I. BREEDING AND EVALUATION Page

Wang, Y. J. and C. G. Campbell : Interspecific Hybridization in Buckwheat Among Fagopyrum esculentum, F. homotropicum and F. tataricum ................................................ 1

Chaudhary, Narendra Kr. : Genetic study on collection, evaluation and conservation of buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum Gaertn.) genetic resources in Nepal ....................... 13

Baniya, B. K., D. M. S. Dongol, S. R. Upadhyay, N. R. Dhungel :Traditional methods of buckwheat cultivation in Nepal ...................................................................... 20

Baniya, B. K., D. M. S. Dongol, S. R. Upadhyay, N. R. Dhungel : Review on 
buckwheat gene pool utilization in Nepal ........................................................................... 33

Clarke, Stuart, Chris Bluett, Robin Jessop, Bob Colton and Ross Sheppard : The buckwheat industry on mainland Australia ....................................................................... 50

Zhao Z. C., Zhou, M. D., Luo D. Z., Li F. L. and Cao J. X. : Ethno Botanical Investigation of Tartary Buckwheat in China...................................................................... 57

Taranenko, L. K., Taranenko P. P., Yatsishin O. L., Karazhbey P. P., Reznitchenko S. M. : The use of inbreeding in buckwheat breeding for heterosis .......... 65

Oba, Shinya, Atsuko Ohta and Fumihiro Fujimoto : Grain Shattering Habit of Buckwheat (Fagopyrum spp.) .................................................................................... 70

Guozhu, Li, Gao Zhiqiang, Wang Jinsheng and Guo Chunrong : Studies on the Isozymes of Irradiation Mutants in Buckwheat ................................................................. 78

Tahir, I. and S. Farooq : Buckwheat Research in Kashmir ............................................ 83

Michalova, Anna : Study of Relationships Between Yield and Quality Characters of Common Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench.) .................................................. 88

Michalova, Anna, Ladislav Dotlacil and Lubos Cejka : Evaluation of Common Buckwheat Cultivars ....................................................................................................... 97

Rajbhandari, B. and E. O. Hatley : Buckwheat Genetic Resourches: Bio-Morphological and Eco-Physiological Characteristics of Nepali Buckwheat Species and Ecotypes ........ 109

Xiulian Li, Yiaowen Zhang, Xueying Zhao, Aaihua Qiao and Rui Fan Bai: Cluster Analysis of Tartary Buckwheat in China .............................................................. 124

Byung Han Choi, Sung Kook Kim, Deuk Young Song, Sun Lim Kim and Sung Kuen Oh : Buckwheat Research Highlights in Korea ........................................ 133

Gang, Zhao and Tang Yu : A Study on the Main Characters of the New Buckwheat Variety 97-1 ................................................................................................ 141

Dutta, M., D. Subrahmanyam, R. Prasad and B. Bandyopadhyay : Breeding Buckwheat for the Himalayan Region: Significance of Physiological Parameters .............. 146

Ma, Junyi, Jianyu Wang and Lanhai Mu : Exploit Buckwheat Resources of South Ni Mountain Areas and Found the Base of Raw Materials ................................... 155

Litvinyuk, E. : Usage of Determinant Forms in Selection of Buckwheat ...................... 159

Falendysh, L. G. and E. S. Alekseeva : Productivity of the Hybrids Green-Floret Tetraploid of Buckwheat .......................................................................... 162

Kushnir, V. : Reaction of Hybrids of Buckwheat to the Treatment of the Seeds with Mutagens .................................................................................................... 167

Rarok, V. A. : Experimental Mutagenesis as a Method of Buckwheat Selection ...................................................................................................................... 169

Alekseeva, E. :Intensive and High-Quality Buckwheat Varieties of Different Use, the Methods of their Breeding and Formation of National Buckwheat Germplasm Bank of Genus Fagopyrum ....................................................................... 173

Fesenko, N. V. and G. E. Martynenko : Contemporary Trends in Evolution of Common Buckwheat in East-European Zone and their Use in Breeding ................... 177

Fesenko, N. N., G. E. Martynenko, H. Funatsuki and O. J. Romanova : Express Evaluation of Russian and Japanese Varieties of Buckwheat Based on Charasteristics - Indicators of Duration of Vegetation Period .................................... 185

Martynenko, G. E. : Determinant Buckwheat Forms ................................................... 193

