TABLE OF CONTENTS Numbers in brackets indicate page numbers in printed volume.

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Leo Del Duca [1-2]

George H. Liang [3]

Larry Seitz [4-5]

I. SPECIAL REPORTS [6]

• Minutes - National Wheat Improvement Committee Meeting [6]
• Members - National Wheat Improvement Committee - January 2006 [11]
• Wheat Workers Code of Ethics [12]

II. ANNOUNCEMENTS [13]

• IWGSC (International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium) [13]

III. CONTRIBUTIONS [16]

PRIVATE COMPANIES [16]

WESTBRED LLC

• Northern Great Plains - G. Fox, John Davies. [16]
• Southern Great Plains - S. Perry, R. Dare, R. Sims. [16]
• Pacific Northwest - D. Clark, D. Biggerstaff, C. Cook, G. Sharp. [16]

ARGENTINA

• Córdoba National University - J.G. Astolfi, I. Robbiano, M.N. Casanova, G. Manera, R.H. Maich, R. Argenti, V. Davidenco, A. Masgrau, S.P. Gil, M.E. Reyna, C.S. Perrone, M.M. Cerana [17]

AUSTRALIA

• The University of Adelaide - D. Mares, K. Mrva, R. Asenstorfer, I. Soriano, J. Rathjen, M. Quinn. [18]

BRAZIL

• Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Trigo, EMBRAPA, Passo Fundo. L.J.A. Del Duca, E.M. Guarienti, C.N A. Sousa, P.L. Scheeren, A. Nascimento Jr, E. Caierão, M. Sóe Silva, R.S. Fontaneli, H.P. Santos, J.B. Lhamby, O. Carvalho, J.B. Marques, A.G. Linhares, L. Eichelberger, O. Rodrigues, G.R. Cunha, M.Z. Miranda, L.M. Costamilan, M.I.P.M. Lima, M.S.Chaves, W.C. da Luz, A. Prestes. [20]

CROATIA

• BC Institute for Breeding and Production of Field Crops, Zagreb - S. Tomasovic, B. Palaversic, R. Mlinar, I. Ikic, K. Puskaric. [22]

GERMANY

• Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben - A. Börner, O. Dobrovolskaya, E.K. Khlestkina, U. Lohwasser, S. Navakode, M.S. Röder, V. Schubert, A. Weidner, K. Zaynali Nezhad [24]

HUNGARY

• Department of Wheat Breeding, Agricultural Research Institute, Martonvásár - Z. Bedö, L. Láng, O. Veisz, G. Vida, I. Karsai, K. Mészáros, M. Rakszegi. [27]
• Department of Cell Biology, Agricultural Research Institute, Martonvásár - B. Barnabás, M. Molnár-Láng, É. Darkó, É. Szakács, I. Takács. [30]
• Departments of Genetics and Physiological Studies, Agricultural Research Institute, Martonvásár - G. Galiba, G. Kocsy, T. Janda, G. Kovács, E. Páldi, G. Szalai, A. Vágújfalvi, B. Tóth, E. Horváth, M. Pál. [31]
• Genebank, Agricultural Research Institute, Martonvásár - G. Kovács. [32]

INDIA

• Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumba - B.K. Das, A. Saini, S.G. Bhagwat, N. Jawali, R. Rai, S. Sud, E. Nalini, B.P. Dubey, S.P. Shouche. [33]
• Bharathiar University, Coimbatore - K. Gajalakshimi, V.R.K. Reddy, S. Premalatha, K. Thamayanthi, R. Kannan. [35]
• Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut - P.K. Gupta, H.S. Balyan, R. Bandopadhyay, J. Kumar, A. Mohan, N. Kumar, P.L. Kulwal, S. Rustgi, R. Singh, A. Goyal, A. Kumar, N. Girdharwal, V. Kumar, R. Rouf Mir. [43]
• Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar - R. Singh, M.S. Beniwal, S.S. Karwasra. [47]
• Directorate of Wheat Research, Karnal - R. Chatrath, G. Singh, R. Singh, B.S. Tyagi, S.K. Singh, J. Shoran, D. Rai, S. Kumar, S. Singh, R.M. Singh, A.K. Joshi, R. Dhari, D. Dutta, R. Chatrath, KS Babu, N.V.P.R.G. Rao. [48]
• Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi - B.S. Malik. [61]
• Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Wellington - M. Sivasamy, A.J. Prabakaran, S.M.S. Tomar, K.A. Nayeem, R.N. Brahma, M.K. Menon. [63]

