Many subscribers must have enjoyed in attending the 10th International Wheat Genetics Symposium held in Paestum, Italy in the last September. To researchers who could not attend it, please know the atmospheres of fruitful and enjoyable meeting in the present issue.
We are very proud that Dr. Bob Mcintosh (Univ. of Sydney) and Dr. Yukiko Yamazaki (National Institute of Genetics, Japan) had contributed for construction of new system of gene catalogue of wheat. Since 1983, the annual supplement of wheat gene catalogue has been printed in WIS, and it was one of the raison d'etre of WIS. Now, since the new system has established (it is called as MacGene after initializing the contributors), updating is easy, and construction of `my catalogue' is possible after downloading from the database of KOMUGI ( http://www.shigen.nig.ac.jp/wheat/genecalog/macgene/.)
We are glad to have continuous contributions of sending manuscript of research article. The proportion of acceptance after reviewing is about 40% in the last year. However, there are several problems faced: 1) financial difficulty, 2) contribution from limited countries, 3) poor quality for scientific description and manner (some had sent the revised article after rejection). Please support to develop WIS as the worldwide informative journals.
December, 2003
Editors of WIS
K. Nishikawa (Chief), T. Sasakuma, H. Tsujimoto and K Furukawa (Publication
secretary)