Progresses in Research on Heat Tolerance in Rice

Nowadays abnormal short-period high temperatures take place more frequently with the rapid globalized industrialization resulting in greenhouse effect, so high temperature has already become one of the main disastrous factors in crop production. The advances in research of the effect of high temperature on growth,yield,quality,physiological and biochemical characters of rice and genetics and breeding of heat tolerance of rice and the measures to overcome the harm of high temperature to rice production were reviewed. Meanwhile, the further research fields of heat tolerance of rice were also suggested for the future.