Wheat Science-Today and Tomorrow.

Foreword Sir Otto Frankel Acknowledgements 1. The early history of wheat: earliest traces to the sack of Rome J. R. Harlan 2. Wheat genetic resources D. R. Marshall and A. H. D. Brown 3. Molecular aspects of wheat evolution: repeated DNA sequences W. J. Peacock, W. L. Gerlach and E. S. Dennis 4. Molecular aspects of wheat evolution: rubisco composition S. G. Wildman 5. Transfer of alien genetic material to wheat E. R. Sears 6. Prospects for wheat transformation J. Langridge 7. New approaches to wheat breeding C. J. Driscoll 8. Wheat: barley hybrids - the first eighty years K. W. Shepherd and A. K. M. R. Islam 9. Wheat and its rust parasites in Australia I. A. Watson 10. Wheat proteins: their chemistry and nutritional potential D. H. Simmonds 11. The development of the wheat flower: genetics and physiology O. H. Frankel, R. B. Knox and J. A. Considine 12. The interaction between the physiology and the breeding of wheat J. B. Passioura 13. Yield improvement in wheat: empirical or analytical? L. T. Evans 14. Competitive plants, communal plants, and yield in wheat crops C. M. Donald 15. Developments in wheat agronomy R. A. Fischer 16. Prospects R. Riley 17. Otto Frankel - contributions to wheat genetics M. J. D. White.