eWIS No.107

Contents:

I.    Research Information

COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF SEMI-DWARF WHEAT GENOTYPES (TRITICUM AESTIVUM L.) FOR YIELD AND YIELD COMPONENTS Karim Dino Jamali , Page 1-4   Segregation analysis of heading time and its related traits in wheat F2 populations between two Nepal landraces and a Japanese cultivar Shiroganekomugi Shigeo Takumi , Page 5-8   Cloning of a wheat cDNA encoding an ortholog of the maize LIGULELESS4 homeobox protein Yoshihito Ishida and Shigeo Takumi , Page 9-12   Class C MADS-box gene AGAMOUS was duplicated in the wheat genome Chizuru Hirabayashi and Koji Murai , Page 13-16   Establishment of 14 wheat lines carrying telosomes of barley chromosome 7H Kazuhiko Sakai, Takashi R. Endo, and Shuhei Nasuda , Page 17-18

II.    Research Opinion & Topics

Marker assisted selection: a strategy for wheat improvement Bhakti Rana etal , Page 19-30   National BioResource Project Wheat: Overview Takashi Endo , Page 31   The report of National Bioresource Project-Wheat II. Seed resources, 2007. Taihachi Kawahara, Takashi R Endo, Tsuneo Sasanuma , Page 32   A report of the project "Polymorphism survey among hexaploid wheat and its relatives by DNA markers" granted by the National Bioresource Project-Wheat, Japan Miyuki Nitta and Shuhei Nasuda , Page 33-35   Annual report of National Bioresource Project-Wheat II. DNA resources, 2007 Yasunari Ogihara, Kanako Kawaura, Hisako Imamura, Keiichi Mochida , Page 36

III.    Meeting Reports

3rd Triticeae workshop Kazuhiro Sato , Page 37-42   Meeting Report of the 11th International Wheat Genetics Symposium Yasunari Ogihara , Page 43

IV.    Others

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