Contents

I. Research articles
Patra M and Chawla HS: Screening of wheat genotypes against toxin and pathogen of Helminthosporium sativum , p.1
Belay G and Merker A: C-band polymorphism and chromosomal rearrangements in tetraploid wheat (Triticum turgidum L.) Iandraces from Ethiopia , p.6
Peskircioglu Meral and Ozgen Murat: Identification of tetraploid Aegilops species from different altitudes of Turkey by gliadin electrophoresis, p.15
Brahma RN, Sivasamy M and Saikia Aloka: Transfer of alien genes Lr9, Lr24 and Lr28 to bread wheat cultivars susceptible to leaf rust , p. 21
Tsunewaki K Shimada T and Matsuoka Y: Transfer of Triticum urartu cyloplasm to emmer wheat is difficult, if not impossible, p. 27
Tomar SMS and Menon MK: Fast rusting to stem rust in Indian bread wheat cultivars carrying the genes Lr28 and Lr32 , p.32
Koval SF: Near-isogenic lines of spring common wheat Novosibirskaya 67 marked with short and long glume, p. 37
Yang Wu-Yun, Liu Den-Cai and Hu Xiao-Rong: Suppression of the crossability genes of Chinese Spring (CS) in amphiploids CS/Lophopyrum elongatum and CS/ Thinopyrum bessarabicum , p.43
Tomar SMS and Menon MK: Transfer of Agropyron elongatum-derived resistance genes Sr25 /Lrl9 into Indian bread wheat cultivars , p. 47

II. Report
Monison LA and Raupp WJ: GrainTax Synonymy Tables Project: June 1999 Progress Report , p.52
Snape JW and Hucl P: A Record from the Business Meeting of the 9th IWGS , p.57

III. Recent publications on wheat genetics, p. 60

IV. Editorial remarks, p. 76