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

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Dedication - Bent Skovmand [1-2]

I. SPECIAL REPORTS [3]

• Minutes - National Wheat Improvement Committee Meeting [3]
• Members - National Wheat Improvement Committee - January 2007 [7]
• Wheat Workers Code of Ethics [8]

II. ANNOUNCEMENTS [9]

• IWGSC (International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium) [9]

III. CONTRIBUTIONS [11]

ARGENTINA

• Córdoba National University – S.P. Gil, C.S. Perrone, M.M. Cerana, R.H. Maich, M.N. Casanova, V. Davidenco [12]

AUSTRALIA

• The University of Adelaide – D. Mares, K. Mrva, R. Asenstorfer, I. Soriano, J. Rathjen, M. Quinn. [13]

BRAZIL

• Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Trigo, EMBRAPA, Passo Fundo – P.L. Scheeren, E. Caierão, M. Sóe Silva, L.J.A. Del Duca, A. Nascimento Junior, A. Linhares, L. Eichelberger, M.Z. Miranda, E.M. Guarienti, L.M. Costamilan, M.I.P.M. Lima, M.S. Chaves, S.P. Brammer, A.L.V. Bonato, E.J. Iorczeski, J.R. Salvadori, A.C.S. Albuquerque, E.M. Guarienti. [15]

CROATIA

• BC Institute for Breeding and Production of Field Crops, Zagreb – S. Tomasovic, R. Mlinar, B. Palaveraic, I. Ikic, K. Puakaric, M. Potoanac, S. Halagic. [19]

GERMANY

• Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben - A. Börner, N. Iqbal, E.K. Khlestkina, S. Landjeva, U. Lohwasser, S. Navakode, K. Neumann, E.G. Pestsova, M.S. Röder, M.R. Simon, A. Weidner, K.Z. Nezhad, X.Q. Huang [20]

HUNGARY

• Department of Wheat Breeding, Agricultural Research Institute, Martonvásár – Z. Bedö, L. Láng, O. Veisz, G. Vida, I. Karsai, M. Rakszegi, K. Mészáros, D. Pribék. [25]
• Department of Cell Biology, Agricultural Research Institute, Martonvásár – B. Barnabás, M. Molnár-Láng, G. Linc, É. Szakács, K. Jäger, I. Molnár, F. Bakos, H. Ambrus, A. Schneider, A. Sepsi, A. Fábián. [28]
• Departments of Genetics and Physiological Studies, Agricultural Research Institute, Martonvásár – G. Galiba, G. Kocsy, A. Vágújfalvi, A. Bálint, F. Szira, A.Soltész, T. Kellös. [30]
• Genebank, Agricultural Research Institute, Martonvásár – G. Kovács. [30]

INDIA

• Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumba –B.K. Das, A. Saini, N. Jawali, S.G. Bhagwat, R. Rai, N. Eswaran, S. Sud, K.A. Nayeem, S.P. Shouche, J.K. Sainis. [31]
• Bharathiar University, Coimbatore – S. Premalatha, V.R.K. Reddy, K. Gajalakshimi, K. Thamayanthi, R. Kannan, B. John. [34]
• Directorate of Wheat Research, Karnal – B.S. Tyagi, G. Singh, J. Shoran. [38]
• Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Wellington – M. Sivasamy, S.M.S. Tomar, Vinod, R.N. Brahma, R. Tiwari, M. Prashar. [40]

JAPAN

• Ibaraki University - N. Watanabe [43]

MEXICO

• INIFAP, Campo Experimental Centro-Altos de Jalisco, Campo Experimental Valle del Yaqui, and Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora - G. Fuentes-Dávila, M.A. Camacho-Casas, I. Fuentes-Bueno, H.E. Villaseñor-Mir, P. Figueroa-López, J.M. Cortés-Jiménez. [44]

PAKISTAN

• Nuclear Institute of Agriculture, Tando Jam – K.D. Jamali, S. Arain, M.A. Arain. [58]

RUSSIAN FEDERATION

• Agricultural Research Institute of the Central Region of Non-Chenozem Zone, Moscow – V.G. Kyzlasov. [60]
• Agricultural Research Institute for South-East Regions, Saratov – O.V. Khomyakova, T.I. Dyatchouk, S.V. Tuchin. [61]
• Institute of Complex Analysis of Regional Problems, Khabarovsk – I. Shindin. [62]
• Moscow State University, Moscow – S.N. Lekomtseva, V.T. Volkova, L.G. Zaitseva, M.N. Chaika, E.S. Skolotneva,
  Yu.V. Maleeva, I.D. Insarova. [65]
• Saratov State Agrarian University named after N.I. Vavilov, Saratov – O.V. Tkachenko, Yu.V. Lobachev. [69]
• Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry –L.V. Dudareva, S.V. Lankevich, V.M. Sumtsova, E.G. Rudikovcka, R.K. Salyaev, N.Yu. Pivovarova, O.I. Grabelnych, T.P. Pobezhimova, N.A. Koroleva, V.K. Voinikov,
  N.S. Pavlovskaya, O.V. Savinova. [70]
• Vavilov Institute of General Genetics and the Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow – T.I. Odintsova, V.A. Pukhalskiy, T.V. Korostyleva, G.V. Kozlovskaya, A.K. Musolyamov, Ts.A. Egorov, E.N. Bilinskaya, S.P. Martinov, A. Dragovich, S. Dencic, L.A. Obolenkova. [78]

