| IV. Activities for the Information Exchange 1. Kansas meeting - On July, 5, 1964, Wheat Genetics Planning Session was held in Kansas City, Missouri; attendants were Dr. H. KIHARA from Japan, Dr. E. R. SEARS, Dr. E. G. HEYNE, Dr. J. W. SCHMIDT, Dr. W. Q. LOEGERING, Dr. C. KONZAK and Dr. N. P. NEUREITER from U. S. In this meeting cooperative research relationships between U. S. and Japanese scientists in the general area of wheat genetics were discussed. 2. Dr. C. KONZAK visiting Japan - Coming to Japan m March, 1955 he discussed the cooperative research plans between his group and the Japanese members. Two formal sessions were held, i.e., at the National Institute of Genetics on March 5, and at the Kyoto University on the sixth. 3. Dr. K. NISHIKAWA visiting U. S. - After completing his duty as a research associate in Dr. SEARS' Laboratory, he visited Dr. HEYNE, Dr. SCHMIDT and Dr. KONZAK, and discussed the future plans of the present project. 4. Internal meetings - At the start of this project, all Japanese members gathered on August 31. 1964 at the National Institute of Genetics, setting up a definite working program to be carried out for the 3 year period of the project. On March 13, 1965, the second meeting was held in the same institute to report the results of the first one - year term and to discuss the plans for the second year. The third meeting was held on February 18, 1966, where the results obtained in 1965 was reported. The research activities described above are based on the reports of the last two meetings. (S. M.) |
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