U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar: Ecological and Physiological Aspects of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Legumes; October 1989;Davis, CA

该奖项将资助由伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳分校的James E.Harper教授和日本东京大学的Kikuo Kumazawa教授联合举办的题为“豆类共生固氮的生态和生理方面”的研讨会。与会者将于1989年10月11日至14日在加州大学戴维斯分校开会，报告关于共生固氮问题的最新研究成果，并继续交流以前通过互访和早期联合研讨会实现的想法。共生固氮在农业中非常重要，因为氮是最常限制植物生长的元素。这次研讨会的参与者将讨论提高豆类作物固氮效率的方法，以及将固氮推广到其他主要粮食作物的方法。与会的两国科学家将从总体互动和正式发表前对研究结果的详细讨论中受益。这次研讨会的结果以及它所推动的研究结果可能会对发展中国家产生重大影响，因为化肥生产和分配系统的局限性可能是限制这些国家作物生产的一个主要因素。

This award will support a seminar, "Ecological and Physiological Aspects of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Legumes," organized jointly by Prof. James E. Harper of the University of Illinois, Urbana, and Prof. Kikuo Kumazawa of the University of Tokyo, Japan. Participants will meet October 11-14, 1989 at the University of California, Davis, to report recent research results on the subject of symbiotic nitrogen fixation, and to continue exchanges of ideas previously effected through exchange visits and earlier joint workshops. Symbiotic Nitrogen fixation is of enormous importance in agriculture, because nitrogen is the element which most often limits plant growth. Participants in this workshop will discuss methods of improving the efficiency of nitrogen fixation in legumes, and of extending nitrogen fixation to other major food crops. Scientists from both countries involved here will benefit from the general interaction and from detailed discussion of research results prior to formal publication. Results of this workshop, and of research stimulated by it, could have major impact on developing countries, because limitations in systems for the manufacture and distribution of fertilizer may be a major factor limiting crop production in those countries.