• Inaugural Address
  • Kainuma, K.
• Welcome Address
  • Miwa, E.
• Welcome Address
  • Fujimaki, H.

Keynote Address

• Role of International Organizations in Global Genetic Resources Management
  • Iwanaga,M.

Technical Reports

Session 1 Exploration and Collections

• Exploration and Collection of Plant Genetic Resources
  • Sakamoto, S.
• Genetic Resources of Crop Plants in South Asia
  • Rana, R. S
• Genetic Resources of Under-utilized Crop Plants in Asia
  • Zhou, M.
• International Cooperation for the Collection of Endangered Plant Genetic Resources
  • Okuno, K.
• Current Topics on Plant Genetic Resources in the Tropics and Subtropics
• Rice in Bangladesh
  • Nasir Uddin, M.
• Genetic Resources of Crop Plants, and Other Important Plant Species in Sri Lanka
  • Ganashan, P .
• Genetic Diversity of Legume Species and Their Utilization in Vietnam
  • Tran, V. L. and Mai, Q. V .
• Local and Introduced Food Legumes in the Sub-tropical Zone on Japan
  • Nakano, H .
• Potential Genetic Resources of Some Tropical Fruits in Thailand
  • Subhadrabandhu, S .

Session 2 Evaluation and Utilization

• Genetic Differentiation of Asian Cultivated Rice as Revealed by RFLP Analysis
  • Kawase, M.
• Evaluation of Diversity of Germplasm in Sweet Potato
  • Takagi, H.
• Variation of Mitochondrial DNA of Potatoes Cultivated in Japan
  • Ishiki, K.
• Landraces and Wild Relatives of Rice as Sources of Useful Genes
  • lkeda,R. Vaughan,D.A. and Kobayashi, N.
• Phylogenetic Differentiation of Vigna Species in Asia
  • Egawa, Y. and Tomooka, N .
• Utilization of Wild Relatives for Mungbean Breeding in Thailand
  • Thavarasook, C., Lairungreang, C., Nakeerak, P. and Watanasit, A.
• Utilization of Yunnan Rice Germplasm Resources in Rice Breeding
  • Jiang, Z.
• Collection and Utilization of Germplasm of Cowpea Resistant to Striga and Alectra
  • Singh, B. B.

Session 3 Conservation

• Networks for Conservation and Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources
  • Riley, K. W.
• Recent Progress in Cryopreservation of Plant Genetic Resources
  • Ishikawa, M.
• Methodologies for in Situ Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources
  • Valkoun, J. and Damania, A. B.
• In vitro Conservation of Vegetatively Propagated Crops
  • Muñoz, C. S .

Session 4 Data Management

• Data Model and Management of Plant Genetic Resources
  • Umehara, M.
• DNA Information and Stock Center in Japan
  • Kitamura, C.
• General Discussion
• Closing Remarks
  • Suzui, T.
• List of Participants
• List of Symposium Organizing Committee