Annual Wheat Newsletter

Volume 42
Table of Contents

• MINUTES OF THE WHEAT CROP GERMPLASM COMMITTEE
• MINUTES OF THE NATIONAL WHEAT IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE (NWIC) MEETING
• WHEAT WORKER'S CODE OF ETHICS

• PRIVATE COMPANIES
• AGRIPRO SEEDS, INC.
  • Delta Soft Red Winter Wheat. J. Barton Fogleman, Jr. and Chris L. Grimes.
  • Hard winter wheat. Steve Askelson, Jerry Brick, Scott Seifert, Tom Griess and John Moffatt.
  • Hard spring wheat. Scott Jacobs, Krista Algien, Joe Smith and Blake Cooper.
  • Midwest soft red winter wheat research. Koy E. Miskin, Curtis L. Beazer, C. Eugene Glover, and Dayna L. Scruggs, Brookston.
• GOERTZEN SEED RESEARCH Kevin Goertzen, Sid Perry and Dana Shellberg.
• HYBRID WHEAT AUSTRALIA Peter Wilson and David Bonnett.
• HYBRINOVA
  • 1994-95 season. Alain Gervais.
  • Northern Breeding Station, 60. Stephen D. Sunderwirth.
  • Southern Breeding Station, 32. Christian Quandalle.
• NICKERSON SEEDS LTD. W J Angus, R E Granger, and I Foot.
• NORTHRUP KING COMPANY June Hancock and Craig Allen.
• OR SEED BREEDING CO.
  • Release of OR 1. O.S. Rosa and A.C. Rosa.
• PANNAR (PTY) LTD. F. du Toit, S.S. Walters, A. Brummer, and P. Thorpe.
• PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
  • Windfall, IN. Gregory C. Marshall, William J. Laskar, and Kyle J. Lively.
  • St. Matthews, South Carolina. Benjamin E. Edge and Phil Shields.
  • Parndorf, Austria. Guenther Reichenberger.
  • Frouville, France. G. Dorlencourt, Steven Bentley, Robert Marchand, Elie Guillard, and Quitterie Vanderpol.
  • Sissa (near Parma), Italy. Mauro Tanzi.
  • Sevilla, Spain. Jose M. Urbano and Maximiliano Hidalgo.
  • Blissworth, Northampton, UK. Paul Wilson.
• WESTERN PLANT BREEDERS, INC.
  • Southern research. Kim Shantz, Doug Holen.
  • Northern research. Dale Clark, Craig Cook, Earl Giard, and Jeanne Heilig.
  • Midwest research. Greg Fox.
• AUSTRALIA
  • Starch quality in wheat and related species. K. Adhikari, J. Bell, L.W. Burgess, G.N. Brown, C. Zhao, H-S. Hwang, S. Johnston, D.R. Marshall, J.D. Oates, R.F. Park, J.E. Roake, P.J. Sharp, S.X-Ren, D. Singh, F.L. Stoddard, A. Thomas, M. Turner, and C.R. Wellings -- University of Sydney: PBI Cobbitty and Department of Crop Sciences.
  • Rust pathogenicity surveys.
  • Host resistance studies.
  • 1994-1995 season. L. O'Brien, F.W. Ellison, D.J. Mares, and S.G. Moore -- University of Sydney: IA Watson Wheat Research Centre.
  • Wheat breeding program. Paul Brennan, Phillip Banks, John Sheppard, Lloyd Mason, Peter Keys, Richard Uebergang, Wayne Crighton, Peter Agius, Martin Fiske, and Peter Horne -- Queensland Wheat Research Institute
  • Possible releases in 1996.
  • Wheat quality. D.J. Martin, B.G. Stewart, L.M. Stewart-Gwynne, and K. Rogers.
  • Resistance to black point. P.M. Williamson and R.G. Rees.
  • Resistance to Pyrenophora tritici-repentis. R.G. Rees, P.S. Brennan, P.M. Banks, K.C.M. Blaikie, and G.J. Platz.
  • Soilborne disease research. G.B. Wildermuth, R.B. McNamara, and T.M. Sparks.
  • Production of doubled haploids. S.J. Kammholz, M.L. Fiske, and I.C. Haak.
  • Germplasm enhancement program for high yield and protein in the northern region. M. Cooper, M.A. Fabrizius, and P.S. Brennan -- University of Queensland
  • The association between T1BL-1RS and grain yield in Queensland environments. A.S. Peake and M. Cooper.
  • Development of optimum strategies for multi-environment testing in the northern region. I. DeLacy and J. Sheppard.
  • Locating protein markers for wheat quality attributes. R. Ramage and M. Sutherland -- University of Southern Queensland
  • Molecular markers for wheat extensibility. W. Ma and G. Daggard.
• AUSTRIA
  • Research activities on Fusarium head blight (scab) of wheat. H. Grausgruber, H. Buerstmayr, M. Lemmens, F. Moule, M. Fidesser, and P. Ruckenbauer -- Institute of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Department of Plant Breeding, University of Agriculture
• BRAZIL
  • Wheat leaf rust. A.L. Barcellos and M.C. Medeiros -- National Research Center for Wheat -- EMBRAPA
  • Release of EMBRAPA 40. C.N.A. de Sousa, A.L. Barcellos, A.M. Prestes, E.N. Guarienti, E.P Gomes, J.C.S. Moreira, J.F. Sartori, L. de J.A. Del Duca, P.L. Scheeren, S.D. dos A. e Silva, and W.I. Linhares.
