Contents -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- OPENING ADDRESS -- Overview -- Rice genetics from Mendel to functional genomics -- Application of Mendelian genetics in rice breeding -- The Rockefeller Foundation's International Program on Rice Biotechnology -- Molecular markers genetic diversity and evolution -- Evolution and domestication of rice -- Rice: a central genome for the genetics of all cereals -- Phylogeny of the genus Oryza as revealed by molecular approaches -- Miniature inverted repeat transposable elements help create genomic diversity in maize and rice -- Microsatellite markers in rice: abundance diversity and applications -- Molecular mapping and marker-assisted selection for major-gene traits in rice -- QTL mapping in rice: a few critical considerations -- Genetic and molecular basis of heterosis in rice -- Structural and functional genomics -- The International Rice Genome Sequencing Project: progress and prospects -- Strategies and techniques for finishing genomic sequence -- Sequence-tagged connector/DNA fingerprint framework for rice genome sequencing -- Naturally occurring allelic variations as a new resource for functional genomics in rice -- Deletion mutants for functional genomics: progress in phenotyping sequence assignment and database development -- Generation of T-DNA insertional tagging lines in rice -- Transposons and functional genomics in rice -- Retrotransposons of rice as a tool for the functional analysis of genes -- Bioinformatics and the rice genome -- Gene isolation and function -- Enhancing deployment of genes for blast resistance: opportunities from cloning a resistance gene/avirulence gene pair -- Molecular signaling in disease resistance of rice -- Structure function and evolution of disease resistance genes in rice.

Isolation of candidate genes for tolerance of abiotic stresses -- Molecular dissection of cell death in rice -- Molecular tools for achieving synthetic apomixis in hybrid rice -- Transformation -- Engineering for virus resistance in rice -- Transgenic approaches for generating rice tolerant of dehydration stress -- High-level expression of C4 photosynthetic genes in transgenic rice -- Transgene integration organization and expression in cereals -- Gene silencing and its reactivation in transgenic rice -- Workshop reports -- Rice molecular breeding workshop -- Functional genomics workshop -- Bioinformatics workshop -- RICE GENETICS COOPERATIVE.