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         RICE GENETICS NEWSLETTER



                  Volume 4








          Rice Genetics Cooperative

                December 1987





          Genetic Resources Section
       National Institute of Genetics
              Misima, Japan


          Rice Genetics Cooperative

               Office Bearers

Coordinating Committee                      Genetic Stocks

M. S. Swaminathan (IRRI)-Chairman  T. Omura (Japan)-Convener
T. Matsuo (Japan)-Co-Chairman      T. T. Chang (IRRI)
G. S. Khush (IRRI)-Secretary and   S. D. Sharma (India)
  Editor                           K. Miezan (Ivory Coast)
H. I. Oka (Japan)-Editor           N. lwata (Japan)
Y. Futsuhara (Japan)-Secretary     
D. Senadhira (IRRI)-Treasurer       Genetic Engineering
M. Takahashi (Japan)               
T. Kinoshita (Japan) Convener      M. Van Montagu (Belgium)-
Shao-Kai Min (China)               R. Wu (U.S.A.)
J. Neil Rutger (U.S.A.)            Da-Yuang Wang (China)    
A. Bianchi (Italy)                 H. Yamaguchi (Japan)
K. Miezan (Ivory Coast)
R. Seetharaman (India)              Rice Genetics Newsletter
M. H. Heu (Korea)                    
                                   G. S. Khush (IRRI)-Convener
Standing Committees, on:           H. I. Oka (Japan)
                                   A. Bianchi (Italy)
Gene Symbolization, Nomenclature   S.   Iyama (Japan)
  and Linkage                      J. Neil Rutger (U.S.A.)                    
                                   
T.   Kinoshita (Japan)-Convener
H.   K. Wu (Taiwan, China)
R.    Seetharaman (India)
J.   Neil Rutger (U.S.A.)
G.   S. Khush (IRRI)

         RICE GENETICS NEWSLETTER
                  Volume 4
     Edited by H. I. Oka and G. S. Khush

              A Publication of
          Rice Genetics Cooperative
                December 1987




          Genetic Resources Section
       National Institute of Genetics
                Misima,Japan