TABLE OF CONTENTS

GRAPHIC VERSION

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Dedication – Harry C. Young, Jr. [1]

I. SPECIAL REPORTS [2]

• Minutes – Crop Germplasm Committee [2]
• Minutes – National Wheat Improvement Committee Meeting [5]
• Wheat Workers Code of Ethics [7]
• Members – National Wheat Improvement Committee - December 2008 [8]
• New SynOp International Triticeae Mapping Initiative (ITMI) population seed increase [9]
• International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium update [11]

II. NATIONAL WHEAT GENOMICS CONFERENCE [17-40]

• Speaker and Poster abstracts

III. CONTRIBUTIONS [41]

ARGENTINA

• Córdoba National University – R.H. Maich, F. Ripoll, H. Sosa, M.J. Tello, G.A. Piacenza [41]

BRAZIL

• Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Trigo, EMBRAPA, Passo Fundo – E. Caierão, P.L. Scheeren, M.S. Silva [42]

CHINA

• CIMMYT and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing – Z. He [45]
• Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing – P.D. Chen, D.J. Liu, X.E. Wang, S.L. Wang, B. Zhou [50]

CROATIA

• BC Institute for Breeding and Production of Field Crops, Zagreb – S. Tomasovic, B. Palaveršic, R. Mlinar, I. Ikic, T. Ivanušic [51]

GERMANY

• Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben –A. Börner, E.K. Khlestkina, B. Kobiljski, U. Kumar, S. Landjeva, U. Lohwasser, M. Nagel, S. Navakode, M.A. Rehman Arif, M.S. Röder, A. Weidner, L.Q. Xia, K.Z. Nezhad [53]

HUNGARY

• Department of Wheat Breeding, Agricultural Research Institute, Martonvásár – Z. Bedö, L. Láng, O. Veisz, G. Vida, M. Rakszegi, K. Mészáros, S. Bencze [59]
• Department of Plant Genetic Resources and Organic Breeding – M. Molnár-Láng, G. Kovács, É. Szakács, A. Schneider, I. Molnár, A. Sepsi [61]
• Departments of Genetics and Physiological Studies, Agricultural Research Institute, Martonvásár – A. Vágújfalvi, A. Soltész, I. Vashegyi, G. Kocsy, G. Galiba [62]
• Department of Cell Biology – B. Barnabás, K. Jäger, H. Ambrus, A. Fábián [62]

INDIA

• Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai – B.K. Das, S.G. Bhagwat, S. Bakshi, C. Chang, P. Suprasanna [64]
• Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut –P.K. Gupta, H.S. Balyan, J. Kumar, A. Mohan, A. Kumar, R.R. Mir, S. Kumar, R. Kumar, P. Kumari, A.B.V. Jaiswal, M. Das, S. Banerjee [66]
• Directorate of Wheat Research, Karnal – J. Kumar, B. Mishra, R.P. Meena, M. Singh, M.S. Saharan, P.K. Varma, A.K. Sharma, B.S. Tyagi, J. Shoran, V.K. Dwivedi, G. Singh, S.K. Singh, S. Kundu, R. Chatrath, D. Singh, S.C. Tripathi, K.D. Sayre, J.N. Kaul, A.K. Hoshi, R.M. Singh, R.Dhari [71]

ITALY

• Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricolutra, Rome – V. Vallega, C. Rubies-Autonell, A.M. Pisi, C. Ratti, P. De Vita, A.M. Mastrangelo [100]
• University of Bologna –C. Ratti, C. Rubies-Autonell, M. Maccaferri, S. Corneti, S. Stefanelli, M.C. Sanguineti, A. Demontis, A. Massi, V. Vallega [106]

JAPAN

• National Institute of Crop Science, Tsukuba – N. Nakamura [108]

MEXICO

• International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center – CIMMYT – R.J. Peña, K. Ammar, R.P. Singh, J. Huerta-Espino, S. Bhavani, S. Herrera-Foessel, D. Singh, P.K. Singh, E. Duveiller, M. Mezzalama, J. Murakami, N. Lozano, F. Lopez, J. Segura, A. Djurle, N. Schlang, P. Singh, M. Preciado, M-E. Leymus, Y. Manès [110]
• INIFAP, Campo Experimental Valle de Yaqui, Cd. Obregon – G. Fuentes-Dávila, P. Figueroa-López, K. Ammar, J.M. Cortés-Jiménez, P. Félix-Valencia, V. Valenzuela-Herrera, T. Ruiz-Vega, I. Vargas-Arispuro, R.P. Singh, J.C. Leyva-Corona, J.G. Quintana-Quiroz [128]

PAKISTAN

• National Agricultural Research Center, Islamabad – A. Mujeeb-Kazi, A.G. Kazi, I.A. Khan, M. Zakria, J.I. Mirza, M, Fayyaz, A-R. Rattu, M.A. Akhtar, M. Shahzad, S.I. Farooq, S. Asad, Y. Rauf, S. Iftikhar, S. Aamir, H. Saffdar, S. Hameed, A-Rehman, M.J. Tariq, H.A. Ayaz, M. Faheem, A. Kazmi, S. Iftikhar, M. Noman, A-Rehman, R. Amir, R. Keyani, F. Bashir, H. Nazir, U. Rahim, S.I. Yasmin, N. Ahmed [149]

