| Preface | |
| Scientific Committee | |
| Conference sponsors | |
| Introduction | |
| The 6th Intenational Wheat Conference: Origin and History | p. 1 |
| A century of Mendelian breeding: Impact on wheat | p. 5 |
| Crop and natural resource management strategies to foster sustainable wheat production in developing countries | p. 23 |
| Prospects and promise of wheat breeding in the 21st century | p. 37 |
| Improving the end use properties of wheat by manipulating the grain protein composition | p. 53 |
| Molecular genetic studies on processing traits of wheat flour | p. 59 |
| Waiting for fine times: genetics of flowering time in wheat | p. 67 |
| Aspects of wheat rust research in Australia | p. 75 |
| Present strategies in resistance breeding against scab (Fusarium spp.) | p. 85 |
| Conservation of gene associations in commercial varieties of wheat | p. 97 |
| The impact of intellectual property rights on crop improvement | p. 107 |
| Marketing and economic impact of wheat biotech and novel technologies | p. 111 |
| The role of small and medium size private breeding companies in germplasm development | p. 117 |
| International collaboration on wheat improvement | p. 125 |
| International cooperative efforts in germplasm development: a private cooperative point of view | p. 137 |
| Wheat seed and seed supply | p. 141 |
| Development and system of plant variety registration in Hungary | p. 149 |
| Genetic diversity of wheat storage proteins and bread wheat quality | p. 157 |
| Marker assisted selection to improve HMW-glutenins in wheat | p. 171 |
| Expression of HMW subunit, [gamma]-zein and uidA genes in endosperms of transgenic bread wheat | p. 177 |
| Identification, cloning and characterisation of a HMW-Glutenin gene from an old Hungarian wheat variety, Bankuti 1201 | p. 183 |
| Quality influence comparison of some x- and y-type HMW glutenin subunits coded by Glu-D1 locus | p. 189 |
| Use of recombinant substitution lines for gene mapping and QTL analysis of bread making quality in wheat | p. 195 |
| Transformation of elite wheat varieties for improved end-use qualities: Modification of gibberellin levels and pre-harvest sprouting | p. 203 |
| Marker assisted recurrent selection for cumulating QTLs for bread-making related traits | p. 211 |
| Grain colour stability and classification of hard white wheat in the U.S. | p. 219 |
| Breeding for stability in bread milling quality | p. 229 |
| Genetic diversity of South African winter wheat cultivars in relation to preharvest sprouting and falling number | p. 237 |
| Wheat starch biosynthesis | p. 243 |
| Genetic variation for waxy proteins and starch properties in Italian wheat germplasm | p. 249 |
| Breeding for end-use quality: reflections on the Nebraska experience | p. 255 |
| Breeding for grain quality: a manipulation of gene frequency | p. 263 |
| Grain quality indices in the program of winter bread wheat breeding for the steppe region of Ukraine | p. 273 |
| Wheat quality requirements in China | p. 279 |
| Small-scale dough testing as a breeding and research tool | p. 285 |
| Small scale dough testing as a research tool for evaluating properties of single storage proteins chosen for wheat transformation | p. 291 |
| Detection of wheat maturation process by NIR | p. 297 |
| Comparative genetics and disease resistance in wheat | p. 305 |
| Molecular breeding for improved biotic stress resistance | p. 311 |
| Non specific adult plant disease resistance - genetics and molecular mapping | p. 317 |
| Transgenic wheat plants: a powerful breeding source | p. 325 |
| A new concept for multiple resistance breeding in wheat to leaf and ear diseases | p. 331 |
| Pyramiding strategy for durable resistance to wheat leaf rust pathogen | p. 337 |
| Physilogical basis of yield gains in wheat associated with LR19 translocation from Agropyron elongatum | p. 345 |
| Breeding for Fusarium head blight resistance in wheat | p. 353 |
| Genetic difference of resistance to Fusarium head blight in two wheat cultivars, Nobeokabouzu-komugi and Sumai 3 | p. 359 |
| Fusarium head blight resistance in doubled-haploid lines derived from crosses with a resistant winter wheat parent | p. 367 |
| Dynamics of changes in the races and virulence of wheat powdery mildew in Hungary between 1971 and 1999 | p. 373 |
| CIMMYT's approach to identity and use resistance to nematodes and soil-borne fungi, in developing superior wheat germplasm | p. 381 |
| Slow rusting in winter and facultative wheat infected with yellow rust | p. 391 |
| Seedling and adult-plant resistance to yellow rust | p. 397 |
| Chromosomal location of resistance to septoria tritici in seedlings of a synthetic hexaploid wheat, Triticum spelta and two cultivars of Triticum aestivum | p. 405 |
| Assessing Russian wheat aphid resitance in Hungarian and South African germplasm | p. 411 |
