Program report 2000

A long tradition of technical reporting on rice research at IRRI comes to an end with this Program Report for 2000. After 38 annual issues (as partially depicted on the cover at left, which can be enlarged by clicking it)—either as the Annual Report (1962-88) or the Program Report (1989-2000)—this series will cease publication with this installment.

By maintaining and improving various other IRRI publication series (Discussion Papers, Technical Bulletins, and Limited Proceedings), in addition to the availability of refereed journal articles (e.g., the approximately 150 articles listed for 2000 in this Program Report), the possible compilation of certain sets of journal articles by IRRI, articles in formal IRRI workshop and symposium proceedings (five or six annually), and dozens of proceedings from other institutions, IRRI management believes that technical research reporting to other rice scientists will be adequately covered in the future.

Beginning in 2002 (i.e., reporting for 2001), a revamped Report of the Director General will include the detailed staff list, publications and seminars, and donor contribution details that have, up to now, always appeared in this Program Report.

This year’s report brings closure to IRRI's Medium-term Plan as it existed in 2000 and—as in recent years—some programs present a selective, rather than all-encompassing report of projects in the research and international programs. Projects not  reported on in detail are listed at the end of each program section and include  point summaries of accomplishments that were gleaned from the April 2001 Report of the Director General.

An additional note: IRRI is currently digitizing its historic set of scientific publications that cover a period of 41 years. Included in this collection, which will eventually be available online in portable document format (pdf), is this unique set of annual/program reports that provides an unbroken string of scientific investigations in rice over the last four decades.

As always, this year's report is limited to activities that have reached a reportable stage involving analysis, interpretation, and conclusions. A few significant interim results are reported because they may be useful to other rice workers.

Abbreviations of seven research organizational units are:

AE--Agricultural Engineering
CSWS--Crop, Soils, and Water Sciences
EPP--Entomology and Plant Pathology
GRC--Genetic Resources Center
PBGB--Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biochemistry
SS--Social Sciences
SWS--Soil and Water Sciences

All research activities are reported under five research programs:

• Irrigated Rice Ecosystem, pp. 4-24 (pdf report)
• Rainfed Lowland Rice Ecosystem, pp. 26-47 (pdf report)
• Upland Rice Ecosystem, pp. 50-64 (pdf report)
• Cross-ecosystems Research, pp. 68-100 (pdf report)
• Genetic Resources: Conservation, Safe Delivery, and Use, pp.102-108 (pdf report)

Other activities are reported under Accelerating the Impact of Rice Research, pp.112-127.
Click here for a pdf report covering the following: 

• Strengthening Partherships with NARES
• Delivery of Knowledge-Intensive Technologies 
• Collecting, Exchanging, and Distributing Knowledge and Information about Rice
• Human Capital Development of NARES Rice Professionals

Names of IRRI research staff and collaborators are given for most projects or activities. Click here to see the affiliations of of collaborating researchers (desginated by footnotes in the text). Names without a footnote are those of IRRI staff.

Click here for the report from Research Support Services, pp.130-136.
Click here for the listing of publications and seminars by IRRI staff in 2000, pp.137-154.
Click here for a listing of IRRI staff changes in 2000, pp.155-160.
Click here for a listing of abbreviations used in this Report.
 

Other background on this report

The report uses the International System of Units (SI). Monetary units are usually in U.S. dollars ($); if not, exchange rates are provided. Control or check normally means an untreated control and all results reported are based on scientifically accepted experimental design. Grain yield is calculated as rough rice, and protein content as a percentage of brown rice, at 14% moisture content. Yield refers to grain yield unless otherwise noted. Fertilizer amounts are given in terms of the elements (N,P, K, Zn, etc.), not in oxide formulation (P₂O₅, K₂O, etc.). Pedigrees are indicated by a slant bar (/) rather than by a multiplication sign (x). For example, (PTB33 x IR30) x IR36 is written PTB 33/IR30//IR36. Fourth and further crosses are designated /4/, /5/, and so on. Backcrosses are designated by an asterisk (*) and a number that indicates the number of times the recurrent parent is crossed to the other parent. The asterisk and the number are placed adjacent to the crossing symbol that divides the current and donor parents.

Unless otherwise noted, scoring of morphological characters and of damage attributed to rice pests and physiochemical stresses is based on scales in Standard evaluation system for rice (SES), 4th edition, 1996. Copies are available from the International Network for Genetic Evaluation of Rice, IRRI.

In tables, a single asterisk (*) means a difference at the 5% level of significance, and a double asterisk (**) means a significant difference at the 1% level; ns means not significant. Unless otherwise stated, separation of means in table columns is by Duncan's multiple range test at the 5% level.

This report normally uses generic names of chemicals. Use of a commercial brand name does not constitute endorsement.
 

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