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 adaptability to diversified and unstable ecological conditions, the plant has an asynchronous flowering system in the panicle. The International Rice Research Institute has a collection of panicles with...