  • 1995 Wheat Cultivar Yield Trials in Passo Fundo, Brazil. J.C.S. Moreira and C.N.A. de Sousa.
  • Observations on cultivar resistance to scab. C.N.A. de Sousa.
  • A survey for the presence of Ne genes. C.N.A. de Sousa.
  • Wheat soilborne mosaic virus. A.M. Prestes, P.L. Scheeren, C.N.A. de Sousa, M. Barbosa, and L.R. Goulart.
  • Clipping trials to test wheats for dual purposes aimed at establishing sustainable agrosystems. I.J.A. del Duca and R.S. Fontaneli.
  • Plant health and agronomic and baking characteristcs of wheat cultivars and lines of the Paraná State Yield Trials, 1995. L.J.A. del Duca, C.N.A. de Sousa, E.M. Guarienti, and W.I. Linhares.
  • Distribution by state of the main Brazilian wheat cultivars in 1994-95. L.J.A. del Duca and P.L. Scheeren.
• BULGARIA
  • Winter wheat breeding. D. Boyadjieva, A. Dimov, P. Stancova, V. Vasilev, M. Mangova, and Hr. Philipov -- Institute for Plant Genetic Resources
• CANADA
  • Statistics of Canada's November estimate of 1995 wheat production on the prairies. Agriculture and Agri-food Canada
  • Identification of extra-strong dough-mixing properties by electrophoretic analysis. O.M. Lukow and T.F. Townley-Smith.
  • Wheat double haploids. N.K. Howes, T. Aung, R.I.H. McKenzie, D. Brown, and T.F. Townley-Smith.
  • Rheological properties of freshly washed out glutens of wheats possessing identical HMW-glutenin subunits (2*, 7+8, 5+10). A. Hussain and O.M. Lukow.
  • Influence of chromosome constitution on the gene expression of seed morphology and endosperm proteins. T. Aung, A. Hussain and O.M. Lukow.
  • Stable D-chromosome disomic addition lines and specific molecular markers. T. Aung, X. Sun, and J.D. Procunier.
  • Virulence of wheat leaf rust in Canada in 1995. J.A. Kolmer.
  • Using doubled haploids to incorporate tolerance to wheat streak mosaic virus in western Canadian hard red spring wheat germplasm. S. Haber, T. Aung, T.F. Townley-Smith, and E. Czarnecki.
  • Pasta disc viscoelasticity. M.I.P. Kovacs, J.S. Noll, G. Dahlke, and D. Leisle.
  • Durum wheat quality: comparison of chemical and rheological screening tests with sensory analysis. M.I.P. Kovacs, L.M. Poste-Flynn, D. Leisle, G. Dahlke, J.S. Noll, S.M. Woods, and G.S. Butler.
• CHINA
  • Wheat breeding. Z.J. Lin, Q.R. Lai, R.Z. Fu, G.C. Cao, J.S. Ma, Y.R. Sun, Z.K. Chen, and M.L. Yi -- Wheat Institute, Zhengshou, Henan
  • The effectiveness of population improvement through recurrent selection for scab resistance in wheat using the dominant male-sterile gene ms2. Guo-Liang Jiang, Shi-Rong Yu, Xi-Zhong Wei, You-Jia Shen, Yong Xu, Zhao-Xia Chen, and Shi-Jia Liu -- Wheat Breeding Institute, Nanjing
  • Screening white wheat germplasm for preharvest sprouting tolerance.
  • A preliminary study on inheritance of sprouting tolerance in white wheat.
  • Rational evaluation of cultivars in wheat cultivar registration.
  • Development of cultivars and germplasm.
• CROATIA
  • The breeding of hard winter wheat (T. durum Desf.) in Croatia. S. Tomasovic and P. Javor -- Institute for Breeding and Production of Field Crops
• THE CZECH REPUBLIC
  • Evaluation of wheat and triticale collections in the Czech gene bank. Z. Stehno, L. Dotlacil, and M. Vlasák.
  • Results of testing winter wheats for resistance to barley yellow dwarf virus. J. Vacke, V. Sip, and M. Skorpik.
  • Genes for resistance to leaf and stem rusts and powdery mildew in winter wheat cultivars registered in the Czech Republic in 1995. P. Bartos and R. Hanusova.
  • Use of the GA-insensitive gene Rht1 in wheat breeding. V. Sip, M. Skorpik, and J.Chrpova.
• ESTONIA
  • Alien chromatin detection and disease resistance gene identification in introgressive lines of common wheat. K. Jarve, H. Peusha, M. Tohver, S. Tamm, L. Timofejeva, E. Tsimbalova, O. Priilinn, and T. Enno.
• GERMANY
  • RFLP mapping of genes controlling dwarfness and crossability with rye. A. Börner, V. Korzun, I.M. Ben Amer, and S. Stracke; and A. Fürste.
  • Tissue culture ability.
  • Adult plant resistance to yellow rust.
  • Triticale cytogenetics and breadmaking quality. M.E. Kazman.
  • Cytological and SDS-PAGE characterization of 1994-95-grown European wheat cultivars. M.E. Kazman and V. Lein.
• GUATEMALA
  • 1994-95Season. Valentin Azanon, Rene Mora, and Fernando Aldana.
