TY - CHAP AU - Ehsan Shakiba AU - Georgia C. Eizenga ED - Wengui Yan ED - Jinsong Bao Y1 - 2014-04-23 PY - 2014 T1 - Unraveling the Secrets of Rice Wild Species N2 - Rice is a staple food for half of the worlds population mostly in Asia. Productivity of rice has largely been improved since the Green Revolution in 1960s. Further improvement of rice yield is necessary to keep pace with population growth, which is a challenging task for breeders. This book, Rice - Germplasm, Genetics and Improvement, as its name implies, comprehensively reviews current knowledge in germplasm exploration, genetic basis of complex traits, and molecular breeding strategies in rice. In the germplasm part, we highlight the application of wild rice in rice breeding. In the genetics part, most of the complex traits related with yield, disease, quality have been covered. In the improvement part, Chinese experiences in hybrid rice breeding have been summarized together with many molecular breeding practices scattering in different chapters. BT - Rice SP - Ch. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/58393 DO - 10.5772/58393 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -