| Preface | |
| Organizing Committee | |
| Benefactors of the Conference | |
| Financial and other support | |
| Opening session | |
| Agricultural development and wheat breeding in the 20th century | p. 1 |
| Wheat research in Turkey | p. 11 |
| Strategies for improving wheat grain yield | p. 17 |
| Yield and stability factors associated with hybrid wheat | p. 23 |
| Breeding intensive winter bread wheat varieties for Southern Ukraine | p. 29 |
| Traditional and novel wheat breeding methods used in Hungary | p. 37 |
| Progress of wheat breeding research in China | p. 47 |
| Wheat breeding strategies and cultivation technologies in Siberia | p. 55 |
| Breeding for yield and quality in durum wheat | p. 61 |
| Durum wheat breeding at the Cereal Research Institute, Szeged, Hungary | p. 65 |
| Breeding wheat for resistance to biotic stresses | p. 71 |
| Breeding wheat for resistance to fusarium head blight in Romania | p. 87 |
| Comparison of two crossing and four selection schemes for yield, yield traits, and slow rusting resistance to leaf rust in wheat | p. 93 |
| Bunts and smuts of wheat in North Africa and the Near East | p. 103 |
| Seedling and adult plant resistance to yellow rust in Iranian bread wheats | p. 109 |
| Breeding wheat for resistance to Heterodera avenae in Southeastern Australia | p. 113 |
| Sunn pest problems in Central Anatolia and the role of wheat varieties in integrated control | p. 121 |
| Russian wheat aphid in Konya province | p. 127 |
| Improving wheat grain filling under stress by stem reserve mobilisation | p. 135 |
| Evaluating physiological traits to complement empirical selection for wheat in warm environments | p. 143 |
| A concept of selection for 'low input' wheat varieties | p. 153 |
| System analysis of frost resistance in winter and its use in breeding | p. 159 |
| Plant traits related to yield of wheat in early, late, or continuous drought conditions | p. 167 |
| Breeding wheat for lodging resistance, earliness and tolerance to abiotic stresses | p. 181 |
| Studies on differential response of wheat cultivars to boron toxicity | p. 189 |
| Method for screening bread wheat for tolerance to boron | p. 197 |
| Wheat breeding for end-product use | p. 203 |
| Effect of heat shock during grain filling on protein composition and technological quality of wheats | p. 213 |
| Wheat quality requirements of Asian foods | p. 221 |
| Baking quality of hard winter wheat: Response of cultivars to environment in the Great Plains | p. 223 |
| Breeding durum wheat for pasta-quality in Canada | p. 229 |
| Classification of wheat grains by digital image analysis using statistical filters | p. 237 |
| Breeding for breadmaking quality using old Hungarian wheat varieties | p. 245 |
| Grain yield and quality: does there have to be a trade-off? | p. 249 |
| Cytoplasmic effects on quality traits of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) | p. 255 |
| Variation in endosperm protein composition and technological quality properties in durum wheat | p. 263 |
| Golden calves or white elephants? Biotechnologies for wheat improvement | p. 273 |
| Molecular wheat breeding by direct gene transfer | p. 285 |
| Simulations and practical problems of applying multiple marker assisted selection and doubled haploids to wheat breeding programs | p. 291 |
| Identification of a new family of tandem repeats in Triticeae genomes | p. 297 |
| Biotechnological and cytogenetic aspects of producing new wheat genotypes using hybrids | p. 305 |
| Comparative genetic mapping of loci affecting plant height and development in cereals | p. 311 |
| Relationship between anther culture response and aluminium tolerance in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) | p. 315 |
| Production of polyhaploids of hexaploid wheat using stored pearl millet pollen | p. 319 |
| Genetic segregation and the detection of spontaneous wheat-alien translocations | p. 327 |
| Characterisation of powdery mildew resistant lines derived from crosses between Triticum aestivum and Aegilops speltoides and Ae. mutica | p. 335 |
| Bread wheat: F1 hybrid performance and parental diversity estimates using molecular markers | p. 339 |
| Screening for zinc efficiency among wheat relatives and their utilisation for alien gene transfer | p. 347 |
| Direct and indirect selection for drought tolerance in alien tetraploid wheat x durum wheat crosses | p. 353 |
| Impact of plant genetic resources on wheat breeding | p. 361 |
| Analysis of genetic profiles of winter wheats from Russia | p. 371 |
| Integrating research on genetic resources with the international wheat information system | p. 379 |
| Conservation, research, utilisation and international exchange of wheat germplasm in China | p. 385 |
| The use of wheat-alien and Aegilops-rye amphiploids for introgression of genetic material to wheat | p. 391 |
| Importance of wheat-rye translocations for breeding modern cultivars of Triticum aestivum L. | p. 401 |
| The physiological life cycle of wheat: Its use in breeding and crop management | p. 419 |
| Morphological and physiological differences in the response of cereals to zinc deficiency | p. 427 |
| Effect of nitrate nutrition on nitrate compartmentation, nitrate reductase activity and productivity in spring wheat | p. 437 |
| Recent attempts to evaluate and apply wheat simulation models, and to simplify the storage and exchange of experimental data | p. 445 |
| Reduced and zero-tillage options for establishment of wheat after rice in South Africa | p. 455 |
| Response of bread and durum wheat varieties to supplemental irrigation, nitrogen application and planting date | p. 467 |
| Continuous spring wheat grown under semi-arid conditions of Northern Kazakhstan | p. 481 |
| Wheat yield response to fertilisation: An investigation of a functional form | p. 485 |
| Genetic systems regulating flowering response in wheat | p. 491 |
| Genetic resources of wheat related species: The Vrn genes controlling growth habit (spring vs. winter) | p. 503 |
| Photoperiod and vernalisation response of Mediterranean wheats, and implications for adaptation | p. 509 |
| The influence of photoperiod genes on the adaptability of European winter wheats | p. 517 |
| Selecting winter/facultative wheat genotypes from spring x spring crosses | p. 527 |
| International collaboration in cereal breeding | p. 533 |
| Wheat: India and international collaboration | p. 539 |
| Breeding strategies and recent progress of the China/CIMMYT wheat shuttle breeding program | p. 547 |
| Breeding priorities of winter wheat programs | p. 553 |
| Network for integrated research to improve durum wheat productivity in the Mediterranean region | p. 561 |
| Concluding remarks at the closing session | p. 571 |
| List of participants | p. 573 |
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