• HUNGARY
  • Breeding. Z. Bedõ, L. Szunics, L. Láng, O. Veisz, Lu. Szunics, I. Karsai, Gy. Vida, and K. Mészáros.
  • Cell biology studies. B. Barnabás, G. Kovács, I. Takács, Z. Pónya, É. Szakács, and I. T'már.
  • Genetic studies. J. Sutka, G. Galiba, M. Molnár-Láng, B. Köszegi, G. Kocsy, G. Linc, and A. Vágújfalvi.
  • Inheritance of quality traits in durum wheats (Triticum durum Desf.). J. Matuz and B. Beke.
  • Evaluation of some aspects of variety maintenance in wheat. Z. Kertesz, J. Matuz, J. Pauk, and Cs. Kertesz.
  • Genotype preservation. L. Cseuz.
  • Response of wheat genotypes to virus diseases under field conditions. M. Papp and A. Mesterhazy.
  • Effects of heavy metals on somatic tissue culture of wheat. L. Purnhauser.
• INDIA
  • 1994-1995 season.
  • Release of new durum variety. V.S. Rao and S.C. Misra.
  • Ditelosomic and trisomic stocks in durum wheat. V.S. Rao, M.D. Bhagwat, P. Varghese, and S.S. Gandhi.
  • Development of long-coleoptile, semidwarf durums. V.S. Rao and S.S. Gandhi.
  • Construction of a durum wheat genomic library. P.K. Ranjekar, V.S. Gupta, V.S. Prakasa Rao, S.A. Tamhankar, S.V. Naik, and S. Pujar.
  • Characterization of a putative repeat clone.
  • Identification of a HaeIII repeat family.
  • Identification of PCR markers for leaf rust resistance gene Lr28.
  • Characterization and use of quality traits in wheat aided by molecular markers.
  • Studies confirming of transfer of rust-resistance genes into Indian wheats. P. Viswanathan, R. Asir, S. Dhamodaran, and V.R.K. Reddy.
  • The current status and some achievements
  • Wheat improvement program, achievements, and wheat breeding strategies in northwestern Himalayas. Satish C. Sharma, G.S. Sethi, K.S. Thakur, D.L. Sharma, Ashwani Kumar, Shyam Verma, and S.C. Negi.
  • Breeding.
  • Alien introduction of desirable genes.
  • Pathology.
  • Agronomy.
  • Thrust areas and futuristic programs in wheat breeding.
  • New sources of resistance to stem, leaf, and stripe rusts from crosses of Triticum aestivum L. and T. timopheevii Zhuk. G. Guha, J.G. Bhowal, and S.K. Dasgupta.
  • Biochemical characterization of the PTD lines.
  • Evaluation and cataloguing of wild germplasm of wheat. H.S. Dhaliwal, Harjit Singh, Khem Singh Gill, Tajinder Singh, P.P.S. Pannu, and P.S.Bagga.
  • Transfer of pest resistance from wild Triticum and Aegilops species into cultivated wheat species. Harjit Singh, H.S. Dhaliwal, Khem Singh Gill, Jaswinder Kaur, and Tajinder Singh.
  • Prebreeding of T. aestivum cultivars WL 711 and HD 2329. H.S. Dhaliwal, Harjit Singh, and Tajinder Singh.
  • Evaluation and utilization of wheat species for leaf canopy temperature differential to use in improving heat tolerance in wheat. K.A. Nayeem and C.B. Latpate.
  • The genetics of proline content in wheat. M.V. Veer and K.A. Nayeem.
  • Development of early mutants useful for a mild winter season under high temperature conditions from a land race `SHARBATI' T. aestivum. K.A. Nayeem and Syed Muzaffar.
  • A pleiotropic gene for awn and glume color in bread wheat. K.A. Nayeem and S.E. Adkune.
  • Response of wheat to application of a dung slurry (organic booster). S.T. Shirale, H.H. Bhadarge, and K.A. Nayeem.
  • Stability analysis of chlorophyll stability index and yield-contributing traits in wheat species under low and high temperatures. L.N. Jawale and K.A. Nayeem.
• ITALY
  • Toxicity testing of alcohol-soluble proteins from Triticum monococcum in coeliac disease. N.E. Pogna, C. Saponaro, M. De Vincenzi, R. Luchetti, and M.R. Dessi.
  • Transfer of resistance to fungal diseases from rye into durum wheat. M. Pasquini, N.E. Pogna, M. Mazza, S. Pagliaricci, and P. Cacciatori.
• JAPAN
  • Progress in the production of near isogenic lines of durum wheat. N. Watanabe.
• MALAWI
  • 1994-1995 Season. P.H. Mnyenyembe and K.M. Chafika.
• MEXICO
  • Developments in CIMMYT Wheat Program in 1995. George Varughese.
  • A Report on CIMMYT 1995 Wheat Improvement training course. R.L. Villareal, O. Banuelos, and G. Varughese.
  • Evaluation of synthetic hexaploids (Triticum turgidum x T. tauschii) under water-stress conditions. R.L. Villareal, O. Ba-uelos, J. Borja, and A. Mujeeb-Kazi.
  • High-yielding bread wheat advanced lines under the high rainfall conditions of Toluca, Mexico. R.L. Villareal, M. Albarran, S. Rajaram, and M. Van Ginkel.
  • Triticale and wheat: grain yield potential and response to input management levels. K. Sayre, W.H. Pfeiffer, and M. Mergoum.
