Citation: Gurdev S Khush, DS Brar. 2002. Biotechnology for rice breeding: Progress and impact. Pages 1-18. In: Part III. Progress in Rice Genetic Improvement for Food Security. Proceedings of the 20th Session of the International Rice Commission, Bangkok, Thailand.

Keywords: Oryza sativa, rice breeding, wide hybridization, gene transfer from wild rices, cytoplasmic diversification, tagging alien genes with molecular markers, somaclonal variation, genetic engineering, transgenic rice, insect resistance, Agrobacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis, yellow stem borer Scirpophaga incertulas, disease resistance, blast, bacterial blight, sheath blight, tolerance to abiotic stresses, anther culture, molecular maps, molecular marker-aided selection, gene tagging, QLT mapping, pyramiding major genes, synteny relationships, map-based cloning, functional genomics