Citation: Gurdev S Khush. 1986. Application of chromosome engineering in crop improvement. Pages 162-171. In: Li Zhensheng and M. S. Swaminathan (editors). Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Chromosome Engineering in Plants. Xian, China.

Keywords: Oryza sativa, rice breeding, polyploidy, haploids, autotetraploids, triploids, amphiploids, aneuploidy, intergenomic reorganization, substitution of alien chromosome, radiation-induced translocations, use of wild species,