Rice Genetics Newsletter 12 (1995)
B. The Third International Rice Genetics Symposium
(sponsored by IRRl)
 This symposium was held at the EDSA Plaza Hotel. Manila. 16-19, October 1995, sponsored by the IRRl with financial help by the Rockefeller Foundation. It was held in the big hotel as the participants were over 500 and could not be accomodated in the IRRl. On 20th October, all the participants visited the IRRI for a full day trip.
    The symposium included "plenary" (8:00-12:30 AM), "concurrent" (in 4 separate rooms: 14:00-17:30) and "poster" (19:30-21:30 PM) sessions.  In the planetary session, the following papers were presented: (Oct. 16)M. Hossain-Economic prosperity in Asia: implications for the demand for rice research; B. A. Antonio et. al. -High density linkage map of rice with expressed sequence tags; O. Ideta et al. -An integrated linkage map of rice; M. D. Gale et al. - Rice as a pivotal genome for grass comparative genetics; G.S. Khush et al- Centromere mapping and orientation of classical and molecular maps of rice: I. Ashikawa et al. -A first-generation physical map of the rice genome: A. Miyao et al. -Application of cDNA sequence information for characterization of rice genome. (Oct. 17) Hiei and Komari—Stable inheritance of transgenes in rice plants transformed by Agrobacterium tumefaciens; T.C. Hall et al. -Successful transformation and regeneration of elite rice aiming at producing agronomically useful transgenic plants or in analysing gene expression, including gibberellin-dependent signalling pathway; I. Potrykus et al -Transgenic indica rice to the benefit of less developed countries: toward insect-, virus-, and fungal pest resistance and accumulation of ß-carotene in the endosperm; C. M. Fauquet et al. - Rice transformation: a routine for Japonica and Indicaplants; T. K. Hodges et al. - FLP/FRT-mediated manipulation of transgenes in the plant genome; P. Christou et al. -Introduction of multiple genes into elite rice varieties-Evaluation of transgene stability, gene expression and field performance of transgenic plants; Q. Xue et al. -Field tests of herbicide- and insect-resistant transgenic rice plants. (Oct. 18) C.J. Lamb et al. - Engineering enhanced resistance to microbial disease in rice: R. X. Fang et al. -Construction of transgenic rice plants resistant to rice yellow stunt virus, a plant rhabdovirus: Gatehouse et al. -Progress toward genetic engineering of rice for resistance to brown planthopper; T. W. Okita et al. -The sorting of storage protein mRNAs on distinct endoplasmic reticulum membranes in developing rice endosperms; F.F. White et al. - Molecular analysis of the interaction between Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae and rice: W. Y. Song et al. -The rice disease resistance gene, Xa-21, encodes a receptor-like kinase; P. Kachroo and B. B. Chattoo—Molecular analysis of repeated DNA sequences from the blast fungus, Magnaporthe grisea; R. J. Nelson et al.- Deployment of resistance to bacterial blight. (Oct. 19) R. W. Herdt—Establishing the Rockefeller Foundation's priorities for rice biotechnology research in 1995 and beyond: J. A. Robeniol et al. -Sequence-tagged sites and low-cost DNA marker technology for rice: M. Nakazono et al. -Structure and gene expression of the mitochondrial genome of rice ; K.Fukui—Recent advances in rice chromosome research: A. Reddy—Genetic and molecular analysis of the anthocyanin pigmentation pathway in rice; P. Virk et al. -Marker-assisted prediction of agronomic traits using diverse rice germplasm; Q. Zhang et al. -Usefulness of molecular markers in predicting hybrid performance in rice:J.  Xiao et al. -Dominance is the major genetic basis of heterosis in rice as revealed by QTL analysis using molecular markers.
    Concurrent sessions held in 4 separate rooms were characterized each by a particular subject, as follows: (Oct. 16) Room1:a) Varietal differentiation and evolution (4 papers were presented), b) Molecular tagging of genes (5 papers) , Room 2 ; a) Genetics of disease resistance (5 papers) , b) Gene isolation, characterization, and expression (4 papers), Room 3 : a) & b) Molecular tagging of genes (8 papers), Room 2: a) Genetic diversity in pathogen populations (4 papers) b) Molecular genetics of blast pathogen (5 papers), Room3:  a) & b) Genetics of morphological and physiological traits (11 papers). Room 4): a) & b) Transformation (9 papers).
(Oct. 18) Room 1: a) & b) QTL mapping (9 papers) Room 2:a) & b) Gene isolation, characterization, and expression (9 papers), Room 3: a) & b)  Transformation using insecticidal genes (9 papers) Room 4 a) & b) Transformation (9 papers) .
( Oct. 19) Room 1 : a) Mapbased gene cloning (2 papers), b) Gene isolation, characterization, and expression (supplement, 4 papers). Room 3: Rice research priorities (3 papers). Room 4: Transformation (supplement, 4 papers). 162 posters were presented in the separate room. (by H. I. Oka and G.S..Khnsh)

Appendix   Memory for abbreviation of terms

AFLP: amplified fragment length polymorphism

CMS: cytoplasmic male sterility

PAGE: polyacrylamid gel electrophoresis

PCR: polymerase chain reaction

QTL: quantitative trait loci

RAPD: randomly amplyfied polymorphic DNA

RFLP: restriction fragment length polymorphism