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IV. News

SIXTH INTERNATIONAL WHEAT GENETICS SYMPOSIUM

The International Organizing Committee

Dr. M.S. Swaminathan (Chairman), Dr. M. Feldman,

Dr. C.N. Law. Dr. S.S. Maan, Dr. R.A. McIntosh,

Dr. D. Mettin, Dr. G.T. Scarascia-Mugnozza and

Dr. M. Tanaka (Secretary)

The Organizing Committee of the Sixth International Wheat Genetics Symposium takes pleasure of inviting you to attend the Sixth International Wheat Genetics Symposium to be held in Kyoto, Japan, from November 28 to December 3, 1983.

The six-day Symposium will cover the following tentative topics:

1. Evolution and Speciation

2. Induced and Natural Variation

3. Alien Genetic Material

4. Genetic Analysis

5. Cytogenetics

6. Biochemical and Molecular Genetics

7. Ecological Genetics

8. Cytoplasmic Genetics

9. Quantitative Genetics

10. Tissue and Cell Culture

11. Breeding and Breeding Method

12. Disease and Pest Resistance

13. Wheat Quality

14. Triticale and Hybrid Wheat

There will be both invited papers and contributed papers. The poster demonstration may also be accepted.

Provisional Registration

Those who intend to participate in the Symposium are asked to return the Provisional Registration Form to the Local Coordinating Secretary of the Symposium not later than August 31, 1981.

Submitting this Provisional Registration Form does not imply any obligation, but ensures receiving the Second Circular which will contain detailed informations concerning registration procedures, submission of abstracts and full papers, hotel accommodation, ladies programmes, passports, visas, etc.

If any of your colleagues have not received this notice and will like to make a provisional registration, they may do so by writing directly to the Local Coordinating Secretary.

Expected Schedules before the Symposium
Sending of the First Circular April, 1981
Closing date of the Provisional Registration August 31, 1981
Sending of the Second Circular August, 1982
Closing date of the registration December, 1982

(registration fee, proposal of contribution, abstract of paper, space of poster demonstration, hotel accommodation and ladies programmes)

Sending of the First Circular April, 1983
Closing date of manuscript for the proceedings June, 1983


Weather and Dress

The weather in Kyoto during the period of the Symposium is cool and changeable, the temperature averaging 9C (max. 14o - min. 4C). Light winter dress is recommended.

Local Organizing Committee: M. Tanaka (Chairman), M. Muramatsu, K. Nishikawa, M. Okamoto, H. Ono, S. Sakamoto, M. Sasaki, H. Suemoto and K. Tsunewaki. Please address all correspondence to:

Dr. S. Sakamoto
Local Coordinating Secretary
Sixth International Wheat Genetics Symposium
Plant Germ-plasm Institute
Faculty of Agriculture
Kyoto University
Mozume, Muko. Kyoto 617,
Japan

       

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