IRAN

• Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran - M. Mardi, M.B. Kazemi, S.M. Pirseyedi, H.P. Irandoost, H. Buerstmayr, B. Ghareyazie, M.R. Ghaffari, G. Adam, A. Sadeghi, S.G.H. Salekdeh. [69]

ITALY

• Istituto de Genetica Vegetale, Bari - A.R. Piergiovanni, A. Pasqualone, G. Laghetti, R. Simeone. [70]
• Istituto Sperimentale per la Cerealicoltura, Roma - V. Vallega, C. Rubies-Autonell, C. Ratti. [71]
• University of Bologna - C. Ratti, C. Rubies Autonell, M. Maccaferri, R. Tuberosa, M.C. Sanguineti, V. Vallega, G.E. Budge, C. Henry, D. Lockley, M. Bonnefoy, U. Kastirr. [74]

JAPAN

• Ibaraki University - N. Watanabe [77]
• Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Tsukuba - H. Nakamura. [78]

LEBANON

• American University of Beirut - S-K. Yau, J. Pridham, M. Entz. [79]

MEXICO

• INIFAP Campo Experimenta Valle del Yaqui and CIMMYT - G. Fuentes-Dávila, J. Ireta-Moreno, I. Fuentes-Bueno, K. Ammar, R.P. Singh. [81]

ROMANIA

• S.C.A. Agricultural Research Station, Turda - V. Moldovan, M. Moldovan, R. Kadar. [95]

RUSSIAN FEDERATION

• Agricultural Research Institute of the Central Region of Non-Chenozem Zone, Moscow - V.G. Kyzlasov. [96]
• Agricultural Research Institute for South-East Regions, Saratov - S.N. Sibikeev, S.A. Voronina, V.A. Krupnov, A.E. Druzhin, T.D. Golubeva, T.V. Kalintseva, E.I. Zhanabekova, A.V. Firsov. [97]
• Moscow State University, Moscow - S.N. Lekomtseva, V.T. Volkova, L.G. Zaitseva, V.A. Rusanov, Yu.A. Chikin, M.N. Chaika. [99]
• Institute of Complex Analysis of Regional Problems, Khabarovsk - I. Shindin. [101]
• Russian Research of Agrochemistry after Pryanishnikov, Moscow - N.V. Poukhalskaya, N.I. Lavrushkina, A.A. Sobachkin. [104]
• Saratov State Agrarian University named after N.I. Vavilov, Saratov - N.V. Stupina, Yu.V. Lobachev, S.N. Sibikeev. [106]
• Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry - G.G. Vasilieva, N.V. Mironova, M.S. Naumova, A.K. Glyanko, Sh.K. Khusnidinov, T.G. Kudryavtseva, N.S. Pavlovskaya, O.I. Grabelnych, T.P. Pobezhimova, A.V. Kolesnichenko, N.A. Koroleva,V.K. Voinikov, N.Yu. Pivovarova. [107]
• Vavilov Institute of General Genetics and the Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow - T.I. Odintsova, V.A. Pukhalskiy, A.K. Musolyamov, Ts. A. Egorov. [119]

SOUTH AFRICA

• University of Stellenbosch - G.F. Marais, H.S. Roux, A.S. Marais, W.C. Botes, JE Snyman. [121]

SPAIN

• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, University of Lleida - A. Delibes, I. López-Braña, M. J. Montes, C. González-Belinchón, M.D. Romero, M.F. Andrés, J.A. Martín-Sánchez, G. Briceño-Félix, E. Sin, C. Martínez, A. Michelena, L. Torres. [123]

SWEDEN

• The Nordic Genebank, Alnarp - F. Ottosson, L. Bondo, O. Diaz, B. Skovmand. [126]

UKRAINE

• Institute for Plant Production N.A. V Ya. Yurjev, Kharkov - S.V. Rabinovych, O.Yu. Leonov, V.P. Petrenkova, I.M. Chernyaeva, L.M. Chernobay. [127]
• Kharkov National University - V.V. Zhmurko, O.A. Avksentyeva. [131]

