2019 Volume 84 Issue 3 Pages 193-198
This year marks the 90th anniversary of Cytologia. Modern wheat genetics began 16 years prior to the first issue of Cytologia in 1929. Flaksberger’s wheat stocks, which were sent to Minami in October 1913, were used by Sakamura to determine the number of chromosomes in wheat. Flaksberger’s death in prison in September 1942 was a tragedy for the research community. The Russian and Soviet contribution to modern wheat genetics is immeasurable, but its decline during and after the era of Lysenko was pitiful. This is made clear by the number of publications from each country since the first issue of Cytologia. The publication of Cytologia continued during World War II; after the war, the contribution of India, which became independent at that time, was considerable. Recently, India’s contribution has been relativized, and contributions from other Asian countries including Thailand and Japan, the Middle East and South America have increased, and Cytologia has been supported by increasingly diverse countries.
