1. ISPMB News

   Cis and Trans Pages: 2 - 4

2. Appointments and awards

   Announcement Pages: 5 - 5

3. A rapid and efficient method for the extraction of total DNA from the sweet potato and its related species

   • G. S. Varadarajan
   • C. S. Prakash

   Protocol Pages: 6 - 12

4. Monitoring hairy-root growth by image analysis

   • Graeme D. Coles
   • D. J. Abernethy
   • B. K. Sinclair

   Protocol Pages: 13 - 20

5. Isolation of a sequence common to A- and B-chromosomes of rye (Secale cereale) by microcloning

   • Michael J. Sandery
   • John W. Forster
   • Stephen D. M. Brown

   Protocol Pages: 21 - 30

6. Construction of a representative genomic library from a hexaploid wheat

   • S. A. Filichkin
   • A. P. Tikhonov
   • A. A. Yephremov

   Erratum Pages: 31 - 38

7. Report of Meeting: VIth NATO Advanced Study Institute-Plant Genomes

   • C.A.P.

   Erratum Pages: 38 - 38

8. 8^th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation

   • Peter M. Gresshoff
   • L. Evans Roth
   • Gary Stacey

   Report of Meetings Pages: 39 - 44

9. Third International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology

   Schedule of Events Pages: 45 - 69

10. Meetings

    Schedule of Events Pages: 70 - 77

11. Courses and workshops

    Schedule of Events Pages: 77 - 79