Presidential Young Investigator Award

该总统青年研究者奖旨在支持对调控植物生长发育的细胞和分子机制的理解研究。所采用的具体模型涉及固氮细菌根瘤菌与豆科植物（如苜蓿）根瘤之间的特定相互作用。具体来说，PI将研究根瘤菌在不触发寄主防御机制的情况下入侵植物根瘤的机制，参与根瘤发育的基因，细胞壁结构蛋白参与结节的发育，以及结节发育的遗传程序是如何被编程的。这项研究对我们了解植物生长的细胞和分子机制具有重要意义。

This Presidential Young Investigator award is to support research on understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate plant growth and development. The specific model to be employed involves the specific interaction between the nitroten-fixing bacterium, Rhizobium, and root nodules of legumes such as alfalfa. Specifically the PI will examine the mechanisms by which Rhizobium invades the root nodules of the plant without triggering the host defense mechanism, the genes involved in nodule development, the structural proteins of cell walls involved in nodule development and how the genetic program for nodule development is programmed. This research has fundamental importance to our understanding of cellular and molecular mechanisms of plant growth.