1. Rice Artificial Hybridization for Genetic Analysis
Xueyan Sha
2. Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization Techniques for Cytogenetic and Genomic Analyses
Jason G. Walling, Wenli Zhang, and Jiming Jiang
3. Generation of Rice Mutants by Chemical Mutagenesis
Thomas H. Tai
4. TILLING and Ecotilling for Rice
Jennifer L. Cooper, Steven Henikoff, Luca Comai, and Bradley J. Till
5. Functional Characterization of Rice Genes Using a Gene-Indexed T-DNA Insertional Mutant Population
Ki-Hong Jung and Gynheung An
6. QTL Analysis and Map-Based Cloning of Salt Tolerance Gene in Rice
Ji-Ping Gao and Hong-Xuan Lin
7. Site-Specific Gene Integration in Rice
Vibha Srivastava
8. Transcriptome Profiling Analysis Using Rice Oligonucleotide Microarrays
Ki-Hong Jung and Pamela C. Ronald
9. Cloning of Small RNAs for the Discovery of Novel MicroRNAs in Rice
Guru Jagadeeswaran and Ramanjulu Sunkar
10. Global Identification of Small RNA Targets in Rice by Sequencing Sliced Ends of Messenger RNAs
Yong-Fang Li and Ramanjulu Sunkar
11. Artificial MicroRNAs for Specific Gene Silencing in Rice
Norman Warthmann, Stephan Ossowski, Rebecca Schwab, and Detlef Weigel
12. Rice Proteomic Analysis: Sample Preparation to Protein Identification
Ganesh Kumar Agrawal, Nam-Soo Jwa, Young-Ho Jung, Sun Tae Kim, Dea-Wook Kim, Kyoungwon Cho, Junko Shibato, and Randeep Rakwal
13. Quantification of Jasmonic and Salicylic Acids in Rice Seedling Leaves
Kyoungwon Cho, Oksoo Han, Shigeru Tamogami, Junko Shibato, Akihiro Kubo, Ganesh Kumar Agrawal, and Randeep Rakwal
14. Analysis of Insect-Induced Volatiles from Rice
Nan Zhao, Xiaofeng Zhuang, Gitika Shrivastava, and Feng Chen
15. Phenotypic and Physiological Evaluation for Drought and Salinity Stress Responses in Rice
Utlwang Batlang, Niranjan Baisakh, Madana M.R. Ambavaram, and Andy Pereira
16. Phenotypic, Physiological, and Molecular Evaluation of Rice Chilling Stress Response at the Vegetative Stage
Benildo G. de los Reyes, Song Joong Yun, Venura Herath, Fuyu Xu, Myoung Ryoul Park, Jeong Il Lee, and Ki Young Kim
17. Analysis of Rice Root Hair Morphology Using Cryo-Scanning Electron Microscopy
Zhiming Yu, Hanmin Chen, Yanli Tong, and Ping Wu
18. Inoculation and Virulence Assay for Bacterial Blight and Bacterial Leaf Streak of Rice
Bing Yang and Adam Bogdanove
19. Inoculation and Scoring Methods for Rice Sheath Blight Disease
Yulin Jia, Guangjie Liu, Dong-Soo Park, and Yinong Yang
20. Molecular Approaches to Improve Rice Abiotic Stress Tolerance
Junya Mizoi and Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki
21. Molecular Strategies to Improve Rice Disease Resistance
Emily E. Helliwell and Yinong Yang
22. Molecular Strategies to Engineer Transgenic Rice Seed Compartments for Large-Scale Production of Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals
Trevor Greenham and Illimar Altosaar
Appendix: Genomic and Bioinformatic Resources for Rice Research
Wenhua Liu, Kabin Xie, and Yinong Yang
