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Coordinating Committee
G.S. Khush (IRRI), Secretary and Editor
D.S. Brar (IRRI), Treasurer
Standing Committees, on:
Committee on Gene Symbolization,
Nomenclature and Linkage
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Committee on Genetic Stocks
Committee on Genetic Engineering
Qifa Zhang (China)
Committee on Rice Genetics Newsletter
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(Addresses of Office Bearers—See the reverse side of the
front page)
Printing of this issue was financially supported by the Ministry
of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (Grant-in-Aid for Publication
of Scientific Research Results), Japan.
Cover Picture. The liguleless (ig) mutant usually lacks
the auricles, ligule and visible collar in rice. Sanchez and Khush report
the collarless gene (col) linking with the ig locus in this issue, suggesting
different genetic controls for liguleless, collarless and auricleless phenotypes
(see Res. Note 12).
(Left to right) Plant with ligule, auricle and collar; Liguleless
plant with auricle and collar; Auricleless plant with ligule and collar;
Liguleless, collarless and auricleless plant.
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