The Fourth International Workshop on Plant Mitochondria, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and The Cornell University Plant Science Center, Ithaca, NY Sept.22-27, 1990

第四届国际植物线粒体研讨会为植物线粒体遗传学、生物化学、生理学和分子生物学领域的研究人员提供了一系列非正式和互动的聚会。该研讨会是该领域众多研究人员互动的唯一论坛。这种形式要求所有的与会者展示一张海报和/或一个简短的演讲，从而最大限度地提高他们的参与度。讲习班的具体目标是为交流思想和现有数据提供非正式的气氛，促进和鼓励建立和继续现有的科学合作；同时举办专题研讨会，从而确定了解线粒体功能和生物发生的关键研究目标。研讨会将在康奈尔大学举行，那里在植物细胞器分子生物学、生物化学和转化方面有活跃的研究。自上次研讨会以来，已经取得了一些重大进展，包括发现植物线粒体中的RNA编辑，线粒体转化和植物线粒体基因组的全序列分析。即将到来的研讨会有望成为迄今为止最具科学刺激性的研讨会，并且已经引起了广泛的兴趣，包括来自15个国家的近100名科学家的询问或接受邀请。

The Fourth International Workshop on Plant Mitochondria continues a series of informal and interactive gatherings for researchers in the fields of plant mitochondrial genetics, biochemistry, physiology and molecular biology. This Workshop is the only forum for a large number of researchers in the field to interact. The format requires that all attendees present either a poster and/or a short talk, thus maximizing their degree of participation. The specific objectives of the Workshop are to provide an informal atmosphere for the exchange of ideas and current data, to facilitate and encourage the establishment and continuation of existing scientific collaborations, and to hold concurrent workshops on specialized topics and thus to identify critical research objectives in the understanding of mitochondrial function and biogenesis. The Workshop will be at Cornell University, where there is active research in plant organelle molecular biology, biochemistry and transformation. Several significant advances have occurred since the last Workshop, including the discovery of RNA editing in plant mitochondria, mitochondrial transformation and the complete sequence analysis of a plant mitochondrial genome. The upcoming Workshop promises to be the most scientifically stimulating to date, and has already attracted widespread interest including inquiries or accepted invitations from nearly 100 scientists from 15 countries.