  8. Genetic diversity of weedy rice in Malaysia, by D. A. Vaughan, H. Watanabe, A. Md. Zain and K. Okuno ............... 176
  9. Isozyme variation in Asian common wild rice, Oryza rufipogon, by H. W. Cai, X. K. Wang and H. Morishima ............... 178
  10. Gene flow and population structure of Oryza glumaepatula distributed in the Amazon basin, by M. Akimoto, Y. Shimamoto and H. Morishima ............... 181
  11. Relationships between wild. weedy and cultivated rice in Malaysia, by D. A. Vaughan. A. Md. Zain. H. Watanabe and K. Okuno ............... 183
  12. Complementary genes controlling temperature-sensitive sterility in hybrids between Indica and Japonica types, by H. Li. A. Liu. L. Tang. Q. Zhang and J. Zou ............... 184
  13. A terminal deficiency in rice chromosome 11, by Z. X. Wang. Y. Sukekiyo. A. Yoshimura and N. Iwata ............... 185
  14. Evolutionary significance of chromosome 7 in an annual type of wild rice, by M. Eiguchi and Y. Sano ............... 187

II. Genic analysis, mutation and linkage

  1. Two newly found aminopeptidase (Amp) loci and allelic variation in Asian cultivars, by X. L. Sun, H. W. Cai and X. K.Wang ............... 189
  2. Chromosomal location of one of complementary recessive genes controlling hybrid breakdown in rice, by S.Fukuoka and K. Okuno ............... 191
  3. A new spotted leaf mutant in rice, by K. Singh. D. S. Multani and G. S. Khush ............... 192
  4. Spontaneous "57 H" mutants in rice, by H. Satoh, T. Kumamaru, M. Ogawa, M. Siraishi B. G. Im, M. Y. Son and Y. Takemoto ............... 194
  5. Mutations affecting embryo size in rice, by S. K. Hong, H. Kitano, H. Satoh and Y. Nagato ............... 196
  6. Genetic analyses for two kinds of mutants for long grain, by I. Takamure, M. C. Hong and T. Kinoshita ............... 199
  7. Inheirtance of a physiological mutant showing retarded panicle development, by T. Aida, I. Takamure and T. Kinoshita ............... 202
  8. Linkage relationships of some marker genes in rice, by K. Singh, A. Sanchez and G. S. Khush ............... 203
  9. Multiple alleles detected at the Ef-1 locus, by K. H. Tsai ............... 204
  10. Identification of two new null alleles in traditional rice germplasm of Philippines, by S. S. Malik, D. S. Brar and G. S. Khush ............... 206
  11. Linkage analysis of genes, ge (giant embryo) and esp-1 (endosperm storage
    protein-1 ) on chromosome 7, by T. Kumamaru and H. Satoh ............... 208
  12. Genetic relation between dormancy and aroma in rice, by T. Das ............... 209

III. Gene location and trisomics

  1. Arm location of Adh-l and Sdh-l isozymes using secondary trisomics, by K. Singh, B. Reyes, D. S. Brar and G. S. Khush ............... 211
  2. Rapid assignment of cloned DNA fragments to rice chromosomes using aneuhaploids tetrasomics, and trisomics, by Z. X. Wang, A. Kojima, N. Kurata, Y. Minobe and T. Sasaki ............... 212
  3. Isolation of thirteen-paired rice, by H.Yasui, N.Ohta and N. Iwata ............... 215
  4. Cytological investigation on an isotetrasomic in rice, by Z. Cheng, B. Yu and M. Gu ............... 217

IV. Gene expression, male sterility and resistance

  1. Identification of RAPD markers linked to Se-3(t), a gene enhancing the level of photoperiod sensitivity in rice, by M. Maheswaran, D. J. Mackill, N. Huang, S. R. Sreerangasamy and S. R. McCouch ............... 219
  2. Comparative assessment of variation in regenerants of microspores and protoplasts of cold tolerant rice, by J. N. Gupta ............... 222
  3. Study on endosperm, cytoplasmic and maternal plant genetic effects and genetic correlations for nutrient quality traits in indica rice, by C. Shi, Y. Yu, J. Xue, X. Yang and J. Zhu ............... 224
  4. Genetic correlation analysis of agronomic traits in rice, by C. Shi and Z. Shen ............... 226
  5. Identification of RAPD markers linked to rice thermosensitive genetic male sterility gene by bulk segregant analysis, by P. K. Subudhi. R. P. Borkakati, S. S. Virmani and N. Huang ............... 228
  6. Allelic relation between photoperiod-sensitive genic male-sterility and cytoplasmic-genic male sterility of BT type in rice, by Y. Shao and X. H. Tang ............... 231
  7. A new source of cytoplasmic male sterility found in Bangladesh Boro rice, by T. Nagamine, K. Kadowaki, A. Goto and T. Ajioka ............... 232
  8. Inheritance of resistance to bacterial blight of four Yunnan rice varieties, by H. P. Gao, X. H. Lin, G. X. Yu, D. P. Zhang and Y. F. Xie ............... 233
  9. Mapping a new gene for resistance to bacterial blight based on RFLP markers, by X. H. Lin, D. P. Zhang, Y. F. Xie, Q. F. Zhang and H. P. Gao ............... 234
  10. Identification of a fourth blast resistance gene in the Vietnamese indica cultivar Tetep, by T. Inukai, D. L. Viet, T. Imbe, R. S. Zeigler, T. Kinoshita and R. J. Nelson ............... 237

V. Segregation distortion and genetic mapping

  1. Identification of genes responsible for segregation distortion in a doubled haploid population of rice by using molecular markers, by P. K. Subudhi and N. Huang ............... 239
  2. A molecular genetic map of Japonica rice, by E. D. Redona and D. J. Mackill ............... 241
  3. RAPD and RFLP mapping of a submergence tolerance locus in rice, by K. Xu and D. J. Mackill ............... 244
  4. Comparison of AFLP, microsatellite and RAPD marker polymorphism in rice, by D. J. Mackill, Z. Zhang and E. D. Redona ............... 245

VI. RFLP analysis

  1. Phylogenetic relationships of Korean weedy rice based on RFLP analysis, by Y. C. Cho, T. Y. Chung and H. S. Suh ............... 248
  2. Interval mapping of QTLs for yield and other related characters in rice, by H. X. Lin, H. R. Qian, J. Y. Zhuang, J. Lu, S. K. Min, Z. M.Xiong, N. Huang and K. L. Zheng ............... 251
  3. RFLP mapping of major genes and minor genes for heading date in rice, by H. X. Lin, H. R. Qian, J. Y. Zhuang, J. Lu. Z. M. Xiong, S. K. Min, N. Huang and K. L. Zheng ............... 253

VII. Technical notes

  1. Rapid DNA isolation for marker assisted selection in rice breeding, by K. Zheng, P. K. Subudhi, J. Domingo, G. Magpantay and N. Huang ............... 255
  2. Morphological identification of trisomics derived from anther culture in rice, by Z. X. Wang and N. Iwata ............... 258
  3. Amplification of DNA fragments from charred rice grains by polimerase chain reaction, by Y. I. Sato, L. H. Tang and I. Nakamura ............... 260
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G. Mailing List (Supplement, compiled by A. Hirai and H. I. Oka) ............... 262
H. Subject Index (RGN 1-11) ............... 264
@ Condolence ............... 274
Editor's Note ............... 274