Wheat Information Service (WIS) and its Business Office will close in June 2005 with the publication of No. 100 as a commemorative issue. As mentioned in the "Important Announcement on WIS - Discontinuance of Publication" by Dr. Kozo Nishikawa, the Editor-in-Chief, the prime aim of WIS is to promote "exchanging information about wheat genetics and breeding among wheat researchers in the world" (No. 98, 2004). In appreciation of the significant role WIS has played over the last half a century, the community of Japanese wheat geneticists has decided to continue promotion of exchanging information through the World Wide Web. Four scientists, S. Nasuda, S. Takumi, Y. Matsuoka, and T. Sasanuma voluntarily will take part in the editing of the electronic version of WIS (tentatively called "eWIS"). The details of eWIS are now being discussed. The following points have been agreed among the four scientists who will constitute the Editorial Office of eWIS:

(1) The aim of eWIS is to promote communications among wheat researchers.
(2) Submitted materials will be published as non-peer-reviewed articles.
(3) eWIS is published online only and distributed through the "KOMUGI" web page (UTL, http://shigen.lab.nig.ac.jp/wheat/komugi/top/top.jsp) .

Editorial policies and article guidelines of eWIS will appear in the forthcoming issue of WIS and on the web page of "KOMUGI". We welcome comments and suggestions from everybody. Please feel free to write us.

11th December, 2004

eWIS Editorial Office
    Shuhei Nasuda (Kyoto University, nasushu@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp)    
    Shigeo Takumi (Kobe University, takumi@kobe-u.ac.jp)   
    Yoshihiro Matsuoka (Fukui Prefectural University, matsuoka@fpu.ac.jp )   
    Tsuneo Sasanuma (Yokohama City University, sasanuma@yokohama-cu.ac.jp)