The present issue of Wheat Information Service No. 95 includes "Catalogue of gene symbols for wheat: 2002 supplemen" in addition to the articles of seven original papers, three information and one ''genetic stock. We wish to express special appreciation to the continuous efforts by the editors of the Gene Catalogue. Enormous information accumulated in the Catalogue is undoubtedly the basis of bioinformatics together with the information of DNA sequences.

In these years the media for exchanging information have been largely changed . Now Internet may be the most suitable medium in regard to reliability, speediness, and cost/performance. Nevertheless, a great volume of scientific journals has been still published as hard copies. We have started to consider the suitable medium for Wheat Information Service. We want to ask for your opinion.

This year, we have received manuscripts twice as many as those in these years, which caused delay of reviewing the manuscripts. The rate of acceptance is about 50%. We would like to ask the contributors to prepare the manuscript carefully following "Instruction to Authors" on the back of the cover page.