The Committee of Rice Genetics Newsletter (RGN) decided to publish RGN
as an On-line Journal from the vol. 22, 2005. We are expecting
to communicate many articles to promote genetic researches in the rice
community.
Contributors may submit their research notes electronically at http://www.shigen.nig.ac.jp/rice/oryzabase/rgn/newsletter.jsp
at anytime in the year. The editorial office of RGN will assemble all
accepted notes into one or two issues annually, depending on the number
of articles accepted. Issue no. 1 of each volume will be appeared
in January and no. 2 in July on the web-site through Oryzabase.
The editorial office suggest to submit your research notes by the end
of April or October. The concept of RGN publication is shown in the following.
Please follow the "Manuscript Preparation" and "Submission"
procedure when you submit your research note.
General Policy: The RGN is published by the RGC as a channel of
communication among rice geneticists. Short articles reporting new findings
in rice genetics are invited as research notes. Each article will be reviewed
for acceptability by a referee and an editor. However, summaries of recent
papers on rice genetics published by the RGC members in languages other
than English may also be accepted as research notes. If you publish a
full paper on the same subject as your research note, you are requested
to cite your RGN paper as a reference. Your comments and suggestions for
the improvement of further issues are most welcome.
Manuscript Preparation: Each paper should be in the form of an
extended abstract in MS-Word.
- Completely follow the format of research note.
- The text should be single-spaced and in ten-point Times New Roman/Times
font. Titles should be in bold and author names should be in uppercase
letters.
- The total number of Figures and Tables is limited to two display items.
- References should be listed alphabetically, should follow the usual
RGN format and placed at the end of the text.
- All text, figures and/or tables, and figure legends of a paper should
be adjusted to fit within a maximum of three pages. Combine all items
in one MS-Word file before submission.
- Further details on manuscript preparation can be obtained by consulting
articles shown in vol. 22.
Submission:
- Manuscripts should be submitted at the electrical submission site
at http://www.shigen.nig.ac.jp/rice/oryzabase/rgn/newsletter.jsp.
- Manuscripts will be subjected to review and a review report will be
sent in around a month from the RGN office electrically.
- Articles accepted .by the end of June or November will appear in July
and January issues, respectively.
- Japanese contributors are requested to support the cost of maintaining
an electronic editorial system by paying the article charge of 5,000
yen/year. Upon accept of your article, please transfer the charge to
the post office account below shown in Japanese.
- Fields you have to select on submission:
Fields names are presented on the submission site. The office will automatically
send papers to appropriate referees according to the selected field
for reviewing. The
panel of referees will be changed every two years. See below the list
of referees in
years 2005 and 2006.
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(1) Database and information
Y. Yamazaki
Y. Nagamura
R. Bruskiewich
(2)Genetic variation and evolution
Y. Sano
K. Okuno
K. McNally
†
(3) Morphological trait
H. Kitano
Y. Nagato
J. Bennett
(4) Physiological trait and others
K. Kadowaki
R. Ishikawa
A. Ismail
†
(5) Disease and insect resistance
A.Yoshimura
T. Ishii
D. Brar
†
(6) Gene and genome structure
T. Tanisaka
K. Nonomura
H. Leung
Y.Ito
The Editorial Office of RGN:
N. Kurata, Editor in chief, e-mail: nkurata@lab.nig.ac.jp
Plant Genetics Laboratory, Genetic Strains Research Center,
National Institute of Genetics,
Mishima, 411-8540 Japan
Editors:
H. Kitano (in charge in years 2005 and 2006)
Department of Agricultural Science, Nagoya University,
Chikusa, Nagoya, 464-8601 Japan
e-mail: hdkitano@nuagr1.agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp
J. Bennett
IRRI, DAPO Box 7777,
Metro Manila, Philippines,
e-mail: j.bennett@cgiar.org
N. Kurata
NIG, Mishima, 411-8540 Japan
e-mail: nkurata@lab.nig.ac.jp
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