Wheat Information Service No.9-10 Wheat Information Service No.9-10



Contents

I. Research Notes:
H. KUCKUCK:On the findings of Triticum Spelta L. in Iran and on the arising of Triticum aestivum-types through crossing of different Spelta-types, p.1
S. F. H. THRELKELD:Some studies concerning the metabolic basis for the speltoid-compactoid series in Triticum vulgare, p.2
B. RUSMINI:The breeding of Triticum durum by means of interspecies crosses, p.5
R. E. SCOSSIROLI:Radiation experiments on Triticum durum and Triticum vulgare, p.6
M. OKAMOTO:Chromosome pairing in the F1 of monosomic IX (Chinese Spring) x T. boeoticum Boiss., p.7
Z. KASAI, K. ASADA, Y. KAWASHIMA and M. MATSUURA, and K. YAMASHITA:14CO2 assimilation in germinating wheat, p.8
S. MATSUMURA:Genetic effects of thermal neutrons on wheat, p.8
S. MATSUMURA:Genetic effects of Beta- and gamma-radiations on Einkorn wheat, p.10
T. FUJII:Crossing experiments between basi-viridis II and other mutant strains of T. monococcum, p.11
T. FUJII:Double recessive plants between chlorina and striata of T. monococcum, p.12
M. NEZU:Relation of ploidy to radiation effect, p.12
K. KATSUYA:Susceptibility of chlorophyll mutants of Einkorn wheat to stem and leaf rusts, Puccinia graminis and P. triticina, p.14
H. HESLOT:Triticum ispahanicum: a new species of cultivated wheat from Iran, p.15
H. HESLOT:Ethyl methane sulfonate: a powerfull mutagenic agent for cultivated plants, p.16
G. E. DIXON:Wheat breeding in Kenya, p.16
A. HAGBERG and S. ELLERSTROM:Competition between diploid, tetraploid and aneuploid rye in " tetra-rye " populations in practical farming, p.19
S. ELLERSTROM:Effect of aneuploids on the yield of tetraploid rye, p.21
S. BOROJEVIC and K. BOROJEVIC:Information on the crossability of tetraploid rye with T. vulgare and Triticale, p.22
R. ROMMEL and B. C. JENKINS:Amphiploids in Triticinae produced at the University of Manitoba from March 1958 to December 1959, p.23
G. NAKAJIMA:Frequency of bivalents in meiosis of intergeneric F1 hybrids between Dinkel wheat and two species of Secale, ancestrale and Kukrijanovi, p.24
A. ZENNYOZI:Results of crossings between Triticum and Agropyron, p.25
F. C. ELLIOTT:Further information on an x-ray induced translocation of Agropyron stem rust resistance to common wheat, p.26
Y. WATANABE, K. MUKADE and K. KOKUBUN:Meiotic chromosome behaviours and cross-abilities of some species in the genus Agropyron, p.28
C. F. KONZAK and R. E. HEINER:Progress in the transfer of resistance to bunt (Tilletia Caries, and T. foetida) from Agropyron to wheat, p.31
A. T. PUGSLEY:Seed dormancy associated with red grain colour, p.31
M. MURAMATSU:Homology of chromosomes of Aegilops caudata with common wheat, p.32
J. TABUSHI:Aneuploids found in synthesized wheats, ABD Nos. 4 and 5, p.33
N. HIRATSUKA:Susceptibility of various strains or varieties of Aegilops squarrosa to yellow rust (Puccinia striiformis), brown rust (P. recondita f. sp. tritici) and black rust (P. graminis f. sp. tritici), p.34
M. S. CHENNAVEERAIAH and P. SARKAR:Chromosomes of Heteranthelium piliferum Hochst, p.42

II. K. YAMASHITA:A preliminary report of the Botanical Mission of the University of Kyoto (B. M. U. K.) to the Eastern Mediterranean Countries, April-July, 1959, p.43

III. Review:
A. B. BURDICK:Proceedings of the First International Wheat Genetics Symposium, p.49

IV. News and Editorial Remarks, p.50

Supplement:
General Table of Contents of WIS Nos. 1-10, (p.51)