Table of Contents
Foreword vii
Rice drought-prone environments and coping strategies 1
Drought: economic costs and research implications Sushil Pandey Humnath Bhandari 3
Modeling spatial and temporal variation of drought in rice production Robert J. Hijmans Rachid Serraj 19
Recent progress in breeding and genetics of drought resistance 33
Rice germplasm development for drought-prone environments: progress made in breeding and genetic analysis at the International Rice Research Institute G.N. Atlin R. Venuprasad J. Bernier D. Zhao P. Virk A. Kumar 35
Drought research at WARDA: current situation and prospects M. Sié K. Futakuchi H. Gridley S. Mande B. Manneh M.N. Ndjiondjop A. Efisue S.A. Ogunbayo M. Moussa H. Tsunematsu H. Samejima 61
Drought resistance characters and variety development for rainfed lowland rice in Southeast Asia Shu Fukai Jaya Basnayake Ouk Makara 75
Molecular breeding for drought-tolerant rice (Oryza sativa L.): progress and perspectives Zhi-Kang Li Yong-Ming Gao 91
Recent efforts to improve drought resistance of rice in Brazil Flavio Breseghello Cleber Moraes Guimarães Beatriz da Silveira Pinheiro 113
Hamessing quantitative genetics and genomics for understanding and improving complex traits in crops James B. Holland Andrea J. Cardinal 123
Physiological and molecular mechanisms of drought resistance 137
Drought-resistant rice: physiological framework for an integrated research strategy R. Serraj G. Dimayuga V. Gowda Y. Guan Hong He S. Impa D.C. Liu R.C. Mabesa R. Sellamuthu R. Torres 139
The rice root system: from QTLs to genes to alleles Brigitte Courtois Nourollah Ahmadi Christophe Perin Delphine Luquet Emmanuel Guiderdoni171
An integrated systems approach to crop improvement Graeme L. Hammer David Jordan 189
Management of rainfed rice systems 209
Drought-prone rainfed lowland rice in Asia: limitations and management options S.M. Haefele B.A.M. Bouman 211
Enhancing rice productivity in water-stressed environments: perspectives for genetic improvement and management Anil Kumar Singh Viswanathan Chinnusamy 233
Effects of irrigation treatment on rice growth and development: comparing a study of rice farming between nonflooding and flooding cultivation Longxing Tao Xi Wang Huijuan Tan Shihua Cheng 259
Genes and genomics for drought-resistant rice 273
Gene expression analysis and data mining from microarray analysis applied to drought stress in rice Kouji Satoh Koji Doi Toshifumi Nagata Aeni Hosaka Kohji Suzuki Xumei Ji Muturajan Raveendran Hei Leung John Bennett Shoshi Kikuchi 275
Gene discovery for improving drought resistance of irrigated rice by systematic genetic and functional genomics approaches Lizhong Xiong 299
SNP discovery at candidate genes for drought responsiveness in rice Kenneth L. McNally Ma. Elizabeth Naredo Jill Cairns 311
Research activities on drought tolerance of rice at JIRCAS Takashi Kumashiro Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki 325
GM technology for drought resistance Philippe Hervé Rachid Serraj 333
Biotechnology and transposon-tagging for improving drought resistance in rice for Indonesia I.H. Slamet-Loedin S. Purwantomo P.B.F. Ouwerkerk S. Nugroho R. Serraj 351
Bioinformatics for drought resistance Victor Jun Ulat Samart Wanchana Ramil Mauleon Richard Bruskiewich 365
Conclusions and recommendations 383
Drought-resistant rice for increased rainfed production and poverty alleviation: a concept note R. Serraj G. Atlin 385
