Rice Genetics Newsletter, Vol. 8
Table of Contents

Dedication ............... i

A. Report of the Coordinating Committee of Rice Genetics Cooperative (M. E. Takahashi and K. J. Lampe) ............... 1
B.@ Report of the Committee on Gene symbolization, Nomenclature and Linkage Group (T. Kinoshita) ............... 2
C.

Report of the Committee on Genetic Stocks (N. Iwata) ............... 38

Wild relatives of rice conserved at the International Rice Germplasm Center, IRRI (D. A. Vaughan, M. S. Almazan, M. Oliva and M. E. Naredo) ............... 38
D. Report of the Committee on Genetic Engineering (Molecular analysis of rice genes) (Ray Wu) ............... 45
Guidelines for Nomenclature of Cloned Genes or DNA Fragments in Rice (R. Wu, A. Hirai, J. Mundy, R. Nelson and R. Rodriguez) ............... 51
E.

List of Publications on Rice Genetics (Supplement, compiled by F. Kikuchi) ............... 54

F. Research Notes
I. Rice species and evolution
  1. Biogeography of the genus Oryza across the Malay Archipelago, by D. A. Vaughan ................ 73
  2. A preliminary note on Oryza schlechteri, by D. A. Vaughan, P. Feral and G. Gorogo ............... 75
  3. Wild-rice seeds found in an oldest rice remain, by Y. I. Sato, S. X. Tang, L. U. Yang and L. H. Tang ............... 76
  4. A survey of within-population genetic diversity in land races and wild rices of tropical Asia, by H. I. Oka ............... 79
  5. Origin of Japonica rice as suggested from characters of some Aman and deepwater cultivars, by K. S. Cheng, Y. Z. Chang, X. K. Wang and H. W. Cai ............... 81
  6. Isozyme diversity in Oryza australiensis, by B. G. de los Reyes, D. S. Multani, D. S. Brar and G. S. Khush............... 83

II. Cytogenetics

  1. Production of tertiary trisomics and their utilization in rice, by K. I. Nonomura, T. Kawasaki, A. Yoshimura, N. Kishimoto and N. Iwata ............... 85
  2. A secondary-trisomic like plant found in rice, by O. Ideta, A. Yoshimura and N. Iwata ............... 87
  3. Character expression of CC and CCDD genomes in hybrid with dip- loid and tetraploid strains of O. sativa, by Z. X. Li, D. X. Liu, WenJin Yu and Y. Song ............... 89
  4. Interspecific hybrids produced through embryo rescue between cultivated and eight wild species of rice, by D. S. Brar, R. Elloran and G. S. Khush ............... 91
  5. Genomic relationship of Oryza longiglumis and O. ridleyi, by L. A. Sitch, R. Dalmacio, D. S. Brar and G. S. Khush ............... 93
  6. Cytology of endosperm in wild diploid and tetraploid strains of Oryza granulate, O. officinalis and O. punctata, by P. T. Annie and P. G. Nair ............... 95

III. Linkages

  1. Localization of gene Gdh-1 for glutamate dehydrogenase , by R. Ishikawa ............... 97
  2. Linkage analysis in chromosomes 3 and 6, by I. Takamure and T. Kinoshita ............... 98
  3. Integration of isozyme genes on chromosome 12 into a linkage map, by R. Ishikawa ............... 100
  4. Chromosomal location of Xa-21, by R. Ikeda, R. E. Tabien and G. S. Khush ............... 102
  5. Tight linkage of gene sd-7(t) and d1 found in a cross of Taichung 65 isogenic lines, by K. H. Tsai ............... 104
  6. Location of chl-7 on linkage group 6, by A. C. Sanchez and G. S. Khush ............... 104
  7. Chromosomal location of Mdh-3 and Pgd-2 loci in rice through monosomic alien addition line (MAAL) analysis, by G. S. Khush, D. S. Multani, B. G. de los Reyes and D. S. Brar ............... 106
  8. Chromosomal location of gene sd-1 examined with isogenic translocation lines of Taichung 65, by K. H. Tsai ............... 109

