Recent advances in genome analysis and transformation have made rice a model monocot for molecular biologists. This volume covers four areas of rice molecular biology in which exciting progress has been made re cently _ genome analysis and gene isolation, development, regulation o f gene expression, and transformation and rice improvement. It will be of great interest to researchers who work in traditional agricultural sciences using rice, as well as to those who have an interest in usin g rice as an experimental model for basic research. The book gives an overall view on what has already...