A. Report of the Coordinating Committee of the Rice Genetics Cooperative

     As announced in the Rice Genetics Newsletter 15, the Fourth International Rice

Genetics Symposium will be held on October 22-27, 2000. First circular was sent in March, 1999. To-date we have received 250 registrations. The venue of the symposium has not bee decided as yet. We can accommodate upto 270 participants in Los Bahos. If the number of participants does not exceed 270, the symposium will be held at

IRRI. Otherwise in a hotel in Manila. Please send the abstracts of your paper by April 1,2000. Full manuscripts will be due by June 30, 2000.
     We are receiving many research notes on molecular biology for publication in Rice Genetics Newsletter. Therefore, we have added Dr. Ray Wu as the third editor of RGN.

     We reported about the project on “Mutants of Rice” in the last volume of RGN. Considerable progress was made in compiling the information for the book during the year. We hope to make more progress in 2000.

Chairman