IV. New genes

  1. Gene analysis for spikelet sterility of F1 hybrid between cultivars Silewah and Hayakogane, by T. Inukai, M. Maekawa and N. Shinbashi ............... 110
  2. Multiple alleles detected at locus sd-1, by K. H. Tsai ............... 112
  3. A nuclear gene inducing fertility restoration in cytoplasmic male-sterile rice, by Y. Sano and M. Eiguchi ............... 113
  4. A gene for low crossability found in the common wild rice, by Y. Sano ............... 115
  5. A deepwater tolerant gene detected in the common wild rice, by M. Eiguchi and Y. Sano ............... 116
  6. Inheritance of low temperature tolerance at young seedling stage, by H. Morishima ............... 117
  7. Complementary genes responsible for photoperiod sensitivity in the common wild rice, by Y. I. Sato ............... 119

V. Gene action and distribution

  1. Interaction between genes for panicle density in rice, by Y. Futsuhara, S. Kondo and H. Kitano ............... 121
  2. Variation due to locality in an early maturing mutant in rice, by T. Imaoka and Y. Futsuhara ............... 122
  3. Chromosomal location of genes for bacterial blight resistance found in a Yunnan variety Dongnuo, by X. Lin, G. Yu, D. Zhang, Y. Xie and Y. Chen ............... 124
  4. The distribution of resistance genes to the brown planthopper in rice germplasm, by R. Ikeda and D. A. Vaughan ............... 125
  5. Isozyme variations and ecotype-specific Pgd-1 alleles found among Japanese rice varieties, by R. Ishikawa ............... 128
  6. A new tester line for analyzing heading time genes in rice, by Y. Okumoto, T. Tanisaka and H. Yamagata ............... 129

VI. Transposon

  1. Varying frequencies of occurrence of offtypes and unusual segregation patterns observed in crosses of isogenic Taichung 65 lines, by K. H. Tsai ............... 131

VII. Molecular genetics

  1. DNA polymorphisms generated by arbitrary primed PCR in rice, by K. L. Zheng, B. Shen and H. R. Qian ............... 134
  2. Location of two rDNA genes by linkage analysis in rice, by S. Matsu- mura, M. Yano and A. Saito ............... 136
  3. Polymerase chain reaction identifies genomic DNA polymorphism in rice, by Q. M. Yi and J. Lu ............... 139
  4. Genetic and physical mapping of the bacterial blight resistance gene Xa-21, by P. C. Ronald and S. D. Tanksley ............... 142
  5. Molecular tagging of a recessive gene, xa-5, for resistance to bacterial blight of rice, by S. R. McCouch, M. L. Abenes, R. Angeles, G. S. Khush and S. D. Tanksley ............... 143
  6. Polyamine-induced phosphorylation in rice nuclei, by D. van den Broeck, M. V. Montagu and A. Caplan ............... 145
  7. Structural organization of rice calmodulin genes, by Y. J. Choi and G. An ............... 149
  8. Is the size of the rice genome relatively small? by S. Nishibayashi ............... 152

VIII. Technical note

  1. Effect of a chemical hybridization agent HGR-626 on the plant regeneration after anther culture, by K. Ukai and Y. Futsuhara ............... 154
  2. MAPL: A package of microcomputer programs for RFLP linkage mapping, by Y. Ukai, R. Ohsawa and A. Saito ............... 155
  3. Mapping DNA sequences in rice using in situ hybridization, by P. Gustafson and J. E. Dille ............... 158
  4. A simple screening method for transgenic rice tissue based on PCR, by A. Mayer, G. B. Zondag and L. A. M. Hensgens ............... 161
  5. Pulsed field gel analysis of rice mitochondrial DNA, by C. Andre and V. Walbot ............... 165
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G. Mailing List (Supplement, compiled by Y. Futsuhara) ............... 168
@ Editor's Note (by H.I. Oka and G. S. Khush) ............... 171