Due to delay of editorial business, No.94 of Wheat Information
Service contains less pages than usual. This is not because of
reduction of number of submitted articles, but because of the
increased level of reviewing. Consequently, a considerable number of
contributed article are under reversion. Since WIS is wide-open for
information exchange, articles for Research information
(articles without reviewing) are very much welcome.
New fields of biological science are going to be opened. Accumulation
of cDNA clones, genetical and physical mapping of genes and markers,
micro- and macro-arrays, in silico or bioinformiatics, and so
on. If these ideas and techniques will be jointed and combined to the
genetic materials, studies on evolution, genetic diversity, and
breeding would be on new stages. Already, an international
cooperation for 'wheat genome project' has been proposed, and
discussion about the subjects is going on at the meeting of
International Triticeae Mapping Initiative held in Winnipeg on June,
2002. The next meeting of International Wheat Genetics Symposium will
be one of the places for information exchange on these subjects,
which is planed to be held in Italy, 2003. On these advances, it is
never-the-less to say that materials or genetic stocks are critical
for any kinds of study with genotype or phenotype information. WIS
hopes to accumulate and exchange the information.