Download or read book Recurrent Selection in Rice, Using a Male-sterile Gene written by Marc Châtel and published by CIAT. This book was released on 1997 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving rice populations; Methodologies for managing recurrent selection; Developing populations of recombinant genotypes; Active maintenance of populations; Population improvement; Selecting genotypes for line development; Using recurrent selection: five case studies - Irrigated rice in Goiânia, Brazil: recurrent selection conducted by Embrapa-CNPAF; Upland rice in Villavicencio, Colombia: recurrent selection conducted by CIRAD-CA and CIAT; Resistance to blast and yellow mottle virus in rice, Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire: recurrent selection conducted by CIRAD-CA, IDESSA, and WARDA; High-altitude rice in Vinaninony and Antsirabe, Madagascar: recurrent selection conducted by CIRAD-CA and FOFIFA; Lowland rice subject to alternate periods of flooding and drought in Sikasso, Mali: recurrent selection conducted by CIRAD-CA and IER; Nomenclature for rice improvement by recurrent selection.