Fesenko, A. N. and N. N. Fesenko : Selection of Auto-Fertile Buckwheat Lines for High Vitability ............................................................................................... 202

Zadorin, A. : Buckwheat Planting and Processing Tecnology in Russia ....................... 205

Fesenko, N. V., G. E. Martynenko, V. V. Kolomeichenko, V. I. Savkin and M. A. Fesenko : Peculiarities of Production Process of Limited Branching Buckwheat Variety Ballada ............................................................................................ 209

Savkin, V. I., M. A. Fesenko and V. V. Kolomeichenko : Peculiarities of Morphogenesis and Production Process of Buckwheat Sortotype Troika ....................... 217

Rana, J. C. : Genetic Diversity and Correlation Analysis in Tartary Buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) Gene Pool ............................................................. 222

Xiaoyan Zhang, Min Su, Zong fan Lu and Takeda : Classification Analysis of Buckwheat Resources ............................................................................................... 233

Tkachev, A. T. : Cytogenetic Studies of Meiotic Chromosome Behaviour in a Diploid and Autotetraploid Buckwheat Fagopyrum esculentum Moench. ...................... 243

Kreft, Ivan : A Genetic Basis for Buckwheat Breeding ................................................. 255

Santo-Tomas, Noemi and Jean-Francois : Evolution of Flowering and Ripening within Inflorescence of Buckwheat Plants ................................................. 266

Gavrilyuk, V. B. : Usage of Method of Processing Sprouts of Buckwheat with Mutagens in Selection of Some Morphophysiological Features .............................. 272

Gao Lirong : Study of Semidwarf Variation of Common Buckwheat ............................ 274

Rimma Tarasova, Viktor Kovalenko and Vladimir Shumny :A Study of Isozymic Spectrum Polymorphism in Cultivar Populations and Inbred Lines of the Buckwheat Fagopyrum esculentum Moench. ....................................................... 277

Zhong Yinlian, Yao Ziqiang and Piong Jifu : Buckwheat Production Investigation in Hunan .................................................................................................... 281

Mineo Minami, Akio Ujihara and C. Campbell : Morphology of semi-dwarf common buckwheat 'G410' and its response to growth conditions ................................. 285

Hyoji Namai : Geographical and seasonal disruptive selection is an effective breeding method in common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench.), a typical heterostylous outcrosser .................................................................................. 293

Woo, S. H., A. Nair, J. Aii and T. Adachi : Breeding of a new species of autogamous buckwheat ................................................................................................. 301

Woo, S. H., S. K. Jong and T. Adachi : Isolation of protoplasts from cells of the female gametophyte in common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench.) .............. 317

Woo, S. H., S. K. Jong and T. Adachi : Plant regeneration from hypocotyl of common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) and wild annual buckwheat (F. homotropicum) ........................................................................................................ 326

Rufa, Lin and Wellong Jia : Research and Utilization of Tartary Buckwheat .............. 334
 

II. PHYSIOLOGY

Dua, I. S. : Ca⁺⁺ dependent transport of ions into the grains of buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench.) and its regulation by gibberellins .................................. 1

Goos, R. J., D. Zhang, B. E. Johnson, P. Carr, B. Shatz and S. Edwardson : A comparison of the nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer responses of spring wheat and buckwheat .................................................................................................................. 2

Park, C. H., K. Heo, S. Y. Choi, B. J. Park, W. H. Pai and K. C. Lee : Effects of Seeding Dates, Location, and Plant Density on Growth and Yield of Buckwheat in Kangwon Province ........................................................................................................ 6

Li, Xiulian, Yiaowen Zhang, Xueying Zhao, Rui fan Bai, Xinghai Shi and Aihua Qiao : Research on Ecological Characters to Temperature of Common Buckwheat Varieties ....................................................................................................... 11

Gang, Zhao and Tang Yu : A Primary Study of Increasing the Production Rate of Buckwheat .......................................................................................................... 18

Tang Yu, Zhao Gang and Qiu Shifeng : Effect of Planting Density of Growth and Yield of Tartary Buckwheat ..................................................................................... 24

Pecio, Alicja and Stanislaw Krasowicz : Economical Factors of Buckwheat Cultivation Using Ecological Agronomy .......................................................................... 29

Mineo Minami, Akio Ujihara : Image Analysis of Plant Shape in Common Buckwheat ...................................................................................................................... 35

