U.S.-Venezuela Cooperative Research: Taxonomic and Life History Studies of Venezuelan Ascomycetes

美国-委内瑞拉合作研究：委内瑞拉子囊菌的分类学和生活史研究

• 批准号: 9201616
• 负责人: Richard Hanlin
• 金额: $ 1.88万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-07-15 至 1995-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9201616&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Venezuela; Cooperative; Research; Taxonomic

This U.S.-Venezuela award will support a research collaboration between Professor Richard Hanlin of the University of Georgia and Professor Omar Tortolero of the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Maracay, Venezuela. The purpose of the research is to collect, identify and study Venezuelan ascomycetes, with emphasis on plant pathogenic species. The ascomycetes comprise a major component of the fungal flora in tropical countries. Many of them grow parasitically on plants, and some cause serious diseases of economically important crops. Many of the plant pathogenic ascomycetes in the tropics, however, are poorly understood biologically, and even their exact identification is often uncertain. By combining the expertise of a Venezuelan plant pathologist acquainted with numerous plant diseases caused by tropical ascomycetes, with one of the world's leading ascomycetes researchers, this project will increase our understanding of this important family of fungi.

这项美国-委内瑞拉奖将支持佐治亚大学的理查德·汉林教授和委内瑞拉马拉凯中央大学的奥马尔·托雷西科教授之间的研究合作。这项研究的目的是收集、鉴定和研究委内瑞拉的子囊菌，重点是植物致病物种。子囊菌是热带国家真菌区系的主要组成部分。它们中的许多寄生在植物上，有些会导致重要的经济作物的严重病害。然而，热带地区的许多植物致病子囊菌在生物学上知之甚少，甚至其确切的鉴定也常常是不确定的。通过将一位熟悉热带子囊菌引起的多种植物疾病的委内瑞拉植物病理学家的专业知识与世界领先的子囊菌研究人员之一相结合，该项目将增加我们对这一重要真菌家族的了解。