  • Production and cytogenetics of Triticum turgidum L. hybrids with some perennial Triticeae. A. Cortés, V. Rosas, and A. Mujeeb-Kazi.
  • Characterization of an elite set of new synthetic hexaploid wheats (2n = 6x = 42, AABBDD). J. Sanchez, R. Delgado, V. Rosas, S. Cano, and A. Mujeeb-Kazi.
  • Cytogenetics of some amphiploids involving Triticum turgidum and T. aestivum cultivars with alien Triticeae species. V. Rosas, R. Delgado, A. Cortés, and A. Mujeeb-Kazi.
  • Triticum aestivum x perennial Triticeae BC1 self-fertile derivatives with complete and partial synthetic genomes. R. Delgado, A. Cortés, V. Rosas, and A. Mujeeb-Kazi.
  • Genetic manipulation through variation of the Ph locus for introgressing stress resistance in wheat. A. Mujeeb-Kazi, S. Cano, and R. Delgado.
  • Reaction of Triticum turgidum L. var. durum to artificial inoculation of Karnal bunt. G. Fuentes-Davila, O. Abdalla, and W.H. Pfeiffer.
• • Crop season. M.R. Bhatta, R.N. Devkota, D.R. Pokharel, and B.R. Thapa.
  • Wheat breeding activities.
  • Disease situation and breeding strategy.
• NEW ZEALAND
  • Wheat breeding. W.B. Griffin, D.S.C. Wright, R.J. Cross, and S.C. Shorter.
  • Wheat pathology. M.G. Cromey.
  • Wheat processing quality. T.N. Lindley, M.P. Morgenstern, M.P. Newberry, and R.L. Hay.
  • Wheat physiology. P.D. Jamieson.
• PAKISTAN
  • Wheat production. M.S. Cheema and M. Hussain.
  • Breeding of wheat genotypes in Pakistan during 1994-95.
• ROMANIA
  • Association of Fusarium scab resistance with the 1D gliadin locus. N.N. Saulescu, Mariana Ittu, Gh. Ittu, and P. Mustatea.
  • Superiority of Triticale over other small grains in the hilly regions of Romania. Gh. Ittu, N.N. Saulescu, and Mariana Ittu.
  • TURDA 95, a new winter wheat cultivar. V. Botezan, V. Moldovan, and Maria Moldovan.
• RUSSIA
  • The problem of female fertility and some possibilities to improve Triticum aestivum L. x T. timopheevii Zhuk. hybrids at the first backcross. V.F. Kozlovskaya and M.M. Starostenkova.
  • Reaction of wheat to light and length of the vegetation period. Alexander Federov.
  • Analysis of the number of R genes in the genotypes of common spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in the former USSR. V.A. Pukhalskiy, and I.V. Iordanskaya.
  • Performance of new spring durum lines. N.S. Vassiltchouk, V.I. Kassatov, and V.M. Popova.
  • The leaf rust resistance of wheat somaclones. S.V. Tuchin, D.A. Yusupov, and A. Yu. Kozlova.
  • Use of molecular-ecological principles for plant-cell selection for drought resistance. S.V. Tuchin.
  • Effect of unfavorable environmental factors on productivity of cultivars of winter wheat. S.V. Lyashceva.
  • Complex-step hybridization in spring bread wheat breeding for drought resistance and high grain quality. A.I. Kusmenko, L.G. Ilyina, A.N. Galkin, K.F. Guryanova, V.A. Danilova, and T.K. Sotova.
  • Response of different wheat species in anther culture. T.I. Dyatchouk and S.W. Stoljarova.
  • Subunit composition of storage proteins and breadmaking quality of wheat. Yu.V. Italianskaya.
  • The plastid apparatus of different organs spring wheat. Luda O. Mozayskaya.
  • Growth succession on the main shoot of bread wheat. Nataly A. Zakcharchenko and Vadim A. Kumakov.
  • Some features of tillering in different wheat species. Olga A. Yevdokimova.
  • The effect of the prolamine locus on yield and grain protein content of red spring bread wheat. V.A. Krupnov, S.N. Sibikeev, S.A. Voronina, and V.M. Semenov.
  • Genetic control of flour color in bread wheat and wheat/Agropyron lines.
  • The expression of Lr-gene combinations effective against race pp19 of Puccinia recondita and their relation to temperature.
  • The study of Lr19 gene frequency in doubled haploid populations of bread wheat. Yu. E. Sibikeeva.
  • The incorportation of a solid stem in durum wheat breeding in the Volga Region. V.A. Elesin and A.A. V'Yushkov.
  • Drought resistance and grain yield of spring bread wheat - is there a contradiction?. A.P. Igoshin.
  • Genetic profiles of new winter wheat cultivars from Russia. S.P. Martynov and T.V. Dobrotvorskaya.
• SERBIA
  • The quantitative traits of wheat cultivars grown in different locations. Miroslav Kuburovic1, Desimir Knezevic, and Milanko Pavlovic.
• SOUTH AFRICA
  • Winter wheat breeding. H.A. van Niekerk, H. Knobel, N. Warburton, A. Malan, D.J. Exley, O. Muller, B. Wentzel, L Kruger, and R. Pretorius.
  • Spring wheat breeding. H.A. van Niekerk, F. Koekemoer, A. de Villiers, T.G. Paxton, S. Jordaan, R Britz, F. Groenenwald, and S. Pelser.
