The 10th International Wheat Genetics Symposium is going to be held soon in coming September in Italy. The 2ndcircular announcement of the Symposium is cited in this volume p46, and the details should be in Web-site www.cerealicoltura.it. Various important achievements will be presented, and serious but sincere discussion is expected there.
It is worthwhile recalling the brief history of IWGS and Wheat Information Service because the l0th anniversary of IWGS is in Italy and WIS is approaching to be issued for 50 years. It was in 1953 when 26 pioneers of wheat scientists from nine countries gathered in a room of Grand Hotel Bretagne at Bellagio, Italy, on the occasion of the IX International Congress of Genetics to discuss on promotion of wheat genetics research under international information exchange and cooperation. The discussion concluded three important issues; 1) organization of International Wheat Genetics Symposium, 2) establishment of Wheat Information Service, and 3) establishment of genetic stock centers of wheat and its wild species in Beltsville (USA) and Kyoto (Japan). Since then, WIS has been published to reach Vol. 96, and IWGS is increasing its attendance as listed below.

In this number of WIS, 7 research articles, 1 Genetic stock and Record (abstracts of papers read at the 28th Japanese Wheat Genetics Symposium) are included. We should say again that articles for Research information will be most welcome to be published in WIS. Also, please follow the instruction of manuscript preparation because some of contributed papers were over 5 pages in print (note about 810 words in a printed page), or figures are poorly prepared not suitable to direct photo-printing.
Dr. McIntosh had sent the latest supplement of gene catalogue. However, since it will be renewed and formally registered in the coming symposium, it was not included in this issue. On the other hand, the gene catalogue is now available on web in KOMUGI (http://www.shigen.nig.ac.jp/wheat/komugi/genes) for test version, and it is, also, a matter of issues for discussion in 10th IWGS.
We are looking forward to seeing many of you soon in Italy, and give us valuable suggestion for editing WIS.