Citation: Gurdev S Khush, D. S. Brar and J. Bennett. 1998. Apomixis in rice and prospects for its use in heterosis breeding. Pages 297-309 In Virmani, S.S., E.A. Siddiq and K. Muralidharan, eds. Advances in hybrid rice technology. Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Hybrid Rice. 14-16 Nov. 1996. International Rice Research Institute, P.O. Box 933, Manila, Philippines.

Keywords: Oryza sativa, rice breeding, screening wild Oryza germplasm for apomixis, wild rices, mutagenesis to induce apomixis, molecular approaches to engineering apomixis in rice, synthetic apomixis, cell cycle control in the nucellus