  • International nurseries and germplasm bank. I.B.J. Smit, T. Bredenkamp, and A. Otto.
  • Crop science. J. Purchase, S. Ybema, A. Barnard, F. Bruin, H. Potgieter, T. Walsh, H. Hatting, A. Botha, C. Nel, M. Maritz, B. van Rensburg, and M. van der Merwe.
  • Plant pathology. B.D. van Niekerk.
  • Entomology. G.J. Prinsloo, V.L. Tolmay, J.L. Hatting, and R. Mare.
  • Weed control research. H.A. Smit, B.L. de Villiers, C.F. Pool, and R.C. Lindeque.
  • Soil cultivation. J.T. Steyn and J.P.C. Tolmay.
  • Development of eyespot-resistant wheat cultivars. D.B. Scott, K. Wilkin, C. de Villiers, and H.J.L. Potgieter.
  • Identification and characterization of RAPD molecular markers linked to Russian wheat aphid resistance in wheat. Alexander A. Myburg, Anna-Maria Botha, Brenda Wingfield.
  • Effect of Russian wheat aphid on the expression of chitinase. M.A.C. Nagel, A-M. Botha, and F.C. Botha
  • Mechanism of Russian wheat aphid resistance. A.J. van der Westhuizen, X-M. Qian, and A-M. Botha.
  • Yield loss study. Z.A. Pretorius, F.J. Kloppers, and C.M. Bender.
  • Improvement of leaf rust resistance.
  • Characterization of resistance to wheat leaf rust.
  • Breeding programs. G.F. Marais, R. Prins, A. Antonov, F.L. Middleton, H.S. Roux, and A.S. Marais.
  • Genetic studies.
  • Doubled haploids (DHs). R. de V. Pienaar, Marizanne Horn, and A.J.G. Lesch.
• TANZANIA
  • Patchy stunting of wheat at the Hanang Wheat Complex. Catherine Kuwite.
  • Comparative performance of wheat and barley elite lines in Tanzania. Mary Mgonja and Ibrahmi Mamuya.
  • Screening and evaluation of wheat germplasm in northern Tanzania. Elizabeth J. Maeda.
  • Agronomic constraints to sustainable wheat production at the Hanang Wheat Complex. Paul L. Antapa, P.M. Mchomvu, and B.D. Majanga.
• TURKEY
  • Wheat research activities in the Thrace region of Turkey. Metin Babaoglu and Irfan Öztürk.
  • Current activities. H.-J.Braun, A.I. Morgounov, H. Ketata, S.P.S.Beniwal, L. Cetin, H. Ekiz, V.Eser, M. Kambertay, M. Keser,N. Zencirci.
  • FAWWON (Facultative and Winter Wheat Observation Nursery) and germplasm distribution.
  • Cultivars released in Turkey during 1995.
  • Best advanced lines in 1995.
  • Yellow rust.
  • Collaboration with Newly Independent States of the former USSR.
• UKRAINE
  • Genetic basis of bunt resistance in Ukrainian, Russian, and U.S. winter and spring wheats. S.V. Rabinovich, E.J. Afonskaya, I.N. Chernyaeva, and E.M. Dolgova.
  • Genetic basis of loose smut resistance in Ukrainian, Russian, and U.S. winter and spring wheats. S.V. Rabinovich, I.N. Chernyaeva, E.J. Afonskaya, and E.M. Dolgova.
  • Spring durum wheat resistance to common bunt and fruit fly injury in the northeastern forest-steppe region of the Ukraine. E.M. Dolgova, N.K Ilchenko, and T.U. Markova.
  • High-molecular-weight glutenin subunit composition of cultivars and breeding lines of hard red winter wheat from different geographic regions. I.A. Panchenko, S.V. Rabinovich, R.G. Parhomenko, and Z.V. Shevchenko.
  • Chromosome damage in wheat seeds after 3ñ10 years of natural aging. O.A. Zadorozhna.
  • Some means of improving phytosanitation and increasing efficiency in winter wheat plantings. Yu.G. Krasilovets, U.U. Sotnikov, and A.Ye. Litvinov.
• UNITED KINGDOM
  • Chromosome 5BS-7BS and its control of adult-plant resistance to yellow rust. C.N. Law and A.J. Worland.
  • Genes for inhibition of flowering and day-length sensitivity on the group 6 chromosomes. M.N. Islam-Faridi, A.J. Worland, and C.N. Law.
  • The control of aspects of bread-making quality using the chromosome substitution lines of Bezostaya 1 into Cappelle-Desprez. A.F. Krattiger, P.I. Payne, and C.N. Law.
  • Location of a gene for resistance to Septoria nodorum. A.J. Worland, S. Lewis, and P. Nicholson.
  • The enhancement of fluorescent in situ hybridization using pre-annealing of DNA probes. S.M. Reader and K. Anamthawat-Jónsson.
  • Molecular tagging of Pm12, a powdery mildew resistance gene transferred from Aegilops speltoides to wheat. J. Jia, K.M. Devos, S. Chao, T.E. Miller, S.M. Reader, and M.D. Gale.
  • Structural evolution of wheat chromosomes 4A, 5A, and 7B and its impact on recombination. K.M. Devos, J. Dubcovsky, J. Dvorak, C.N. Chinoy, and M.D. Gale.
