No new research work on earliness genes has been reported since the latest report in Barley Genetics Newsletter BGN 25:113. The revisions and new descriptions on the global earliness genes are in progress. The publication of these descriptions will hopefully be available in a special issue of Barley Genetics Newsletter during 1997. They also will then be entered into the Triticeae Genome Database "GrainGenes".

The stocks of the earliness genes are seed increased and available at the Genetics Stock Center in Aberdeen, ID, USA. Also the backcross-derived lines to Bowman, developed by J.D. Franckowiak, Fargo, ND, USA, are seed increased during 1996 and stored in Aberdeen, ID. The Swedish earliness genes are stored at the Nordic Gene Bank, Sweden.

Researchers in the field of earliness genes are encouraged to submit matters of interest to the coordinator as well. Seed requests can be done to the Genetics Stock Center or to the coordinator at any time.