Wude Yang, Yiaoling Hao, Guozhu Li, Naijian Zhou, Rufa Lin and Mingde Zhou : Relatioship Between Reproductive Growth of Common Buckwheat and Light Duration .......................................................................................................... 44

Xiaoling Hao, Wude Yang, Guozhu Li, Naijian Zhou, Rufa Lin and Mingde Zhou : Relatioship Between Vegetative Growth of Common Buckwheat and Light Duration .......................................................................................................... 49

Yongliang Wang : Study of the Effect of Nitrogen Fertilizer on Buckwheat and Techniques of Control Nitrogen Application by Means of Testing Leaves ........................ 57

Zheng Zhang, Zhuanhua Wang, Qiang Zhang and Rufa Lin : Rapid Separation and Quantification of the Internal Hormones from Tartary Buckwheat Leaf Using High Performance Liquid Chromatography ..................................................................... 60

Wang, Yongliang, Yuming Jiang, Yuhe Zi, Suhe Wang, Zongni Yang and Bao Zhang : Study on Accumulation of Buckwheat Dry Matter and Its Growth Rhythm in Semiarid Region ............................................................................................. 64

N. Arya and V. P. Singh : Protection of Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) from Different Salinity Stress by Triazoles ....................................................................... 68

Hiroyasu Michiyama and Shigeki Sakurai : Effect of Day and Night Temperature on the Growth of Common Buckwheat ....................................................... 76

Grazyna Podolska and Alicja Pecio : Yield Components and Canopy Architecture of Buckwheat Under Different Soil Conditions ............................................ 80

Satoshi Murayama, Yoichiro Oana, Toshiaki Nakayama and Hideo Ogihara : Fertilizer Response of Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum M.) on Andosol ....................................................................................................................... 87

Robin S. Jessop, Dale A. Clark and Sarah Williams : Factors Affecting Flowering Efficiency in Australian Buckwheat ................................................................. 92

A. Burejko, E. Kvashchuk and S. Voronetskiy : Influence of Biohumus and Fluid Fertilizer on the Field Germinative Capacity of Buckwheat Plants ......................... 102

Z. I. Glazova : Influence of Weather and Anthropogenic Factors on Buckwheat Yield ............................................................................................................................. 106

N. E. Pavlovska, L. V. Golyshkin and R. V. Kostylev : Physiologic Response of Buckwheat of Salts of Heavy Metals ......................................................................... 109

Weilong Jia, Lili Yang, Rufa Lin, Xiaomei Zhou and Jiangato Zhang : Effect of Phenyl Urea Derivatives (PUD) on Root Growth and Photosynthetic Rate of Tartary Buckwheat ........................................................................................... 116

Zhong Xinglian and Yao Ziqiang : Plant Characters and Yield of Microelement Soaked Buckwheat ........................................................................................................ 119

Natalia Budagovskaya : Effect of Iron Deficiency and Low pH on the State of Shoots and Roots of Buckwheat Plants of Different Cultivars ........................... 129

A. P. Lakhanov and G. V. Lenkova : To the problem of reutilization in buckwheat seed forming ................................................................................................ 135

III. UTILIZATION

L. J. Malcolmson, R. Przybylski, D. Ryland, N. A. M. Eskin, L. Armstrong and G. Mazza : Flavor Stability of Stored Buckwheat ................................................... 1

N. A. M. Eskin, R. Przybylski, L. J. Malcolmson, D. Ryland, and G. Mazza : The Effect of Temperature and Water Activity on Rutin, Chlorophylls and Color of Stored Bucwheat ................................................................................................ 3

R. Przybylski, N. A. M. Eskin, J. Malcolmson, D. Ryland, and G. Mazza : Formation of Off-Flavor Components During Storage of Buckwheat ................................ 7

Yimin Wei, Guoquan Zhang and Wolfgang Sietz : Effect of Artemisia sphaerocephala Kraschen on the Rheological Properties of Buckwheat Flour..................... 11

Valeriy Kaminskiy, Oleg Povaduk and Victor Krasnoselskiy : Optimization of Pre-Drying and Steaming of Buckwheat Grains with Wet Processing and Secondary Heat Utilization................................................................................................. 16

Kathryn J. Steadman and Ralph L. Obendorf : The Use of Buckwheat Bran Milling Fraction in Bread ........................................................................................ 21

Takanori Kusano, Takashi Oita, Naoaki Izumita, Hiroko Chiue and Sukeyoshi Hayashi : Studies on Food Utilization of Buckwheat: Beer-Like Alcoholic Beverage of Tartaricum Buckwheat ................................................................. 27

