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Number 87: 42-50 (1998)
Record
The 26th
Japanese Wheat Genetics Symposium, June 19-21, 1998
Introductary remarks
Koichiro Tsunewaki (Fukui Prefectural University)
The 26th Japanese Wheat Genetics Symposium was held at the
Fukui Prefectural University in June 19-21, 1998. The Local
Organizing Committee consisting of K. Tsunewaki (Chairman), S. Ohta
and Y. Matsuoka was. in charge of its organization and management.
The symposium involved three special lectures, six sessions of 24
research papers in total, open-discussion session, business session,
and a post-symposium tour. Total number of the attendants were 113
belonging to 21 different institutions, including seven researchers
from five foreign countries.
The special lectures delivered are; "Gene analysis on sex
determination and sexual organ development from liverwort,
Marchantia polymorpha" by K. Ohyama, Kyoto University,
"Complete sequence of wheat chloroplast DNA" by Y. Ogihara, Yokohama
City University, and "Examining genetic structure and history of
species through DNA analysis: Case studies in marine biology" by M.
Nishida, Fukui Prefectural University. The titles of the six oral
sessions were; (1) structural stability of mitochondrial genome (two
papers), (2) structure of wheat chloroplast genome (two papers), (3)
analysis of stress-responsive genes and haploid breeding (three
papers), (4) genetic control of reproduction and viability in
Triticeae (six papers), (5) genome differentiation revealed from the
studies on repetitive sequences (four papers), and (6) polymorphism
and intraspecific differentiation in Triticeae (six papers). The
abstracts of all research papers are presented in this issue of Wheat
Information Service.
In the evening of June 19, a free-talking session was held. Its topic
was "Future breakthrough of wheat genetics". In the business session,
five agenda were discussed and agreement was made as follows; (1)
version-up of the Japanese wheat stock database, "KOMUGI", was
proposed by T. Sasakuma and the member substations agreed to
up-to-date their data in "KOMUGI", (2) T. R. Endo asked opinion of
the attendants on his idea to propose the establishment of an
international database network at the workshop on wheat stock
maintenance, that is scheduled during the 9th International Wheat
Genetics Symposium, and a suggestion was made not to consider a
world-scale network at present, but to form a network between the
existing databases and to connect new ones whenever they are
established, (3) change of the present name of the symposium to
"Triticeae Genetics Symposium" was proposed by T. Kawahara, and the
agreement was made that it is not suitable to make decision at this
symposium and should wait until the next symposium, (4) necessity for
an adjustment on the time when the Wheat Genetics Symposium and the
Workshop on Triticeae Molecular Biology would be held was pointed out
by K. Tsunewaki, and an agreement was made that the former symposium
is held once for every two years while the latter workshop every
year, and that the former should be planned at the same site and in
an adjacent period to the latter when both are held in the same year,
and (5) site of the 27th Wheat Genetics Symposium was decided to be
Gifu University and Y. Furuta, professor there, addressed his
willingness to become its host.
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