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BARLEY GENETICS NEWSLETTER
Volume 5
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
T. E. Haus, Colorado
R. T. Ramage, Arizona
T. Tsuchiya, Colorado
Department of Agronomy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
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FOREWORD
Volume 5 of Barley Genetics Newsletter initiates the policy of charging
five U.S. dollars per copy to help meet publication and distribution costs.
Neither the quality nor the quantity of contributions have diminished as
a consequence of charging for copies. Several items concerning charges
have been brought to our attention. First, workers in West Germany, Sweden,
and Denmark are not charged for copies because these countries contribute
financial support for publication and distribution of the Newsletter. Barley
workers in some countries have difficulty with International currency exchange
and can not pay in U.S. dollars. As the purpose of BGN is to provide an
exchange of information as well as to serve as an official publication
for gene symbols and descriptions, stock designations and linkage maps,
all barley workers should receive a copy. Those workers experiencing difficulty
in paying in U.S. dollars will be sent copies free upon request. In such
cases, we will welcome an exchange of local publications for BGN. All publications
received in exchange for BGN will be kept at the Barley Genetic Stock Center
at Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, and a copy of part of the publication will
be made available to barley workers upon request.
Again, the editors solicit your suggestions and comments for improving the Newsletter. We will also remind you that a minimum of editing of manuscripts is done. Please follow the "Rules for Contribution" published in this volume.
The editors thank you for making this another successful volume of Barley Genetics Newsletter and we are looking forward to your contributions for Volume 6.
Editors.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Financial support for publication and distribution of this issue of
Barley Genetics Newsletter by the following agencies is greatly appreciated:
Financial support from Europe was arranged by:
1. West Germany, Drs. G. Fischbeck and H. Gaul.
2. Sweden, Drs. A. Gustafsson and A. Hagberg.
3. Denmark, Drs. J. Sandfaer and D. von Wettstein.
Financial support from the U.S.A.
4. National Science Foundation Research Grant GB 30493 A # 1 for "Maintenance
of Barley Genetic Stock Center" to T. Tsuchiya, Department of Agronomy,
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA was used partly
for publication of items related to the genetic and chromosomal stocks.
FRONT PAGE DIAGRAM - BARLEY KARYOTYPE
In 1950, Hagberg and Tjio showed the normal karyotype of barley studied
by a new technique - aceto-orcein staining of root tip cells after pretreatment
with oxyquinoline solution (Hagberg, A. and J. H. Tjio, 1950. Cytological
localization of the translocation point for the barley mutant erectoides.
Hereditas 36: 487-491).
