History and New Developments on the 90th Anniversary of Cytologia: On the Occasion of the Publication of “Dawn of Modern Wheat Genetics”

Abstract

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.

Worldwide Research Trends on Microalgae and Recent Work in Cytologia

“…Cytologia, which was first published in 1929, has published more than 5,800 papers (Kawano 2019). In the early years of this international journal, the first description of algae appeared in 1933.…”