During recent decades, tremendous progress and innovations have been
made in rice science with the goal of increasing production to meet the
world's growing demands. This new volume provides a concise overview of
rice, covering the background and importance of rice; origin, evolution,
and domestication of rice; and the world rice production. It goes on to
provide new and important recent research advances on many different
aspects of rice science and production. The authors look at advances in
rice ideotypes, abiotic stress management techniques, biotic stress
affecting crop productivity, new methods and technology for cultivation,
and new methods and techniques in rice grain quality analysis and
processing. It also describes new rice varieties, new hybrid rice
technology, and new breeding methods for rice.