Panicle Architecture of Rice and its Relationship with Grain Filling

This book shows the importance of rice for human consumption. It focuses on the rice panicle, its morphology and characteristics. High genetic diversity of rice has been economically profitable for mankind; the crop provides food calories to half of the human race on earth and because of its adaptab...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mohapatra, Pravat K., Sahu, Binod Bihari (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Importance of rice as human food
  • Chapter 2. Botany of rice plant
  • Chapter 3. Ontogeny of organ development in rice plant
  • Chapter 4. Fertilization and seed development in rice
  • Chapter 5. The cellular basis of rice seed growth
  • Chapter 6. Genetic analyses of floral development on rice panicle
  • Chapter 7. Diversity of panicle architecture and traits influencing grain filling
  • Chapter 8. Change of panicle architecture during domestication
  • Chapter 9. Physiology of variation in individual grain weight of rice panicle
  • Chapter 10. Enzymes controlling starch biosynthesis
  • Chapter 11. Hormonal regulation of spikelet development
  • Chapter 12. Effects of environmental stresses on physiological factors influencing grainfilling of rice panicle
  • Chapter 13. Designer rice in quest of high grain filling