SOUTH AFRICA

• University of Stellenbosch - G.F. Marais, H.S. Roux, A.S. Marais, W.C. Botes, J.E. Snyman. [85]

SPAIN

• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, University of Lleida, Consejería de Infraestructuras y Desarrollo Technológico SIDT, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas – A. Delibes, I. López-Braña, J.A. Martín-Sánchez, E. Sin, J. Del Moral de la Vega, F. Pérez Rojas, M.D. Romero, M.F. Andrés, S. Moreno-Vázquez, E. Simonett, G. Briceño-Félix, C. Martínez, A. Michelena, L. Torresi, A. López Fernández, M. Bagá Santamaría, J.A. Betbesé, R. Mestres. [87]

UKRAINE

• Institute for Plant Production N.A. V Ya. Yurjev, Kharkov – E.V. Tverdokhleb, S.V. Rabinovych, N.V. Kuzmenko, Yu.G. Krasilovets, M.I. Nepochatov, V.A. Tsyganko. [92]
• V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University – V.V. Zhmurko, O.A. Avksentyeva, A.M. Samoilov. [95]

UNITED KINGDOM

• John Innes Centre, Norwich, Norfolk – L.A. Boyd, C. Lewis, J. Melichar, L. Jagger, N. Powell, R. MacCormack, H. Tufan. [98]

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

COLORADO

• Colorado State University, Ft. Collins – S.Haley, J. Stromberger, J. Butler, E. Heaton, H. Miller, B. Beyer, J. Roth. [100]

GEORGIA / FLORIDA

• University of Georgia Experiment Station and the USDA-ARS, Griffin – J.W. Johnson, R.D. Barnett, G.D. Buntin, Z. Chen. [104]

INDIANA

• USDA–ARS and Purdue University, West Lafayette –J.M. Anderson, S.E. Cambron, C. Crane, S.B. Goodwin, S. Scofield, B. Schemerhorn, R.H. Shukle, C.E. Williams, H.W. Ohm, M. Deb, L. Kong, X. Shen, G. Buechley,
  G. Shaner, J.R. Xu, J. Stuart. [106]

KANSAS

• Kansas Agricultural Statistics, Topeka – E.J. Theissen. [111]
• Environmental Physics Group, Kansas State Unviersity, Manhattan – M.B. Kirkham. [114]
• The Wheat Genetic & Genomic Resources Center, Departments of Plant Pathology and Agronomy, Kansas State University, and the USDA–ARS, Manhattan – B.S. Gill, B. Friebe, W.J. Raupp, D.L. Wilson, T.S. Cox, R.G. Sears, G.L. Brown-Guedira, A.K. Fritz, V. Kuraparthy, P. Chhuneja, H.S. Dhaliwal, S. Kaur, R.L. Bowden, S. Sood, L.L. Qi, P. Zhang, S.A. Brooks, L. Huang, M.N. Herbel, J.P. Fellers, D.R. See, J.C. Nelson. [115]
• USDA-ARS Grain Marketing and Production Research Center, Manhattan –M. Tilley, F.E. Dowell, B.W. Seabourn, J.D. Wilson, S.R. Bean, E.B. Maghirang, O.K Chung, S.H. Park, T.C. Pearson, F. Xie, T.J. Schober, H. Akdogan, G.L. Lookhart, M.S. Caley, S.Z. Xiao, F.H. Arthur, M.E. Casada, D.B. Bechtel, D.L. Brabec,
  D.R. Tilley, R.K. Lyne, R.C. Kaufman. [119]

MINNESOTA

• USDA-ARS Cereal Rust Laboratory, St. Paul – D.L. Long, J.A. Kolmer, Y. Jin, M.E. Hughes, L.A. Wanschura. [130]

NORTH DAKOTA

• USDA–ARS Northern Crop Science Laboratory, Fargo – J.D. Faris, S. Kumar, T.L. Friesen, R. Oliver, L. Reddy, S.W. Meinhardt, S. Chao, H. Lu, J.P. Fellers, Z. Zhang, K.J. Simons, C. Chu, S. Xu, J. Li, D.L. Klindworth,
  X. Cai, W. Zhang, J. Dubcovsky, M. Sorrells. [141]

OKLAHOMA

• Oklahoma State University, Stillwater – J.T. Edwards, B.F. Carver. [148]
• USDA–ARS–SPA Wheat, Peanut and Other Field Crops Research Unit, Stillwater – C.A. Baker, J.D. Burd, N.C. Elliott, Y. Huang, D.W. Mornhinweg, D.R. Porter, G.J. Puterka, K.A. Shufran. [150]

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

• Wheat germ plasm evaluations [153]
• PI assignments in Triticum, Secale, and X Triticosecale in 2006 [155]

V. CATALOGUE OF GENE SYMBOLS FOR WHEAT, 2007 SUPPLEMENT [159]

VI. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS VOLUME [181]

VII. ADDRESSES OF CONTRIBUTORS [184]

VIII. E-MAIL ADDRESSES OF SMALL GRAINS WORKERS [187]

IX. ANNUAL WHEAT NEWSLETTER FUND [196]

X. VOLUME 54 MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES [197]