Rice

In Memory of Dr Hei Leung

The rice world lost a much-loved friend and intellectual light with the passing of Hei Leung. Hei was a passionate scientist and caring mentor who dedicated his professional life to rice research and to helping younger colleagues grow in their professions. He played key roles in numerous endeavors from his position at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), contributing to new understandings of the rice genome and to rice blast research. In addition to his many research contributions, Hei provided leadership in the international community to build and distribute rice genetic and genomic resources and contributed to strengthening research capacity in plant pathology in Asia and beyond.

Hei brought a distinctive joy, energy and enthusiasm to science, volleyball and friendship and will be greatly missed.

Read the Obituary here.

Editor-in-Chief

Professor Takuji Sasaki, NODAI Research Institute, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan

Rice aims to fill a glaring void in basic and applied plant science journal publishing. This journal is the world's only high-quality serial publication for reporting current advances in rice genetics, structural and functional genomics, comparative genomics, molecular biology and physiology, molecular breeding and comparative biology. Rice welcomes review articles and original papers in all of the aforementioned areas and serves as the primary source of newly published information for researchers and students in rice and related research.

REVIEW: Genes and Their Molecular Functions Determining Seed Structure, Components, and Quality of Rice

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Pei Li, Yu-Hao Chen, Jun Lu, Ghang-Quan Zhang, Qiao-Quan Liu & Qian-Feng Li

Rice 15:18 2022