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The Rice Genetics Newsletter of RGN is a publication of the Rice Genetics Cooperative, and is a channel of communication among rice geneticists, The success of the Cooperative depends upon the cooperation of the members. We request your cooperation.

Please send us research notes on your new findings in rice genetics, for RGN 14 before the end of August, 1997. Please carefully follow the style used in previous issues of RGN. Your comments and suggestions for the betterment of future issues are most welcome.

The printing of RGN is financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan. We are grateful for the generous support. (H. MORISHIMA and G.S. KHUSH)

All correspondence having to do with subscription of RGN, address change and the like should be addressed to the treasurers.

Dr. D. Senadhira: IRRI, P.O. Box 933, Manila, Philippines

(For residents of the countries other than Japan)

Short articles reporting new findings in rice genetics are invited as research notes. Each note should be in the form of an abstract, typewritten double-spaced throughout on one side of A4 paper. In principle, a note should be within two printed pages. References should be given when citation is made in the text. A few tables and/or figures evidencing the findings reported are welcome, but table should be small in size and concisely written. The author is requested to submit two sets of manuscripts.

In writing the manuscript, please carefully follow the style we use, by referring to previous issues of RGN. When deemed necessary, manuscripts accepted may be edited with approval of the author (except for minor changes). If the manuscript is prepared on a word processor, please send a floppy disk after the manuscript is finally accepted (not at the first submission). Preference is files in MS-Word for Mackintosh on 3.5" diskette. For texts on MS-DOS, please send 3.5" FD with the text saved as ASCII file.

Particular strains used as experimental material should be clearly described. For reporting a news gene, its name, symbol, etc. should be registered arid published in the Report of Committee on Gene Symbolization, Nomenclature and Linkage Groups (write to Dr. N. Iwata, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812 Japan), and n small bit of seed of the genetic stock carrying the gene should be sent to the Committee-on Genetic Stocks (to Dr. H. Satoh, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812 Japan, or to Dr. G.S. Khush, IRRI, P.O. Box 933, Manila, Philippines).

Manuscripts for the issue of the year should be received by the editor by the end of August. Recent papers on rice genetics published by the members in languages other than English may be briefly rewritten as research notes. If you publish a full paper on the same subject as your research note, you may make citation of your RGN paper as a reference. Finally, please remember the principle of writing: "Write for the reader".

Manuscripts should be addressed either to: