During October 21-26 2012,the 10th International Congress on Plant Molecular Biology was held at the International Conversion Center of the beautiful Jeju Island, Korea. Prof. Bin Han and Dr. Xuehui Huang were invited to give talks at the session "Emerging Issues in Plant Biology: Genome-Wide Association Mapping" on Tuesday, 23 Oct. The title of the talk of Prof. Bin Han was "Large population-scale genome sequencing for rice domestication study". Dr. Xuehui Huang gave a talk on the "GWAS in cultivated and wild rice populations".