| Evaluation of the resitance of wheat (bread and durum) and Aegilops germplasm to sunn pest (Eurygaster integriceps Put.) | p. 415 |
| Development and characterization of common wheat - Thinopyrum intermedium translocation lines with resistance to barley yellow dwarf virus | p. 421 |
| Use of molecular markers in selecting for resistance to BYDV | p. 429 |
| Climate change, nitrogen and yield response of wheat crops | p. 435 |
| El Nino - southern oscillation influences on wheat crop in Brazil | p. 445 |
| Dark induced senescence as a tool in breeding wheat for optimum senescence pattern | p. 451 |
| Mapping of genes involved in glutathione, carbohydrate and COR14b cold induced protein accumulation during cold hardening in wheat | p. 457 |
| Glume pubescence and its influence on spikelet temperature of wheat under freezing conditions | p. 463 |
| Genes for frost resistance in wheat | p. 471 |
| Plant damage after freezing, and the frost resistance of varieties from the facultative and winter wheat observation nurseries | p. 481 |
| Photoperiod sensitivity during stem elongation as an avenue to raise potential yield in wheat | p. 487 |
| Progress in manipulation of genetic systems regulating flowering response in wheat | p. 497 |
| The importance of the period immediately preceding anthesis for grain weight determination in wheat | p. 503 |
| Effects of alien chromosome additions on photosynthesis in wheat | p. 511 |
| In vitro androgenesis of wheat from fundamentals to practical application | p. 517 |
| Utilization of the anther culture in wheat breeding and seed production | p. 527 |
| Sorting of mitotic chromosomes in common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) using flow cytometry | p. 531 |
| Wheat genetic transformation and its breeding aspects | p. 537 |
| Yield potential and bread-making quality of bread wheat hydrids produced using Genesis, a chemical hybridizing agent | p. 541 |
| New technique of "Jin Ao Lin" chemical hybridization and application of wheat hybridization | p. 551 |
| Comparison of three methods for developing heterotic groups in wheat (Triticum aestivum) | p. 555 |
| Computerised data management system for cereal breeding | p. 561 |
| Increasing yeild potential and yield stability in durum wheat | p. 569 |
| Grain yield and other traits of tall and dwarf isolines of modern bread and durum wheats | p. 579 |
| Breeding for manganese efficiency in durum wheat | p. 585 |
| SSR markers in the genetic relationship studies of Turkhish durum wheat varieties | p. 593 |
| Assessment of genotypic variation among cultivated durum wheat based on EST-SSRs and genomic SSRs | p. 597 |
| High yielding wheat versus economically competitive and environmentally friendly wheat | p. 603 |
| Methodology for selecting segregating populations for improved N-use efficiency in bread wheat | p. 611 |
| Winter wheat and establishment of sustainable production system in Ningxia, China | p. 621 |
| New, environmentally friendly wheat fertilizer advisory system for Hungary | p. 625 |
| Effects of temperature, drought, and fertilizer levels on grain development and gluten protein gene expression in a US wheat cultivar | p. 633 |
| Variety-specific fertilization in wheat production | p. 639 |
| Lodging in wheat: relationships with soil fertility and plant characteristics in southern Brazil | p. 647 |
| Breeding bread wheat for tolerance to Aluminum toxicity | p. 655 |
| Root growth and enzyme activity studies for indication of low pH stress in common and durum wheat | p. 665 |
| Accelerated breeding: dream or reality? | p. 671 |
| Breeding winter wheat for a dual-purpose management system | p. 681 |
| Crop rotation and tillage systems to control root rot and leaf spot diseases of wheat in Brazil | p. 687 |
| Physiological bases of wheat breeding tolerant to water stress | p. 693 |
| Wheat pre-breeding using wild progenitors | p. 699 |
| Alien genes in wheat improvement | p. 709 |
| Production and molecular cytogenetic analysis of wheat-barley hybrids and translocations | p. 721 |
| An efficient method for assigning traits to chromosomes | p. 727 |
| Comparative analyses of the genetic diversity among European spelt and wheat accessions with AFLP, RELP and SSR markers | p. 733 |
| Evaluation of a collection of wild wheat relative Aegilops geniculata Roth and identification of potential sources for useful traits | p. 739 |
| Allelic variation at the dwarfing gene Rht8 locus and its significance in international breeding programmes | p. 747 |
| How to organize wheat genetic resources to be convenient for breeding | p. 755 |
| Mining wheat germplasm collections for yield enhancing traits | p. 761 |
| Characterization of varieties for performance related aspects | p. 773 |
| Wheat in the host country | p. 781 |
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