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5. International Organizing Committee for the 10th IWGS

Professors Li Zhensheng (China), Bikram Gill (USA), Erie Kerber (Canada), A. Damania (India) were retiring from the Committee and the Conference thanked them for their contributions to the organization of the current Symposium. A nominations committee chaired by Professor Bob McIntosh (Australia) and comprising Profs. Moshe Feldman (Israel), Gary Hart (USA) and Koichiro Tsuenwaki (Japan) made the following recommendations for new members.
Pierre Hucl (Canada)
Olin Anderson (USA)
Lui Dajun (China)
Enrique Suarez (Argentina)
These were accepted by acclamation.

The full IOC for the 10th IWGS consists of:
Pierre Hucl (Canada): Chairman
John Snape (UK)
Peter Sharp (Australia)
Takashi Endo (Japan)
Noberto Pogna (Italy)
Olin Anderson (USA)
Lui Dajun (China)
Enrique Suarez (Argentina)

6. Venue of Next Meeting

Four nominations were received for the venue of the 10th IWGS and short presentations were made on behalf of each venue concerning the timing, facilities available, relevance to wheat genetics research and financial support:
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia: Dr. Peter Sharp
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA: Dr. Perry Gustafson
Institute for Cereals Research, Rome, Italy: Dr. Noberto Pogna
Ministry of Agriculture, Ankara, Turkey: Mr. Vehbi Eser
Following a free vote, the majority of votes cast recommended to the IOC that the venue of the 10th IWGS should be in Italy.

7. Catalogue of Gene Symbols for Wheat

Prof Bob McIntosh presented his report as Editor-in-Chief of the gene catalogue. He thanked his co-editors Dr. Mike Gale, Dr. Gary Hart, Dr. Katrien Devos and Dr. John Rogers for their hard work in compiling the catalogue. Prof. McIntosh outlined the very large increase in the catalogue since the inclusion of molecular marker data, and progress in further development of the catalogue. He informed the meeting that Dr. Jorge Dubovsky had been invited to become a new co-editor. Prof. McIntosh indicated his willingness to serve for a further five years, if the Symposium so wished.
The Chairmen thanked and congratulated Prof. McIntosh for his enormous contribution to wheat genetics in compiling the catalogue and the Symposium unanimously invited him to continue the work.

8. Wheat Information Service

Dr. T. Sasakuma presented information on the Wheat Information Service.

9. Reports from the Workshop Sessions

Brief presentations were given which summarized the presentations, discussions and conclusions of the Workshop Sessions held during the Symposium. Full transcripts to be posted electronically.
1) Taxonomy of the wheats: Dr. Laura Morrison
2) Abiotic Stress: Dr. M. Tahir
3) Genetic Resources Network: Drs. T, Endo/B. Skovmand
4) Hybrid wheat: Dr. Ian Edwards
5) Starch: Dr. Peter Sharp
6) Gene symbols in Triticum and Aegilops: Dr. Richard Wang
7) Wheat transformation: Drs. Monica Baga/Ann Blechl
8) Under-Utilized wheats: Dr. Sakti Jana

10. Any Other Business

There was no other business.

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