9th International Symposium on Pre-Harvest Sprouting in Cereals.
The 9th International Symposium on Pre-Harvest Sprouting in Cereals
will be held at the Berg-en-Dal Camp, Kruger National Park, South
Africa, on 2428 June, 2001. The organizer is Dr. Andrew Cairns,
Crop Science, School of Agricultural Sciences and Agribusiness,
University of Natal, P.O. Box X01, Scottsville 3209, South Africa
(E-mail: Cairns@Agron.unp.ac.za). Contact Dr. Cairns to be placed
on the mailing list.
International Symposium on Wheat Improvement for Scab Resistance.
Tentative dates: 2027 April, 2000. Suzhou, China.
In recent years, severe wheat scab epidemics, caused by Fusairum
graminearum, have occurred in some European countries and
the eastern and midwestern United States besides countries such
as China, Japan, Brazil, and Argentina where historically it is
an important disease. Scab has become a threat to wheat production
worldwide. Scab epidemics cause extensive damage to wheat in the
middle and lower reaches of the Yangtse River Valley. However,
it provides us with a suitable place to breed wheat for scab resistance.
A series of wheat varieties with scab resistance, such as Sumai
3, Xiangmai 1, Ning 7840, was developed from this region.
At the suggestion of some experts from various countries, the
International Symposium on Wheat Improvement for Scab Resistance
will be held in Suzhou City, China. The organizing committee of
the International Symposium on Wheat Improvement for Scab Resistance
invites you to attend the symposium to be held in Suzhou, April
2000. The aim of the symposium is to bring together various specialists
to present and discuss recent advances in the area of wheat improvement
for scab resistance.
The symposium will consist of papers and poster sessions on the
following topics:
genetic resources for the development of scab-resistant germ plasm,
progress in breeding wheat for scab resistance,
genetic and physical mapping of scab resistance genes,
improvement in the methods of wheat breeding and pathogen inoculation,
and
molecular genetics in the plants and pathogens.
A second announcement will be sent to those who answer this first
announcement.
Contact address: please address all correspondence to:
Dr. Ma Zhenquiang
Cytogenetics Institute
Nanjing Agriculture University
Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu
Peoples Republic of China
TEL: 86-25-439-6026
FAX: 86-25-439-5308
E-mail: zqm1@lib.njau.edu.cn
cinaunj@public1.ptt.js.cn