Table of Contents

Preface.Contributors.SECTION I: ORIGIN AND HISTORY.Chapter 1.1: Origin, Domestication, and Diversification (Te-Tzu Chang).Chapter 1.2: Biosystematics of the Genus Oryza (Duncan A. Vaughan and Hiroko Morishima).Chapter 1.3: American Rice Industry: Historical Overview of Production and Marketing (Henry C. Dethloff).Chapter 1.4: Origin and Characteristics of U.S. Rice Cultivars (David J. Mackill and Kent S. McKenzie).SECTION II: THE RICE PLANT.Chapter 2.1: Rice Morphology and Development (Karen A. K. Moldenhauer and Julia H. Gibbons).Chapter 2.2: Rice Physiology (Paul A. Counce, David R. Gealy, and Shi-Jean Susana Sung).Chapter 2.3: Genetics, Cytogenetics, Mutation, and Beyond (Georgia C. Eizenga and J. Neil Rutger).Chapter 2.4: Techniques for Development of New Cultivars (Anna Myers McClung).Chapter 2.5: Rice Biotechnology (Thomas H. Tai).Chapter 2.6: Studies on Rice Allelochemicals (Agnes M. Rimando and Stephen O. Duke).SECTION III: PRODUCTION.Chapter 3.1: Global Rice Production (Bobby Coats).Chapter 3.2: Rice Production (Joseph E. Street and Patrick K. Bollich).Chapter 3.3: Rice Soils: Physical and Chemical Characteristics and Behavior (H. Don Scott, David M. Miller, and Fabrice G. Renaud).Chapter 3.4: Soil Fertilization and Mineral Nutrition in U.S. Mechanized Rice Culture (Richard J. Norman, Charles E. Wilson, Jr., and Nathan A. Slaton).Chapter 3.5: Rice Diseases (Don Groth and Fleet Lee).Chapter 3.6: Rice Arthropod Pests and Their Management in the United States (M. O. Way).Chapter 3.7: Rice Weed Control (Andy Kendig, Bill Williams, and C. Wayne Smith).Chapter 3.8: Rice Marketing (Gail L. Cramer, Kenneth B. Young, and Eric J. Wailes).SECTION IV: PRODUCTS AND PRODUCT PROCESSING.Chapter 4.1: Rice Harvesting (Graeme R. Quick).Chapter 4.2: Rice Storage (Terry A. Howell, Jr.).Chapter 4.3: Rough Rice Drying and Milling Quality (Terry J. Siebenmorgan, Wade Yang, Rustico Bautista, and Auke Cnossen).SECTION V: GERMPLASM RESOURCES.Chapter 5.1: Germplasm Collection, Preservation, and Utilization (Harold E. Bockelman, Robert H. Dilday, Wengui Yan, and Darrell M. Wesenberg).Index.