THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL WHEAT GENETICS SYMPOSIUM in Lund-Svalof, Sweden. August 19-24.1963.

Organizing Committee: B. C. Jenkins, Canada (Chairman), A. T. Pugsley, Australia, R. Riley, Great Britain, E. R. Sears, U. S. A., K. Yamashita, Japan, and J. Mac Key, Sweden (Secretary).

Participation: 150-200 participants are expected to attend the symposium.

Language: The language of the symposium will be English.

Demonstrations: A field display of living material will unfortunately not be possible to arrange due to the late time in the season of the symposium. This incident is dependent on the desirability to have the symposium close to the congress of genetics and the decision to hold the latter as late in the season as September 2-12. To some extent a display of material brought together by different specialists could compensate for living material. Everybody interested is thus asked to send material in due time in 1963 for a minor exhibition. Participation in this way should as soon as possible be announced to the secretary. Already this summer may be valuable for the collection of display material!

Tentative program.

August 19, Monday.
	Morning	Opening remarks and address of welcome. SESSION I. Wheat quality. F. J. R. Hird (Australia): Wheat quality in relation to chemical bonds. O. Hall (Sweden): Electrophoretic parameters on wheat quality. J. C. Grosskreutz (USA): Microphysical structure of wheat protein.
	Afternoon	Conducted tour of agricultural areas and historical sites near Lund and a visit to Weibullsholm Plant Breeding Institute, Landskrona.
	Evening	Dinner at Strandpaviljongen, Landskrona. Address by Dr. F. Fajersson (Sweden): Methods and achievements in Swedish wheat breeding.
August 20, Tuesday.
	Morning	SESSION II. Plant breeding methods. A. Vincent (France): Quantitative inheritance and selection for yield. S. Borojevic (Yugoslavia): Combining ability in wheat crosses. C. F. Konzak (USA): Physical and chemical mutagenesis in wheat breeding. R. E. Scossiroli (Italy): Wheat mutagenesis in quantitative traits.
	Afternoon	SESSION III. Disease resistance in wheat. P. Zhukovsky (USSR): Natural sources of disease resistance in wheat. A. T. Pugsley (Australia): The genetics and exploitation of resistance to mildew and take-all. E. E. Sebesta (USA): Wheat viruses and their genetic control. W. Q. Loegering (USA): The relationship between host and pathogen in wheat rust.
	Evening	SESSION III (continued). R. C. F. Macer (Great Britain): The formal and aneuploid genetic analysis of stripe rust resistance. R. G. Anderson (Canada) : The inheritance of leaf rust resistance in wheat. D. R. Knott (Canada): The inheritance of stem rust resistance in wheat.
August 21, Wednesday.
	Morning	SESSION IV. Wheat taxonomy and phylogeny. D. Zohary (Israel): The evolution of genomes in Aegilops and Triticum. Y. Cauderon (France): The genome constitution of Agropyron. M. M. Jakubziner (USSR): Modern Russian aspects on the systematics of wheat. J. Mac Key (Sweden): Species relationship in Triticum.
	Afternoon	Tour of the Swedish Seed Association, Svalof.
	Evening	Dinner at Svalof Hotel, Svalof. Address by Dr. K. Yamashita (Japan): Collections of wheat and wheat relatives in the near East.
August 22, Thursday.
	Morning	SESSION V. Amphiploids and addition to wheat of characters from related genera. V. Pissarev (USSR): Triticale amphidiploids. B. C, Jenkins (USA): Rye substitutions and additions. H. Kihara (Japan): Chromosome and nuclear substitutions involving wheat and Aegilops. A. Wienhues-Ohlendorf (Germany): Agropyron additions to wheat
	Afternoon	SESSION VI. Aneuploidy in wheat genetics. R. I. Larson (Canada): Monosomic analysis of quantitative characters. J. Kuspira (Canada): Reciprocal intervarietal chromosome substitution lines. E. R. Sears and M. Okamoto (USA and Japan): Telocentrics in common and durum wheats. M. Norohna-Wagner (Portugal): Aneuploids in durum wheat.
	Evening	Free.
August 23, Friday.
	Morning	SESSION VII. Cytogenetic structure of wheat. R. Riley (Great Britain): The regulation of chromosome behaviour and the cytogenetic structure of wheat and its relatives, M. Okamoto (Japan): Studies on the chromosome 5B effect. M. S. Swaminathan (India): Mutational analysis of the hexaploid wheat complex. J. G. T. Hermsen (Holland): Genetics of complementary necrosis.
	Afternoon	SESSION VIII. Presentation of short papers of various topics. The program of this session will be settled first in the beginning of 1963. About ten lectures with a duration of 10 - 15 minutes each can be included.
	Evening	Closing banquet at Akademiska Foreningen, Lund. Address by Dr. S. G. Stephens (USA): Evolution in polyploid crop plants.
August 24, Saturday.
	Morning	BUSINESS SESSION. This session will include a short report from the Stock Preservation Committee by E. C. Heyne (USA).

The symposium ends at noon time.