8th INTERNATIONAL WHEAT CONFERENCE

Sestili F., Botticella E., Janni M., Doherty A., Paoletti F., Jones H., D’Ovidio R.,
Lafiandra D.
Production of wheat high amylose starches through the knockout of SBEIIa genes ... 471
M.N.Shapturenko and L.V.Khotyleva
Formation of genetic variability at spring wheat Opal disomic lines ......................... 472
P. Strelchenko, O. Mitrofanova, F. Balfourier
Differentiation of wheat germplasm based on microsatellite loci analysis ................ 473
O.E. Sukhoveeva, G.I. Karlov
The application of multiplex polymerase chain reaction for the detection
of the leaf rust resistance genes of wheat ....................................................................... 475
Guozhong Sun, Guangxia You, Fei Yuan, Jingyan Sun, Haibo Wang, Shihe Xiao
Validation of 86 molecular markers and identification of 56 genes, Alleles
and QTLs in Chinese wheat cultivars ............................................................................. 476
Jo Anne Crouch, Sharadha Sakthikumar, Christina Cuomo, Zack A. Pretorius
and Les J. Szabo
A panel of SNP-based real-time PCR probes for the rapid and accurate
detection of Ug99 ............................................................................................................477
Abugalieva S.I., Turuspekov Y.K.
Genetic variation of Gli-2 in Kazakh wheat cultivars ................................................... 478
Wang Haibo
Problems should be paid attention in crop molecular breeding ................................. 479
Tobias Wuerschum and Jochen C. Reif
Association mapping in wheat ........................................................................................ 481
Aysen Yumurtaci, Yildiz Aydin, Fahriye Ertugrul, Ahu Altinkut Uncuoglu
Variability of salinity tolerance responses among bread and durum wheat
at morphology, physiology and transcript level ............................................................ 482
Kunpu Zhang, Daowen Wang, Guangfeng Chen, Jichun Tian
Identification of chromosomal regions conferring leaf morphological traits
in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) ............................................................................ 483
Plenary session 7: Wheat genetics and breeding for grain quality
Oral presentations
Peter R. Shewry and Gilles Charmet
Improving the health benefits of wheat grain ................................................................ 486
J.I. Ortiz-Monasterio, and W.H. Pfeiffer
HarvestPlus: A global effort to increase micronutrient concentration of wheat ...... 488
S. L. K. Hsam, F.L. Stoddard
Development of wheat genotypes with novel starch characteristics .......................... 490
N. A. Litvinenko, A. I. Rybalka
Achievements and new genetic aspects of winter bread wheat grain quality
improvement in breeding programs of Plant Breeding & Genetics Institute............ 491
NI Jing, XU Zhi-bin, WANG Tao
Dynamic change of grain sugar, starch, protein contents during grain filling
stage in waxy wheat........................................................................................................... 492