Introduction –
Rice as a short-day plant –
Growth phases –
Basic vegetative phase –
Photoperiod-sensitive phase –
Photoinductive cycles –
Reception of the photoperiodic stimulus and translocation –
Light intensity and quality –
Interruption of the dark period –
Days from photoinductive treatment of flowering –
Biochemical changes during photoinduction–
Effect of temperature on the flowering response to photoperiod –
Measurements and methods of testing photoperiod sensitivity –
Date-of-planting experiments –
Ecology and photoperiodism –
Terminology used in describing photoperiod sensitivity –
Inheritance of vegetative growth duration –
Problems in the study of the rice plant's photoperiodism.

"This review has been an important reference in understanding the rice plant."