Covers the development of techniques for transforming cereals, the genetic engineering of cereal protein and starch quality, improving barley quality, and the regulation of cereal genetic engineering. The 20 papers comprise the proceedings of a symposium in Sydney, Australia, September 1993. Annotat

If I had to nominate an area of food production in which science has played a major role in addressing product quality to meet market needs I would not pass by the intimate rela- tionship of cereaI chemistry with cereaI plant breeding programs. In Australia, cereaI chemistry and product quality labs ha ve long been associated with wheat and barley breeding programs. Grain quality characteristics have been principal factors determining registration of new cultivars. This has not been without pain in Australia. On the one hand some cultivars with promising yield and agronomic characteristics...