Seventh Annual Penn State Symposium in Plant Physiology: to be held May 1993, University Park, PA

点击翻译按钮获取中文摘要

Award provides partial support for the 7th Annual Pennsylvania State University Plant Physiology Symposium, organized by the Pennsylvania State University Graduate Program in Plant Physiology. The topic for 1993 is "Plant Signals in Interactions with Other Organisms". The symposium brings together 26 papers focusing on the mechanisms and molecules involved in recognizing other organisms (including conspecifics), cuing defensive responses to pathogens, herbivores, and parasitic plants, establishing relationships with microbial symbionts, manipulating floral attractants, and attracting protective arthropods. Spatial scales of these phenomena range from extremely local (e.g., gene regulation) through intermediate (e.g., fungal elicitors) to long- distance (signals amoung plant individuals). The approach is comparative and synthetic. The goals are to produce state-of-the-art reviews of each topic, but provide treatments that permit the evaluation of similarities and differences among various signaling mechanisms so as to put them in suitable functional, ecological, and evolutionary contests. Another goal is to clarify present confusion about the functions of multiple signals, and potential interactions among multiple signals in single systems. Plans are also presented for supporting posters and attendance by graduate student and postdoctoral level scholars. The proceedings will be published by the American Societh of Plant Physiology.