  • Mapping microsatellites in hexaploid wheat. G.J. Bryan, P. Stephenson, A.J. Collins, C.S. Busso, and M.D. Gale.
  • The physical organization of cereal nuclei during meiosis. T. Schwarzacher, S. Wu, and C.B. Gillies.
  • The large-scale genomic organization of repetitive DNA families at the telomere of rye chromosomes. A.A. Vershinin, T. Schwarzacher, E. Alkhimova, and J.S. Heslop-Harrison.
  • Wheat/Aegilops umbellulata recombinant chromosomes. A. Castilho, T.E. Miller, and J.S. Heslop-Harrison.
  • UK program. Stephen Brown and Wybe van de Schaar.
  • French program. Richard Summers and Vernonique Tremellat.
  • German program. Hilmar Coster and Uta Leisenberg.
• UNITED STATES
• ARKANSAS
  • Production. R.K. Bacon, E.A. Milus, B.R. Wells, and J.T. Kelly.
  • Management.
  • Diseases.
  • Breeding and Genetics.
• COLORADO
  • Production.
• GEORGIA
  • 1994-1995 Season. J.W. Johnson, B.M. Cunfer, J.J. Roberts, and G.D. Buntin.
  • Research.
• IDAHO
  • Production. R. Zemetra, E. Souza, S. Guy, S. Quisenberry, P. Berger, M. Lauver, J. Windes, M. Moore, J. Hansen, P. Shiel, and P. McCarthy.
  • Cultivar development.
  • Russian wheat aphid resistance.
  • Transformation.
• INDIANA
  • Production.. H. Ohm, J. Anderson, W. Berzonsky, I. Dweikat, D. McFatridge, F. Patterson, and H. Sharma, G. Buechley, S. Goodwin, D. Huber, K. Perry, and G. Shaner, S. Cambron, F. Maas, R. Ratcliffe, R. Shukle, and C. Williams, and J.J. Stuart.
  • Diseases.
  • Disease-resistance breeding.
  • Leaf rust.
  • Barley yellow dwarf viruses (BYDV).
  • Glume blotch.
  • Hessian fly resistance gene H9.
  • Hessian fly research.
  • Personnel.
• KANSAS
  • `Karl' remains number one. T.J. Byram.
  • The expression of a rice chitinase gene in transformed wheat plants. Xu Gu, S. Muthukrishnan, and G.H. Liang.
  • News. M.B. Kirkham.
  • Loss of herbicidal activity in biocontrol bacteria. M.M. Pyle and J.E. Leach, and P. Harris and P.W. Stahlman.
  • KS95WGRC33 Septoria leaf blotch-resistant germplasm released. T.S. Cox, W.W. Bockus, B.S. Gill, R.G. Sears, W.F. Heer, J.H. Long, and T.L. Harvey.
  • Wheat breeding. R.G. Sears, T.J. Martin, and T.S. Cox.
  • Disease problems. R.G. Sears, T.J. Martin, and T.S. Cox.
  • Ownership of germplasm?. R.G. Sears, T.S. Cox, B.S. Gill, and T.J. Martin.
  • Summary report on cooperative evaluation of the wild Triticum and Aegilops species. W.J. Raupp, D.L. Wilson, and B.S. Gill.
  • Gluten: properties and nonfood potential. O.K. Chung, G.L. Lookhart, J.L. Steele, L.M. Seitz, C.S. Chang, I.Y. Zayas, S.R. Bean, Y.S. Kim, J.B. Ohm, D.B. Bechtel, D.W. Hagstrum, D.B. Sauer, P.W. Flinn, J.E. Baker, K.J. Kramer, A.K. Dowdy, F.H. Arthur, C.R. Martin, R.W. Howard, C.E. Lang, H.S. Park, J.H. Brower, M.S. Caley, B.W. Seabourn, J.D. Hubbard, W.H. McGaughey, T.D. Morgan, J.E. Throne, and D.E. Walker.
  • Capillary electrophoresis: a state-of-the-art technique for wheat protein characterization.
  • Capillary electrophoresis (CE): reproducibility and resolution of cereal proteins in uncoated capillaries.
  • A fast method for wheat cultivar differentiation using capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE).
  • Separation and characterization of wheat protein fractions by high-performance capillary electrophoresis (HPCE).
  • Differentiation of 1AL-1RS from 1BL-1RS wheat-rye translocation lines by capillary electrophoresis.
  • Development of a supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) method for wheat starch lipids and of a high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method for analysis.
  • Chromatographic separation of wheat flour glycolipids.
  • End-use quality evaluation of wheat: past, present, and future.
  • Status of the USGMRL single-kernel wheat characterization system (SKWCS).
  • Varietal and environmental effects on wheat and flour quality parameters.
  • Relationship between flour yields and wheat physical characteristics.
  • Comparison of mixograms at optimum and constant absorption.
  • High-protein air-classified flour and its effects on frozen dough quality.
  • Effects of wheat fiber on breadmaking performance.
  • Neural network classification and machine vision for bread crumb grain evaluation.
  • Volatiles in some selected commercial breads determined by dynamic headspace and GC-MS/IR methods.
  • Classification of grain odors by artificial neural network analysis of volatile compounds.
  • Grain odor project.
  • TCK project.
  • Storage molds and mycotoxins.
  • Finding wet kernels in bulk wheat sample. b
  • Energy requirements for size reduction of wheat using a roller mill.
  • Decision support system for stored-grain insect management.
