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Keywords: Oryza sativa, rice breeding, rice karyotype, genome analysis, wild rices, linkage groups, gene symbolization in rice, associating linkage groups with chromosomes, international collaboration, genetics of disease and insect pest resistance, tissue culture, transformation, molecular linkage maps, gene tagging, QTL mapping, marker assisted selection, gene pyramiding, physical maps, map based cloning of genes, synteny relationships, alien introgression, structural genomics, functional genomics,