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Wheat Information Service
Number 78: 39-42 (1994)


III. Record

The 24th wheat genetics symposium Japan


On 29th of March, 1994, at Kyoto, the 24th Wheat Genetics Symposium Japan had been held, organized by Dr. Kozo Nishikawa (Kihara Memorial Foundation), where about 50 Japanese wheat geneticists and breeders had discussed on the subject of genetic stock conservation and its network construction in wheat and its related species. Because of the tradition of wheat researches in Japan, they are proud of conserving various genetic stocks including wild spcecies accessions, artifical amphiploids, aneuploids, cytoplasmic substitution lines, and chromosome deletion lines. The symposium concluded that these genetic stocks were common properties for plant reserchers of the world, and should be maintained cooperatively under an international network system. They agreed to organize a working group for initiating the construction of a network for wheat genetic stock conservation.

The program of the symposium was as follows;


Special Lectures.
I. 　 Preservation of barley genetic stocks in Okayama University.
　　　　 Dr. Shozo Yasuda (Okayama Women's College).

II. 　Cereal improvement at ICARDA -- An international approach.
　　　　 Dr. Muhammad Tahir (ICARDA)

III.　On the concept and practise of networking.
　　　　 Dr. Hirotoyo Ishii (University of Library Science)


Reports

1. Wheat genetic resources conservation in Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery of Japan: Toshiaki Yamada (Agriculture Research Center)

2. A declaration on genetic stocks by Japan Academy: Koichiro Tsunewaki (Kyoto University)

3. Function of Germplasm Institute, Kyoto University: Sadao Sakamoto (Kyoto University)

4. Problems concerning conservation of aneuploid series: Yoshihiko Furuta (Gifu University)

5. Short reports on the present status of genetic stock and DNA clone conservation

(1) Oversea: Wheat Germ Resource Center (Kansas State Univ.) by T. R. Endo (Nara Univ.).

(2) Domestic: DNA clones by Y. Ogihara (Yokohama City Univ.), T. Terachi (Kyoto Sangyo Univ.), Seeds by T. Shimada and K. Murai (Ishikawa Agri. Coll.), K. Tsunewaki (Kyoto Univ.), T. Sasakuma and H. Tsujimoto (Yokohama City Univ.), N. Nakata (Tottori Univ.), C. Nakamura (Kobe Univ.), J. Fujigaki (Tokyo Agri. Univ.), K. Kato (Kochi Univ.), A. Yanagisawa (Hokkaido Pref. Genetic Resource Center), T. Morikawa (Osaka Pref. Univ.), K. Nishikawa (Kihara Memorial Found.)

The content of Dr. Tahir's lecture is literated as shown in the review article of WIS 78. The summaries of lectures by Drs. Yasuda and Yamada are outlined in the follwing pages.

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