  • Stored-product insect activity in and around commercial grain elevators.
  • Behavior and physiological effects of heat on stored-product insects.
  • Genetic transformation with an insect gene enhances host-plant resistance to insect pests.
  • Resistant parasitoid successfully tested in insecticide-treated wheat.
  • News at the U.S. Grain Marketing Research Laboratory (USGMRL) and Hard Winter Wheat Quality Laboratory (HWWQL) in the Grain Quality and Structure Research Unit.
  • New Director at the Grain Marketing and Production Research Center.
• KENTUCKY
  • Production. D.A. Van Sanford, C.T. MacKown, and C.S. Swanson.
  • Chlorate tolerance.
  • Germplasm and variety release.
• LOUISIANA
  • Seed transmission of Xanthomonas campestris. S.A. Harrison, K. Whitehead, and C. Seale, K.M. Tubajika, J.S. Russin, and C.A. Clark and H.J. Mascagni.
  • Spread of Xanthomonas campestris pv. translucens in wheat studied with a rifampicin-resistant strain.
  • Early-planted wheat diseases and management.
  • Soil fertility practices to maximize wheat yield potential.
  • Wheat breeding.
• MINNESOTA
  • The rusts of wheat in the United States in 1995. D.L. Long, K.J. Leonard, D.V. McVey, M.E. Hughes, D.H. Casper, and J.J. Roberts.
• MISSOURI
  • 1995 Missouri winter wheat crop. J.P. Gustafson, K.D. Kephart, A.L. McKendry, D.N. Tague, M.K. Kroening, L. Wang, B. Rauh, T. Vogt, K. Houchins, K. Ross, D.J. Somers, P. Belbeli, X. Zhang, I. Lee, E. Butler, Z. Zhou, S. Madsen, A Mahmoud, and M. Christophers.
  • 1995 Missouri winter wheat performance tests.
  • Genetics and cytogenetics.
  • Wheat-rye translocation research.
  • Septoria leaf blotch resistance.
• NEBRASKA
  • 1994-1995 Season. P.S. Baenziger, C.J. Peterson, R.A. Graybosch, D.R. Shelton, L.A.Nelson, D.D. Baltensperger, D.J. Lyons, G.L. Hein, and J.E. Watkins.
  • Doubled haploid and wheat tissue culture studies. K. Haliloglu, P.S. Baenziger, A. Mitra, and Y. Yen.
  • Chromosome substitution lines. M. Shah, Y. Yen, P.S. Baenziger, and K. Eskridge.
  • Effect of 1B-1R and 1A-1R on agronomic performance and end-use quality. B. Moreno-Sevilla, P.S. Baenziger, D. Shelton, R.A. Graybosch, C.J. Peterson, and E. Espitia-Rangel.
  • Winter triticale breeding. P.S. Baenziger.
  • Role of RNA-degrading enzymes in regulating gene expression. Y. Yen and P.S. Baenziger.
  • Variability in wheat streak mosaic virus populations. J. Petrisko, R.C. French, G. Hein, and P.S. Baenziger.
  • Relationships among WSMV, AgMV, and HoMV Rymoviruses. R.C. French.
  • Occurrence and expression of granule-bound-starch-synthase mutants in hard red winter wheat. Bob Graybosch, Vern Hansen, and Jim Peterson.
  • Genetic stocks carrying null alleles at the Glu-D1 locus. Bob Graybosch, Jim Peterson, and Paul Mattern.
  • Tannin content and wheat grain color. Bob Graybosch, Vern Hansen, and Jim Peterson.
  • Yield stability of hybrid vs pureline hard winter wheats. C.J. Peterson, J.M. Moffatt and J.R. Erickson.
  • Nebraska Wheat Quality Lab. D.R. Shelton and W.J. Park.
  • Asian rolled noodle quality evaluation. D.R. Shelton and W.J. Park.
• NEW YORK
  • 1995 winter wheat production. M.E. Sorrells.
  • Soft white winter wheat.
  • Soft red winter wheat.
  • Hard red spring wheat.
  • RFLP mapping.
  • Wheat spindle streak mosaic virus resistance.
  • Milling and baking.
• NORTH DAKOTA
  • Hard red winter wheat breeding project. J.A. Anderson and B. Moreno-Sevilla.
  • Tan spot mapping.
  • Mapping grain protein content from Triticum dicoccoides.
  • Mapping Fusarium head blight resistance genes.
  • Durum wheat breeding and production in North Dakota. E.M. Elias, R.W. Stack, and J.M. Mitchell-Fetch.
  • Mapping grain protein content from Triticum dicoccoides. P.W. Chee, E.M. Elias, and J.A. Anderson.
  • Properties of the tan spot necrosis toxin. L.J. Francl, S.W. Meinhardt, J. Rasmussen, S. Panigrahi, J.G. Jordahl, H.-F. Zhang, T. Freeman, C. Kwon, and E. DeWolf.
  • An electrolyte leakage assay for tan spot necrosis.
  • Epidemiology.
  • Conidiogenesis of Pyrenophora tritici-repentis.
• OHIO
  • Growing conditions and production in Ohio, 1994-95. Kim G. Campbell, Robert W. Gooding, David M. Jordan, Larry D. Herald, Richard Minyo, Dimuth Siritunga, and Emily Stowe, Patrick Lipps and A.L Johnston, and P. Finney, C. Gaines, D. Gualberto, C. Bergman, J. Donelson, G. Bains, L. Andrews, B. Renner, A. Bugaj, J. Kinney, S. Croskey, T. Andrews, L. Fleege, and M. Raeker.
