CONTENTS:- Part I: Foreword/M.S. Swaminathan. Introduction. A. General: 1. Genetic improvement of rice varieties of India in historical and socio-economic perspective/S.D. Sharma. B. Central institutes: 2. Role of central rice research institute in genetic improvement of rice varieties of India/S.N. Ratho. 3. Role of directorate of rice research in genetic improvement of rice varieties of India/U. Prasada Rao. 4. Role of Indian Agricultural Research Institute in Genetic improvement of rice varieties in India/V.P. Singh, Pratik Satya, S. Gopalakrishnan and A.K. Singh. 5. Role of Central Soil Salinity Research Institute in genetic improvement of rice varieties of India/R.K. Singh and B. Mishra. 6. Role of ICAR Research Complex for Northeastern hill region in genetic improvement of rice varieties of northeastern hill states/A. Pattanayak and H.S. Gupta. C. States: 7. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Andhra Pradesh/Narendra Kulkarni. 8. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Assam/K.K. Sharma and T. Ahmed. 9. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Bihar/R. Thakur. 10. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh/M.N. Srivastava and Arvind Kumar. 11. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Gujarat/Atul M. Mehta and A.R. Pathak. 12. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Haryana/D.V.S. Panwar. 13. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Himachal Pradesh/P. C. Katoch, R.P. Kaushik, S.L. Sharma and B.D. Sharma. 14. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Jammu and Kashmir/B.D. Sharma, Shafiq A. Wani and N.A. Zeerak. 15. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Jharkhand/P.K. Sinha and N.P. Mandal. Part II: Foreword/M.S. Swaminathan. Introduction. 16. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Karnataka/B. Vidyachandra and M.P. Rajanna. 17. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Kerala/Leena Kumary S. 18. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Maharashtra/V.N. Deshpande, B.D. Waghmode and R.R. Madav. 19. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Orissa/D. Pani and B.C. Patra. 20. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Punjab/G.S. Sidhu and Jaswant Singh. 21. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Rajasthan/R.S. Tripathi and Rajesh Pandya. 22. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Tamil Nadu/M. Subramanian, K. Thiyagarajan, R. Kalaiyarasi and S. Sundar. 23. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Uttaranchal/S.C. Mani and R.K. Sharma. 24. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Uttar Pradesh : i. Genetic improvement/C.H. Misra and N. Pandey. ii. Description of rice varieties/J.L. Dwivedi and A.K. Tripathi. 25. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in West Bengal/S.K. Samanta and S. Mallik. D. Union territories: 26. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Andaman and Nicobar Islands/Asit B. Mandal, N.D. Majumder, Bikash Chowdhury, Bidhan Roy and R. Elanchezhian. 27. Genetic improvement of rice varieties in Pondicherry/Mohan A. Savery. E. Private sector: 28. Participation of private sector in genetic improvement of rice varieties of India/U. Prasad Rao. F. Appendices: i. Explanation of Indian words used. ii. Explanation of abbreviations used.
DESCRIPTION
The present book Genetic Improvement of Rice Varieties of India has one general chapter, five chapters dealing with the contribution made by the national institutes, twenty one chapters dealing with the work done in states and union territories and one chapter about the role of private sector. Each chapter on a national institute describes the mandate of that institute with regard to rice improvement and the work done on varietal improvement of rice at that institute. It ends with an appendix that describes in detail all the rice varieties bred at that institute. Each 'state' chapter provides a brief description of the physiography, climate and agroclimatic zones of the state, production and productivity of rice in the state, traditional varieties grown traditional cultural practices followed and biotic and abiotic stress situations in the state. It is followed by the organizational set up of rice research in the state. It describes the varietal improvement work done before the advent of high yielding rice varieties in brief and after the high yielding rice varieties in detail. Each chapter ends in an appendix describing in detail all the rice varieties released by that state. The text is supported with data, tables, maps and figures. The book provides first hand information on the work done at each central institute and state as the chapters are written by those who are directly associated with the concerned institute or the state. A uniform outline has been followed for all the chapters to maintain uniformity and consistency throughout the book.
