水稻的目標是填補基礎和應用植物科學雜志出版的一個明顯的空白。該雜志是世界上唯一高質量的系列出版物，報道了水稻遺傳學、結構和功能基因組學、比較基因組學、分子生物學和生理學、分子育種和比較生物學的最新進展。水稻歡迎在上述所有領域發表評論文章和原創論文，并為水稻和相關研究的研究人員和學生提供最新出版信息的主要來源。

Rice aims to fill a glaring void in basic and applied plant science journal publishing. This journal is the world's only high-quality serial publication for reporting current advances in rice genetics, structural and functional genomics, comparative genomics, molecular biology and physiology, molecular breeding and comparative biology. Rice welcomes review articles and original papers in all of the aforementioned areas and serves as the primary source of newly published information for researchers and students in rice and related research.