  • USDA ARS Soft Wheat Quality Lab.
  • Ohio Soft Red Winter Wheat Performance Test.
  • Cultivar development.
  • Research.
• OKLAHOMA
  • Wheat leaf rust. R.M. Hunger and J.L. Sherwood.
  • Wheat soilborne mosaic virus.
  • Wheat streak mosaic virus.
  • Host-plant resistance/germplasm enhancement. C.A. Baker, J.D. Burd, N.C. Elliott, M.H. Greenstone, S.D. Kindler, J.H. Lee, D.W. Mornhinweg, D.R. Porter, K.A. Shufran, and J.A. Webster.
  • Biological control.
  • Integrated pest management.
  • Population genetics.
• OREGON
  • Production. J.P. Bassinette, R.S.Karow, D.K. Kelly, R.W. Knight, W.E. Kronstad, M.J. A. Larson, M.D. Moore, S.E. Rowe, and M.C. Verhoeven.
  • Wheat breeding and genetics.
• SOUTH DAKOTA
  • Spring wheat breeding. J.C. Rudd, B.G. Farber, C.H. Chen, S.S.A. Rizvi, Y. Jin, R. Yu, F. Aldana, K.R. Ruden, and S. Zhu.
  • Winter wheat breeding. S.D. Haley, R.A. Schut, F. Hakizimana, and Z. Zhang.
  • Wheat virology. M.A.C. Langham, K. Compton, and X. Wu.
  • Wheat entomology.
  • Soil fertility and production research. H. Woodard, A. Bly, and D. Winther.
  • Weed management. S. Clay, J.F. Gaffney, and L.J. Wrage.
  • Wheat physiology. D. Kenefick and J. Koepke.
  • Wheat molecular biology. F. Sutton and K. Isaac.
• TEXAS
  • Amarillo. M.D. Lazar, G.J. Michels, Jr., C.D. Salisbury, J.D. Booker, J. Hu, G.L. Peterson, G.M. Piccinni, J.E. Simmons, and Q. Xue.
  • Beaumont. J. Sij.
  • College Station.
  • Dallas. D. Marshall, R.L. Sutton, and W.C. Wang.
  • Overton. J. Crowder, L.R. Nelson, S. Ward, and C. Du.
• UTAH
  • Spring wheat. R.S. Albrechtsen.
  • Winter wheat. D.J. Hole.
• VIRGINIA
  • Virginia wheat production in 1995. Carl A. Griffey and Dan E. Brann, Erik L. Stromberg, Janet M. Johnson and Carolyn H. Harris.
  • Control of barley yellow dwarf in Virginia wheat production. E.L. Stromberg.
  • Milling and baking quality of flours from 1B·1R soft red winter wheat. J.M. Johnson, C.A. Griffey, and C.H. Harris.
• WASHINGTON
  • Utility of semidwarf genes. R.E. Allan, R.F. Line, M.K. Walker-Simmons, C.F. Morris, J.A. Pritchett, L.M. Little, L.D. Holappa, H.C. Jeffers, A.D. Bettge, D.A. Engle, M.L. Baldridge, B.S. Patterson, R.L. Ader, D.A. Wood, and D.J. Somers.
  • Conversion of winter wheats to spring growth habits.
  • Heritibility of grain dormancy.
  • New white winter club cultivar.
  • Control of rusts and smuts in the western United States, 1995. Roland F. Line and Xianming Chen.
  • Winterhardiness in wheat. M.K. Walker-Simmons, E. Storlie, L.D. Holappa, S. Verhey, and E. Cudaback.
  • USDA-ARS Western Wheat Quality Laboratory. Craig F. Morris, H.C. Jeffers, A.D. Bettge, D. Engle, M.L. Baldridge, B.S. Patterson, and R. Ader, G. King and B. Davis, M. Giroux, Byung Hee Hong, and Brenda Shackley.
• ZAMBIA
  • Influence of seeding date on the growth and grain yield of wheat. Mary V. Mugala-Mukwavi, S.P. Mooleki, and J. Siwale.
• ZIMBABWE
  • The Department of Research & Specialist Services (DR&SS) wheat breeding program. N.A. Mashiringwani.
  • Effects of tillage system and soybean mulch on weed emergence and wheat yield. A.B. Mashingaidze, O.A. Chivinga, and D. Mtetwa.
  • Assessment of tolerance to reduced irrigation of six wheat genotypes in the south-east lowveld of Zimbabwe. E.Z. Nyakatawa and F.T. Mugabe.
  • Selection for high grain yield in bread wheat using attributes that are correlated with grain yield. E.K. Havazvidi.
  • Seed Co-op 1995 Wheat Advanced Variety Trials.
  • ART Farm. David Lowe and P.M. Grant.

• Taxonomy NSGC Accessions.
• National Small Grains Collection disease.
• National Small Grains Collection insect evaluations on GRIN-wheat.
• National Small Grains Collection agronomic, taxonomic, and quality evaluations on grain-wheat.
• National Small Grains Collection activities.
• PI Assignments in Triticum in 1995.
• Cultivar name clearance.
• Elite germplasm requested. Breeders.
• Guidelines for exporting seed.
• Guidelines for importing seed.