International Conference on Pholoem Transport and Assimilate Compartmentation: Cognac, France; August 19 - 24,1990.

这项提案要求提供资金，帮助支付参加第四届韧皮部运输和同化区隔国际会议的北美科学家的国际旅费和住宿费。会议将于1990年8月19日至24日在法国科涅克举行。科学家们将专注于协调植物长距离运输系统（特别是韧皮部）发展的具体过程，并形成一个从细胞、组织和整个植物水平整合事件的框架。这个系列的最后一次会议在加利福尼亚的Asilomar举行，主要讨论了围绕实验数据解释的争议。从那时起，植物分子生物学的出现为研究韧皮部提供了新的途径，这些方法将在干邑会议上进行讨论。此外，该计划旨在整合结构、生理和生物物理研究，以增强概念和实验的进步。干邑会议的形式被设计为允许那些参加会议的人接触到相关的易位区域。会议将是一个真正的“研讨会”，因为该计划包含以下平衡：邀请特别讲座，预先确定的主题的正式小组讨论，与会者确定的需要研究重点的主题（所谓的麻烦点）的小组讨论，在审查期间，每个国家的国际代表将讨论促进和鼓励协调植物生物学这一重要领域的研究努力的战略。

This proposal requests funds to help pay international travel and accommodation costs of North American scientists participating in the Fourth International Conference on Phloem Transport and Assimilate Compartmentation. The conference will be held in Cognac, France from August 19 through 24, 1990. Scientists will focus on the specific processes that are involved in orchestrating the development of the long-distance transport system of the plant (the phloem in particular) and form a framework for the integration of events from the cellular, tissue and whole plant level. The last conference in this series, held at Asilomar, California, focussed on the controversies surrounding the interpretation of experimental data. Since then, the emergence of plant molecular biology has provided new avenues by which to study the phloem and these approaches will be presented for discussion at the Cognac meeting. In addition, the program is designed to integrate structural, physiological and biophysical studies in a manner that should potentiate conceptual and experimental advances. The format of the Cognac meeting has been designed to allow those who attend to be exposed to related areas of translocation. The meeting will be a true "workshop" in that the program contains a balance of invited special lectures, formal group discussions on predetermined topics, group discussions on topics identified by conference participants as being in need of research focus (so called trouble spots), review periods during which the international representatives from each country will discuss strategies that will foster and encourage the coordination of research efforts in this important area of plant biology.