Rice Science is an international research journal sponsored by China National Rice Research Institute. It publishes original research papers, review articles, as well as short communications on all aspects of rice sciences in English language. Some of the topics that may be included in each issue are: breeding and genetics, biotechnology, germplasm resources, crop management, pest management, physiology, soil and fertilizer management, ecology, cereal chemistry and post-harvest processing.

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original research papers, review articles, as well as short communications

Editor-in-Chief
Cheng Shihua
China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, China
Vice Editors-in-Chief
Wan Jianmin
Crop Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
Ruan Liuqing
China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, China Email Ruan Liuqing
Members of Editorial Board
Sang-Nag Ahn
Chungnam National University, Daejeon, The Republic of Korea
Jinsong Bao
College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Bui Chi Buu
Institute of Agricultural Sciences for Southern Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Niranjan Chakraborty
National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Jian-Ping Chen
Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
Wenfu Chen
Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China
Bin Han
National Center for Gene Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, China
Peisong Hu
State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Zhejiang, China
Gurdev S. Khush
US National Academy of Sciences, University of California, Davis, USA
Jiayang Li
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China
Ximing Li
State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Institute, Hangzhou, China
Bo LIU
Department of Plant Biology, UC Davis College of Biological Sciences, California, USA
Guangjie Liu
Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Stuttgart, USA
Masahiko Maekawa
Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
César P. Martinez
International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Cali, Colombia
Qian Qian
China National Rice Institute, Hangzhou, China
Edilberto D. Redoña
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, Philippines
Moussa Sie
Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), Cotonou, Benin
Michael J. Stout
Dept. of Entomology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
Piyada Theerakulpisut
Division of Clinical Nutrition, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
Narayana M. Upadhyaya
CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Cailin Wang
Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China
Guo Wang
Dept. of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
Lei Wang
State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Institute, Hangzhou, China
Daniel Lex Ean Waters
Southern Cross Plant Science, Southern Cross University, Goonellabah, Australia
Jianzhong Wu
Institute of Crop Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan
Fangming Xie
Div. Of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Metro Manila, Philippines
Hua’an Xie
Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou, China
Hongwei Xue
Shanghai Inst. of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, China
Jianchang Yang
College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China
Guoyou Ye
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, Philippines
Yusop Mohd Rafii
Institute of Tropical Agriculture, University Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
Hongsheng Zhang
College of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
Defeng Zhu
State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Institute, Hangzhou, China
Youyong Zhu
Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China
Zhiwei Zhu
State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Zhejiang, China