Citation: Gurdev S Khush, PS Virk. 2000. Rice breeding: achievements and future strategies. Crop Improvement 27 (2): 115-144.

Keywords: Oryza sativa, origin of rice and rice cultivation, plant breeding, wild rices, increasing productivity, short growth duration, multiple insect and plant disease resistance, blast, bacterial blight, grassy stunt, tungro, green leafhopper Nephotettix virescens, brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens, yellow stem borer Scirpophaga incertulas, gall midge Orseolia oryzae, grain quality, cooking quality, tolerance to abiotic stresses, combination of desired traits, impact of modern rices, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, future challenges to meet rice production needs, new plant type, exploitation of heterosis, hybrid rice, biotechnological approaches, mapping/tagging quantitative trait loci, increasing yield stability, genes for insect pest and disease resistance, durability of resistance, micronutrients, iron, zinc, vitamin A, developing germplasm for unfavorable environments, drought, submergence, flooding.