Breeding rice for drought-prone environments
By: edited by K.S. Fischer ... [et al.].
Contributors: Fischer, K. S.; International Rice Research Institute.
Publisher: IRRI
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [Los Baños]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
Notes: Includes CD-ROM inserted in pocket attached to p. [3] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 58-61).
Table of contents: title: Know your target environment / K.S. Fischer ... [et al.]; title: Improving drought tolerance by selecting for yield / G. Atlin; title: Managing water for controlled drought in breeding plots / R. Lafitte; title: Experimental design and data management / G. McLaren; title: How rice responds to drought / K.S. Fischer and S. Fukai; title: Using secondary traits to help identify drought-tolerant genotypes / R. Lafitte, A. Blum, and G. Atlin; title: Indirect selection for physiological traits for drought tolerance / D.J. Mackill, S. Fukai, and A. Blum; title: What molecular tools are available for selection for drought tolerance? / D.J. Mackill; title: Designing a national breeding program for developing drought-tolerant rainfed lowland varieties, the Thailand experience / Boonrat Jongdee; title: A regional breeding program to develop drought-tolerant rainfed lowland germplasm, IRRI's experience in South and Southeast Asia / Surapong Sarkarung; title: Integrating selection for drought tolerance into a breeding program, the Brazilian experience / Beatriz da Silveira Pinheiro; title: Using marker-aided selection for a specific drought-tolerance trait / B. Courtois and R. Lafitte.