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2. Book
Proceedings of International Symposium: Wheat Breeding Prospect and
Future Approaches
(400 pages with 86 scientific papers)
The present collection comes as a result of the efforts and work of
scientists in the field of genetics and selection of wheat, who have
participated in the International Symposium "Wheat Breeding --
Prospects and Future Approaches" held on 4-8 June 1990 in the resort
of Albena, Bulgaria. The aim of the Symposium was to gather in one
place scientists in the fields of selection and biotechnologies,
phytopathologists and other researchers, in order to exchange views
regarding the future development and direction of wheat
selection.
During the past 20 years, selection has demonstrated marked
achievements, especially as concerns productivity. At the present
time, however, new problems arise, mostly concerning the protection
of the environment. This has meant the creation of new varieties,
resistant to diseases, which do not require chemical treatment. The
creations of varieties with minimal requirements regarding nitrates,
especially nitrogen, the assimilation of hard to acquire phosphates,
the processing of these elements and their storage in the grains, are
of paramount importance. Draught-resistance is also of significant
importance for obtaining stable crop yields. Resistance against other
stress factors assumes primary importance for certain regions.
Evidently selection aiming toward increase of productivity in linked
above all to ecological flexibility and resistance to stress factors.
Undoubtedly, a principal condition in wheat cultivation is that
production should be cheaper and possess a much higher quality. All
this predetermines the need for creation of diverse varieties of
wheat from fodder-wheat of high agrotechnical quality to high grade
flexible and economically effective varieties. This aim, coupled with
the efforts of many scientists in the field of selection,
agrochemists, physiologists and other specialists, will find their
relization in new varieties, suitable for cultivation in the year
2000. We hope that varieties of this kind will correspond to the
greatest extent to the complex environmental condition of the future.
The experience of numerous specialists, without a shadow of doubt
will contribute towards the attainment of this goal, which was one of
the foremost tasks of the Symposium. Prof. I. Panayotov, Ph. D. (from
Preface of the proceedings)
To purchase or get detailed information, contact:
Prof. I. Panayotov
Institute for Wheat and Sunflower "Dobroudja"
Agricultural Academy of Bulgaria
near General Toshevo
Bulgaria
Nuclear and Organellar Genomes in Wheat Species: Proceedings of
Dr. H. Kihara Memorial International Symposium on Cytoplasmic
Engineering in Wheat
International symposium on Cytoplasmic Engineering in Wheat
(ISCEW) was held at Hokkaido University, Sapporo Japan in July 4-6,
1991, in commemoration of Dr. Hitoshi Kihara (See WIS 73: 60-62). The
symposium was organized to exchange information and ideas between
molecular biology and classical genetics from basic evolutionary
studies to applied breeding. Proceedings from the symposium have been
just published from Kihara Memorial Foundation, entitling "Nuclear
and Organellar Genomes in Wheat Species" (edited by T. Sasakuma,
Kihara Institute for Biological Research)
The 310-page book contains 35 research articles, consisting of the
five sections: 1) Histrical backgrounds of cytoplasmic genetics in
wheat species, 2) Nuclear genomes, 3) Organellar genomes and genes,
4) Nucleus- cytoplasm interactions, and, 5) New approaches of wheat
breeding. Four special lectures were also included, namely; 1)
Progress of NC-heterosis studies in wheats by Dr. T. Kinoshita
(Hokkaido University), 2) Histrical review of studies on cytoplasms
in wheat and its relatives by Dr. K. Tsunewaki (Kyoto University), 3)
mRNA editing and tRNA import in plant mitochondria by Dr. J. H. Weil
(University of L. Pasteur), and 4) Nuclear and cytoplasmic control of
anther culture in responses in wheat by C. F. Konzak (Washington
State University).
Price of the book is 5000 yen (including mailing cost), and can be
purchased by mail order to;
Kihara Memorial Foundation
Mutsukawa 3-122-20, Minami-ku,
Yokohama 232, Japan
Fax: 045-715-0022
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