UNITED KINGDOM

• John Innes Centre, Norwich, Norfolk - J. Snape, L. Alibert, R. Koebner, S. Orford, L. Boyd, C. Lewis, M. Sayar, J. Melichar, L. Jagger, H. Tufan, N. Powell, R. MacCormack, P. Stephenson, A. Bottley, N. Hart, S. Griffiths, T. Foote, G. Moore, P. Jack, M. Field, P. Werner, C. Chapman, T. Henriksson, D. Feuerhelm, T. Barsby, G. Jellis, A. Waugh, S. Salmon, J. Brosnan, A. Phillips, M. Holdsworth, P. Kettlewell. [132]

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

COLORADO

• Colorado State University, Ft. Collins - S.Haley, J. Stromberger, B. Clifford, J. Butler, B. Beyer, J. Roth. [138]

GEORGIA / FLORIDA

• University of Georgia Experiment Station and the USDA-ARS, Griffin - J.W. Johnson, R.D. Barnett, G.D. Buntin, Z. Chen. [142]

INDIANA

• USDA-ARS and Purdue University, West Lafayette - J.M. Anderson, S.E. Cambron, C. Crane, S.B. Goodwin, A. Johnson, J.A. Nemacheck, S. Scofield, B. Schemerhorn, R.H. Shukle, C.E. Williams, H.W. Ohm, M. Deb, L. Kong, H.C. Sharma, X. Shen, G. Buechley, D. Huber, G. Shaner, J.R. Xu, J. Stuart . [144]

KANSAS

• Kansas Agricultural Statistics, Topeka - E.J. Theissen. [149]
• Environmental Physics Group, Kansas State Unviersity, Manhattan - S. Liphadzi, M.B. Kirkham. [153]
• The Wheat Genetic & Genomic Resources Center, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan - B.S. Gill, B. Friebe, W.J. Raupp, W. Li, L. Qi, L. Huang, D.L. Wilson. [154]
• USDA-ARS Grain Marketing and Production Research Center, Manhattan - M. Tilley, F.E. Dowell, O.K Chung, S.H. Park, E.B. Maghirang, B.W. Seabourn, T.C. Pearson, F. Xie, H.P. Akdogan, M.E. Casada, J.D. Wilson, S.R. Bean, T.J. Schober, P.R. Armstrong, M.S. Caley, D.L. Brabec, S.Z. Xiao, L.M. Seitz, R.K. Lyne, J.E. Throne, F.H. Arthur, D.B. Bechtel, G.L. Lookhart, M.S. Ram. [158]

MINNESOTA

• USDA-ARS Cereal Rust Laboratory, St. Paul - D.L. Long, J.A. Kolmer, Y. Jin, M.E. Hughes, L.A. Wanschura. [169]

NEBRASKA

• University of Nebraska, USDA-ARS, Lincoln - P.S. Baenziger, D. Baltensperger, L. Nelson, I. Dweikat, A. Mitra, T. Clemente, S. Sato, J. Watkins, J. Schimelfenig, G. Hein, R.A. Graybosch, L. Divis, R. French, D. Stenger. [181]

SOUTH DAKOTA

• South Dakota State University, Brookings - AA.M.H. Ibrahim, S.A. Kalsbeck, R.S. Little, S. Malla, E. Babiker, M. Langham, T. Cheesbrough, H.J. Woodard, A. Bly, B. Pavel, L. Hesler, W. Riedell, S. Osborne. [185]

VIRGINIA

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg - J.J. Paling, C.A. Griffey, W.E. Thomason, E.L. Stromberg, J. Chen, D.M. Tucker, T.H. Pridgen, E.G. Rucker. [188]

WASHINGTON

• USDA-ARS Wheat Genetics, Quality, Physiology and Disease Research Unit and Washington State University, Pullman - X. Chen, D.A. Wood, L. Penman, P. Ling, M. Wang, F. Lin. [192]

IV. CULTIVARS AND GERM PLASM - National Small Grains Germplasm Research Facility, Aberdeen, ID, USA. H.E. Bockelman. [197]

• Wheat germ plasm evaluations [197]
• PI assignments in Triticum, Aegilops, Secale, and intergeneric hybrids in 2005 [199]

V. CATALOGUE OF GENE SYMBOLS FOR WHEAT, 2006 SUPPLEMENT [208]

VI. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS VOLUME [231]

VII. ADDRESSES OF CONTRIBUTORS [234]

VIII. E-MAIL ADDRESSES OF SMALL GRAINS WORKERS [238]

IX. ANNUAL WHEAT NEWSLETTER FUND [247]

X. VOLUME 53 MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES [248]