Symposium: "Understanding and Manipulating Plant Responses to Environmental Stress" held on September 15-16, 1991, at Tuskegee, AL.

各种环境条件，包括非生物（风， 温度、水、土壤、光照等）和生物（微生物， 病毒、昆虫、植物和动物）对 植物 在这里，选择了四个环境因素， 字典。 它们包括非生物（水和温度）和生物 （昆虫和植物病害）。 尽管自然的进化 防御机制，特别是粮食和纤维作物，仍然 由于环境压力，每年都遭受严重损失。 最近，科学家们已经学会了操纵植物来克服 其中一些条件是通过新发现的技术， 分子遗传学和生物技术。 这其中的一个重要目标 研讨会将汇集这些领域的专家， 他们的专业知识与植物科学家在主要 历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）。

Various environmental conditions including both abiotic (wind, temperature, water, soil, light, etc.) and biotic (micro-organisms, viruses, insects, plants and animals) exert their influences on plants. Here, four environmental factors have been selected for dicussion. They include abiotic (water and temperature) and biotic (insects and plant diseases). Despite the evolution of natural defense mechanisms, many especially food and fiber crops, still experience serious losses every year due to environmental stress. Recently, scientists have learned to manipulate plants to overcome some of these conditions through newly discovered techniques such as molecular genetics and biotechnology. An important goal of this workshop is to bring together specialists in these fields to share their expertise with the plants scientists at the major Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's).