RECENT ADVANCES IN ALIEN GENE-TRANSFER IN WHEAT

The recent advances in alien gene transfer from distantly-related spec ies into wheat are reviewed in the present paper. The main achievement s during the last ten years include the great expansion of the range o f wide hybridization and development of new techniques for production and characterization of wheat-alien chromosome translocations. Updated results of wide hybridization since 1983 and comprehensive characteri zation of wheat-alien translocation lines in our laboratory are compil ed. The future outlook for alien gene transfer in wheat is also discus sed.