A. Report of the Coordinating Committee of the Rice Genetics Cooperative

A meeting of the Coordinating Committee of RGC was held at Tokyo on July 31, 1994 on the occasion of 4th International Workshop on Rice Molecular Biology. Present were: Drs. Y. Futsuhara, A. Hirai, N. Iwata, G. S. Khush, T. Kinoshita, H. Morishima, H. I. Oka, K. Takeda and K. Tonyama.

Matters related to 3rd International Rice Genetics Symposium were discussed. First circular regarding the symposium was mailed in the end of June 1994. it was decided to have oral as well as poster sessions. There will be plenary lectures in the morning and concurrent sessions in the afternoon. If you have not sent the registration forms as yet, please send those to one of the secretaries (G. S. Khush or T. Kinoshita) as soon as possible. We are looking forward to seeing you at the symposium.

M. E. Takahashi, Chairman

K. J. Lampe, Co-Chairman

Memorandum

The numbering system of rice chromosomes adopted on the basis of agreement at the 2nd International Rice Genetics Sumposium (May 1990, IRRI) is presented in RGN 7 (1990, p.13), in comparison with karyotype numbers, Nishimura's numbers and linkage groups. The numbering of linkage groups is changed to follow the corresponding number of chromosomes.