RUSSIAN FEDERATION

• Agricultural Research Institute of the Central Region of Non-Chenozem Zone, Moscow – V.G. Kyzlasov, I.F. Lapochkina, N.R. Gainullin [173]
• Agricultural Research Institute for South-East Regions, Saratov –S.N. Sibikeev, A.E. Druzhin, T.D. Golubeva, T.V. Kalintseva, I.N. Cherneva, S.A. Voronina, V.A. Krupnov, O.V. Krupnova, G.Yu. Antonov [174]
• Institute of Complex Analysis of Regional Problems, Khabarovsk – I. Shindin, S.V. Phirstov [177]
• Moscow State University, Moscow – S.N. Lekomtseva, V.T. Volkova, L.G. Zaitseva, E.S. Skolotneva [178]
• Russian Research Institute of Agrochemistry after D.N. Pryanishnikov, Moscow – N.V. Poukhalskaya, V.A. Budkov, Dm. Koluntaev [179]
• Saratov State Agrarian University named after N.I. Vavilov, Saratov – O.V. Tkachenko, Yu.V. Lobachev [180]
• Vavilov Institute of General Genetics and the Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow –L.L. Utkina, A.A. Slavokhotova, T.I. Odintsova, T.V. Korostyleva, V.A. Pukhalskiy, A.K. Musolyamov, T.A. Egorov[181]
• Vavilov Saratov State Agrarian University, Saratov – Yu.V. Lobachev, O.V. Tkachenko, L.Yu. Matora, G.L. Burygin, N.V. Evseeva, S.Yu. Shchyogolev [184]

SPAIN

• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, University of Lleida, and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas – A. Delibes, I. López-Braña, E. Simonetti, J.A. Martín-Sánchez, E. Sin, M.F. Andrés [186]

TURKEY

• International Wheat Improvement Project, CIMMYT, and ICARDA – A. Morgounov, B. Akin, M. Keser, Y. Kaya [189]

UKRAINE

• Institute for Plant Production N.A. V Ya. Yurjev, Kharkov – Yu.G. Krasilovets, N.V. Kuzmenko [192]

UNITED KINGDOM

• John Innes Centre, Norwich, Norfolk –T. Chama, R. MacCormack, Z. Pretorius, R. Wanyera, S. Dreisigacker, C. Bender, D. Snyman, D. Liebenberg, L.A. Boyd, R. Prins, G. Agenbag, H.A. Tufan, G.R.D. McGrann, A. Magusin, J-B. Morel, L. Miché [194]

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

GEORGIA / FLORIDA

• University of Georgia Experiment Station and the USDA–ARS, Griffin – J.W. Johnson, J.W. Buck, G.D. Buntin, Z. Chen [196]

KANSAS

• Kansas Agricultural Statistics, Topeka [198]
• Kansas State University, Manhattan
  • Environmental Physics Group – M.B. Kirkham [201]
  • The Wheat Genetic & Genomic Resources Center, Departments of Plant Pathology and Agronomy, and the USDA–ARS – B.S. Gill, L.L. Qi, M. Pumphrey, B. Freibe, P.D. Chen, D.L. Wilson, Z-J Chang, D.L. Seifers, T.J. Martin, A.K. Fritz, V. Kuraparthy, S. Sood, D.R. See, J.J. Wilson, S.K. Sehgal, W. Li, P. Rabinowicz, J. Dolezel, M-C. Luo [203]
• USDA–ARS Grain Marketing and Production Research Center, Manhattan –M. Tilley, F. E. Dowell, B.W. Seabourn, J.D. Wilson, E.B. Maghirang, S.R. Bean, Y.R. Chen, K.H. Peiris, M.O. Pumphrey, R.C. Kaufman [207]

MINNESOTA

• USDA–ARS Cereal Rust Laboratory, St. Paul – D.L. Long, J.A. Kolmer, Y. Jin, M.E. Hughes [215]

NEBRASKA

• University of Nebraska and the USDA–ARS, Lincoln – P.S. Baenziger, K. Vogel, N. Mengistu, T. Clemente, S. Sato, S. Wegulo, J. Counsells, M.D. Ali, A. Bakhsh, I. Dweikat, K. Eskridge, K. Gill, M. Kazi, J. Sidiqi, F. Dowell, Z. Al-Ajlouni, G. Bai, N. Crowley, S. Dere, A. Auvuchananon, R.A. Graybosch, S. Onto, R. Little, L. Xu, V. Schegel, L.E. Hansen, D. Jackson [228]

OKLAHOMA

• Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
  • Department of Plant and Soil Sciences – J.T. Edwards, B.F. Carver, L. Yan [233]
  • Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology – R. Hunger [236]

VIRGINIA

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg – C.A. Griffey, W.E. Thomason, J.E. Seago, M.D. Hall, S. Liu, W.S. Brooks, P.G. Gundrum, R.M. Pitman, M.E. Vaughn, D. Dunaway, T. Lewis [237]

WASHINGTON

• USDA–ARS Western Wheat Quality Laboratory, Pullman – C.F. Morris, B. Beecher, A.D. Bettge, D.A. Engle, G.E. King, M. Baldridge, P.K. Boyer, E.P. Fuerst, B. Paszczynska, G.L. Jacobson, W.J. Kelley, M.J. Lenssen, J. Luna, E. Wegner, S. Vogl, S. Sykes, D. Ramseyer [243]

IV. CULTIVARS AND GERM PLASM – National Small Grains Germplasm Research Facility, Aberdeen, ID, USA. H.E. Bockelman. [201]

• Wheat germ plasm evaluations [244]
• PI assignments in Triticum, Secale, Aegilops, and X Triticosecale in 2008 [244]

V. CATALOGUE OF GENE SYMBOLS FOR WHEAT, 2009 SUPPLEMENT [256]

VI. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS VOLUME [279]

VII. ADDRESSES OF CONTRIBUTORS [282]

VIII. E-MAIL ADDRESSES OF SMALL GRAINS WORKERS [286]

IX. ANNUAL WHEAT NEWSLETTER FUND [297]

X. VOLUME 55 MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES [298]