Toshitaka Yasuda, Hirofumi Shinoyama and Hiroki Nakagawa : Purification and Characterization of the Rutin-Degrading Enzymes in Tartary Buckwheat Seeds and the Activity of the Enzymes in the Presence of Organic Solvents .................... 30

Zhao Minghe and Qiu Fukang : Tartary Flavonoids Characteristics and Its Applications ................................................................................................................... 40

Wakako Maruyama, Hideyuki Funatsuki and Masamichi Agatsuma : Two-Dimensional Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis to Highly Resolve Seed Proteins of Buckwheat ............................................................................................. 46

Sabine Scheucher, Mateja Modic, Vekoslava Stibilj and Ivan Kreft : Buckwheat Bread as s Possible Source of Dietary Selenium ............................................ 51

Kiyokazu Ikeda, Rie Arai and Ivan Kreft : A Molecular Basis of the Textural Characteristics of Buckwheat Products .............................................................. 57

Sayoko Ikeda, Yashiko Yamashita and Ivan Kreft : Nutritional and Functional Characteristics of Minerals in Buckwheat ........................................................................ 61

Ralph L. Obendorf : Buckwheat Fagopyritols ............................................................... 65

Yakov E. Dunaevsky and Mikhail A. Belozersky : Protease of Limited Specificity in Buckwheat Seeds ....................................................................................... 72

Mikhail Belozersky, Tatiana A. Tsybina, Galina A. Beliakova, Tatiana N. Gruban and Yakov E. Dunaevsky : Protease Inhibitors in Buckwheat Seeds: Properties, Amino Acis Sequences, Classification and Possible Biological Role ............................................................................................................... 78

Helena Rybak-Chmielewska and Teresa Szczesna : The Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) Content of Buckwheat Honey .............................................................................. 85

Toshikazu Morishita, Ichiro Uezono, Tetsuo Sato and Takahisa Tetsuka : Estimation of Protein and Moisture Content of Buckwheat Flour by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy ............................................................................................ 88

Sang-Young Lee, Deog-Hwan Oh, Seung-Shi Ham, Cheol-Ho Park: Effects of Mountain Herb Juice on the Physicochemical Property and Processing of Buckwheat Noodles ........................................................................................................ 95

Xiong Zhang, Yan Chai, Bin Wang, Yong-an Ma, Bai-li Fen and Ji-yun Jaong : A Study on Protein Properties of Buckwheat Seed. I. The Level of Protein, Its Components and Amino Acids in Buckwheat Seed .................................. 100

Mineo Minami, Hiromi Kitabayashi and Akio Ujihara : Sample Preparation for Quantitative Determination of Rutin Content in Buckwheat ........................................... 106

Yu Tang and Zhao Gang : A Study on the Flavone Content of Buckwheat ................. 112

Zhuanhua Wang, Zheng Zhang and Lin Rufa : A Study of the Biogical Effect on the Extracts of Tartary Buckwheat Leaf ......................................................... 117
 
 

IV. ALLERGENIC PROPERTIES

Yasuto Kondo, Atsuo Urisu, Reiko Tokuda, Hitoshi Ando, Nobuko Ishida and Toshitaka Yasuda : Identification of IgE-Binding Epitopes of Buckwheat Major Allergen, BW24kDa, with Peptide Mapping ........................................................... 1

Dan Norback, Greta Smedje and Gunilla Wieslander : Adverse Reactions to Food in a Random Sample of Pupils and School Personnel in the Country of Uppsala, Sweden ............................................................................................................. 6

Arun Nail, Taiji Adachi : Characterization of Allergenic Proteins in Common Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench.) ................................................................ 16

Gunilla Wieslander and Dan Norback : Buckwheat Allergy Among Gluten Sensitive Persons in Sweden ............................................................................................ 26
 
 

V. TISSUE CULTURE

Jelena Brkljacic, Vesna Maksimovic, Svetlana Radovic, Jovanka Miljus, Slavica Ninkovic and Ana Savic : Construction and Analysis of cDNA Library from Developing Buckwheat Seed ................................................................................... 1

Jovanka Miljus-Djukic, Slavica Ninkovic, Svetlana Radovic, Vesna Maksimovic and Mirjana Neskovic : The effect of Actinomycin D, Cycloheximide and Tunicamycin on Self- Incompatible Reaction in Buckwheat ........................................ 9

