Conference: Signal Perception and Transduction in Higher Plants to be held on July 9-13, 1989 in Toulouse, FRANCE

请求提供资金，以支助将于1989年夏季在法国图卢兹保罗·萨巴蒂埃大学举行的关于高等植物信号感知和转导问题的研究会议，该会议由欧洲植物化学学会组织。第二信使领域目前是植物生物学中增长最快的领域之一。我们的目标是将世界各地植物第二信使领域的研究人员聚集在一起，批判性地讨论植物中的第二信使概念。由于植物是不能移动的，预计它们已经开发出特定的策略，使它们能够抵抗外部环境的突然变化。更好地了解这些工艺是全球工厂改进的主要目标之一。例如，已经非常清楚地表明，多磷肌醇存在于植物中，并在某些发育条件下受到调节。然而，对于植物来说，第二信使的作用仍然有待证实，而且整个第二信使领域肯定非常需要批判性的评估。会议旨在促进与会者之间的互动，以期出现植物第二信使的新范式，以及它们在植物生长和发展中的作用以及在作物改良中的应用。

Funds are requested in support of a research conference for the summer of 1989 on the subject of signal perception and transduction in higher plants to be organized by the Phytochemical Society of Europe and held at the Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. The area of second messengers currently is one of the most rapidly growing areas in plant biology. Our goal is to bring together investigators in the area of plant second messengers worldwide to discuss critically the second messenger concept in plants. Since plants are immobile, it is expected that they have developed specific strategies that allow them to resist sudden changes in their external environment. Better knowledge of these processes is one of the major goals for plant improvement worldwide. For example, polyphosphoinositides have quite clearly been shown to occur in plants and to be modulated under certain developmental conditions. However, a second messenger role remains to be proven for plants and the entire field of second messengers is certainly very much in need of critical evaluation. The conference will be designed to foster interaction among participants with a view toward the emergence of new paradigms for second messengers in plants, and their role in plant growth and development and applications to crop improvement.