I. 1. Barley Genetics III
Barley Genetics III - Proceedings of the Third International Barley Genetics Symposium can be purchased from:
Verlag Karl Thiemig
Postfach 90 0740
D-8000 Munchen 90 FRG
The price is DM 130.-. These Proceedings contain 95 full papers and 35 abstracts. Scientists from 36 countries participated, reflecting the worldwide interest in barley. The volume has 849 pages with 270 figures; format 24 x 16 cm., paperback.
I. 2. The Genetic Basis of Epidemics in Agriculture. Edited by Peter R. Day. Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Dept. of Genetics.
On April 5-8, 1976, the New York Academy of Sciences sponsored a conference on the Genetic Basis of Epidemics in Agriculture. The organization of the conference itself stemmed to the 1969 epidemic of corn that destroyed a substantial portion of the 1970 crop and revealed that 75% of U.S. corn was uniformly vulnerable to a new form of southern corn leaf blight - a susceptibility that was due to genetic conformities created by agricultural technology.
Because a committee of the National Academy of Sciences found that other crops were similarly vulnerable, The Genetic Basis of Epidemics in Agriculture was held to assess the current situation, not only in the United States but also in other countries, as well as to examine current theories on the cause of epidemics and how crops can be protected in the future.
The proceedings of this conference, published on February 25, 1977, bring together 30 papers by plant pathologists, entomologists, plant breeders, epidemilogists and geneticists. The papers are grouped under the following sections:
Genetic Vulnerability: A World Problem
Crop and Parasite Populations: Genetic Models
Genetics and Physiology of Epidemics: Causes and Mechanisms
Specific Examples of Epidemics
Specific Examples of Plant Breeding and Agronomic Programs
More Examples of Breedings and Agronomic Programs
Sources of Genetic Diversity
The Genetic Basis of Epidemics in Agriculture confirms that genetic conformity is a pronounced trend in modern agriculture that directly threatens us with catastrophe. The purpose of the present volume is to summarize current knowledge, provide direction for further research and planning, to promote an exchange of ideas and information so that the circumstances involved are clearly understood and so that ways of averting epidemics are developed and tested.
Price: $35.00 (Please add $1.00 mailing and handling)
Published February 25, 1977
400 Pages 30 papers ISBN: 0-89072-033-9
To order, mail your remittance or purchase order to:
THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Post Office Box 5075 F. D. R. Station
New York, New York 10022
I. 3 North American Barley Workers Conference
The conference will be held at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon during the week of July 24, 1978. This date was selected on the basis of the results of a recent questionnaire and also on the basis of the availability of local facilities. It is impossible to choose a date which does not inconvenience someone. All I can do is offer my apologies to those who do not favor this date.
We have not finalized any details yet but plan to organize a fishing trip to northern Saskatchewan and a tour of barley growing areas in western Canada if there is sufficient interest. We shall be selecting a program committee in the near future and will inform you when this is done. In the meantime, if you have any suggestions for the program, please forward them to me or to Dr. John Moseman. We shall ensure that the program committee gets them.
Mark your calendars now and plan to be with us next year. We shall do our best to make this an outstanding conference.
B. L. Harvey, President
Crop Science Department
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Canada
I. 4. Call for Contributions to Barley Genetics Newsletter, Volume 8, 1978
Barley Genetics Newsletter Vol. 8 will be published in April 1978. Please send your manuscripts on or before January 31, 1977.
Rules and regulations for preparing the manuscript are the same as the ones reported in BGN 5: 2-4, and previous issues.
Editors ask contributors to do the following:
1. Correspondence regarding the Barley Genetics Newsletter should be separated from other items to avoid confusion.
2. Please prepare your manuscript in the similar way to papers published in previous issues of BGN.
3. Please type tables on a separate sheet. Some complicated tables should be typed in final form, so that we can use them without retyping. This will prevent making mistakes and help editors very much; proof reading of complicated tables is time consuming.
4. MANUSCRIPT SHOULD BE PROOF-READ BEFORE IT IS SUBMITTED TO THE EDITORS.
5. ERRATA: Even though the editors have spent a considerable amount of time in correcting typographical errors, there probably are still some mistakes and errors present. Some of the mistakes and errors were in the original manuscripts. We ask each contributor of an article to read his or her own paper carefully and inform us of any errors or mistakes the author may find. Sometimes one may be able to find errors more easily in someone else's paper than his own. We need your assistance in identifying those errors and mistakes. We would appreciate your cooperation on this matter for the improvement of BGN.
Editors