The, 9th International Wheat Genetics Symposium was successfully held in Aug. 2-8, 1998 at beautiful wheat land of Saskatchewan. We enjoyed a lot of, various kinds of program, project, information, and people. Thanks to the organizing committee. The formal records will be announced later, but contact for the details including purchase of five volumes of proceedings and a independent volume of formal gene symbol catalog.

WIS has accepted about 50 newly-jointed members during 91WGS. Just sending your mailing address through general mail or e-mail; yamabosi@yokohama-cu.ac.jp will be enough to be registered. Subscribers contributed to the financial donation (2,000 Japanese Yen or US$25) will receive a nice greeting card for the receipt, and, of cause, will be very much appreciated for the next year.

In the present volume of WIS, the record from 26th Wheat Genetic Symposium of Japan is printed with abstracts. If you have such information or record of any academic meetings related to wheat genetics and breeding, please send them to the office to be published in WIS, although suitability and the page limitation (within 10 printed pages) should be considered by the editorial board.

Dr. Kozo Nishikawa has retired from Kihara Memorial Foundation last spring, but he will continue to work as an editor in chief of Wheat Information Service. Thanks for his effort.

T. S.