Part I Wheat Genetics: Past, Present, and Future .- 1 Prof. H. Kihara\'s genome concept and advancements in wheat cytogenetics in his school.- 2 How a gene from Japan revolutionized the world of wheat: CIMMYT\'s quest for combining genes to mitigate threats to global food security.- Part II Germplasm and Genetic Diversity .- 3 Genetic resources of Triticum.- 4 Development of core set of wheat (Triticum spp.) germplasm conserved in the National Genebank in India.- 5 Transfer to wheat of potentially new stem rust resistance genes from Aegilops speltoides.- 6 Genetic variation and its geographical distribution in Aegilops caudata L.: morphology, hybrid sterility and gametocidal genes.- Part III Cytogenetics and Allopolyploid Evolution .- 7 Wheat chromosome analysis.- 8 New aneuploids of common wheat.- 9 Chromosomal changes over the course of polyploid wheat evolution and domestication.- Part IV Toward Whole Genome Sequencing .- 10 Comprehensive functional analyses of expressed sequence tags in common wheat.- 11 Development of the BAC physical maps of wheat chromosome 6B for its genomic sequencing.- Part V Structural and Functional Genomics .- 12 Sequencing of wheat chromosome 6B: toward functional genomics.- 13 Genetic mechanisms of vernalization requirement duration in winter wheat cultivars .- 14 Building ultra-dense genetic maps in the presence of genotyping errors and missing data.- Part VI Functional Gene Analysis and Molecular Tools .- 15 Exploiting comparative biology and genomics to understand a trait in wheat, Ph1.- 16 The specific features of anthocyanin biosynthesis regulation in wheat.- 17 Association of wheat miRNAs with hybrid incompatibility in interspecific crosses of Triticum and Aegilops.- 18 High efficiency wheat transformation mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens.- 19 extra early-flowering (exe) mutants in einkorn wheat generated by heavy-ion beam irradiation.- Part VII Biotic Stress Response .-\n20 Stem rust resistance - two approaches.- 21 Germplasm enhancement for resistance to Pyrenophora tritici-repentis in wheat.- 22 Next Generation Sequencing enabled genetics in hexaploid wheat.- Part VIII Abiotic Stress Response .- 23 Genomics approaches to dissect the genetic basis of drought resistance in durum wheat.- 24 Hybrid breeding in wheat.- 25 Broadening the genetic diversity of common and durum wheat for abiotic stress tolerance breeding.- 26 Early maturity in wheat for adaptation to high temperature stress.- 27 Gene expression profiles involved in development of freezing tolerance in common wheat.- Part IX Improvement of Grain Quality .- 28 Coping with wheat quality in a changing environment - Proteomics evidence for stress caused by environmental changes.- 29 Starch modification: a model for wheat MAS breeding.- 30 Quality characteristics of soft kernel durum - a new cereal crop.- 31 Proposal of international gluten research group.- 32 Enlargement of the genetic diversity for grain quality in bread wheat through alien introgression.- 33 Complex G x E interactions and QTL clusters govern end-use quality traits in hexaploid wheat.- 34 A consistent QTL for flour yield on chromosome 3B in the soft winter wheat variety, Kitahonami.- Part X Marker-Assisted Breeding .- 35 Recent improvements in Japanese wheat varieties.- 36 Determining the order of resistance genes Qsng-3BS, Fhb1 and Sr2 and combining them in coupling on wheat chromosome 3BS.- 37 Meta-analysis of resistance to Fusarium head blight in tetraploid wheat - implications for durum wheat breeding.- 38 Interest of a multiparental and outcrossing wheat population for fine mapping.- 39 The effect of Earliness per se (Eps) genes on flowering time in bread wheat.- Part XI Toward Sustainable Wheat Production .- 40 Recapitulating the OECD-CRP session (sponsored by the OECD\'s Co-operative Research Program on Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems.- 41 Exploring genetic resources to increase adaptation of wheat to climate change.- 42