Olga Zabotina, Nadezda Ibragimova, Dina Ayupova and Olga Maletskaya :

Effect of Some Factors on the Intensity of Rhizogenesis in Buckwheat Thin-Cell-Layer Explants ................................................................................................ 18

Galina Suvorova, Nikolai V. Fesenko and Mariya Fesenko : Buckwheat Micropropagation by Means of Meristem Culture ............................................................ 25

Jianping Hao, Yanxi Pei, Yunbo Qu and Chunlei Zheng : Study on Callus Differentation Conditions of Common Buckwheat ........................................................... 32

Jianping Hao, Yanxi Pei, Yunbo Qu and Beiying Xiao : Study on Peroxidase Activity and its Isozymes in Callus Differentiation of Common Buckwheat ...................... 38

Apoloniusz Berbec and Teresa Doroszewska : Effect of Thidiazuron on in vitro Regeneration in Three Buckwheat Cultivars .................................................................... 42

Apoloniusz Berbec and Teresa Doroszewska : Callus Formation and Plant Regeneration in Anther Cultures of Three Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench.) Cultivars .......................................................................................................... 48

Elena Gumerova, Natalya Rumyantseva, Ekaterina Gatina : PECC Formation in Hypocotyl Tissues of Common Buckwheat (Fagopyrum

esculentum Moench.) ...................................................................................................... 53

Mio Nagano, Jotaro Aii, Clayton Campbell and Taiji Adachi : Development of the Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms (AFLP) in Buckwheat ....................... 58

Jotaro Aii, Mio Nagano, Woo Sun Hee, Clayton Campbell and Taiji Adachi : Molecular Marker Linked to the S Locus in Buckwheat ................................... 65

Yuliya Lukina, Natalya Rumyantseva : Callogenesis and Morphogenesis in Culture of Immature Embryos of Various Buckwheat Species ......................................... 72

Alphiya Valieva, Natalya Rumyantseva, Alexander Mukhitov : Alterations in Cell Wall Polysaccharide Composition of Buckwheat Calli with Different Morphogenic Ability ....................................................................................................... 83

Natalya Rumyantseva, Alphiya Valieva, Alexander Mukhitov : The Infruence of Colchicine on Cell Wall Composition of Buckwheat Calli Having Different Morphogenic Ability ...................................................................................................... 88

VI. SPECIES

Qing-Fu Chen : Study of Genus Fagopyrum (Polygonaceae) Resources Native to China .............................................................................................................. 1

Qing-Fu Chen : Wide Hybridization among Fagopyrum (Polygonaceae) Species Native to China ................................................................................................... 18

N. N. Fesenko, A. N. Fesenko and O. Ohnishi : Some Genetics Peculiarities of Reproductive System of Wild Relatives of Common Buckwheat Fagopyrum esculentum Moench. ..................................................................................... 32

I. N. Fesenko and N. N. Fesenko : Study of F₂ Generation of Interspecific Hybrid in Combination ................................................................................................... 36

Koji Tsuji and Ohmi Ohnishi : Phylogenetic Relationships Among Cultivated Landraces and Natural Populations of Tartary Buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum)

Revealed by RAPD Analyses ........................................................................................... 41

Yasuo Yasui, Takanori Ohsako and Ohmi Ohnishi : Evolutionary Process of Fagopyrum Inferred from the Molecular Phylogenetic Analyses .................................. 50

Ohmi Ohnishi : Further Study on Wild Buckwheat Species, Their Distribution and Classification ............................................................................................................ 61

VII. INSECTS, DISEASE AND WEEDS

V. P. Naumkin : Increase of Productivity of Nectar and Yield of Buckwheat via Flower-Nectar Flow Creation ..................................................................................... 1

Wit Chmielewski : Results of Biological Study on Feeding of Dried Fruit Mite Carpoglyphus Lactis (L.) (Acarina: Carpoglyphidae) on Buckwheat Honey .................... 6

Hisayoshi Hayashi : Effects of Leaf and Root Exudates of Common Buckwheat on the Early Growth of Weeds ........................................................................................ 12

Jadwiga Pawlowska and Seweryn Kukula : Chemical Weed Control in Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) and Its Effect on Yield .......................................... 17

Rui Wang and Changan Li : Insect Pollinators and Yield of Common Buckwheat ...................................................................................................................... 25