US-Germany Cooperative Research on Host Specificity in Soybean - Rhizobium Fredii Symbiosis

该奖项支持密苏里大学的研究生Steven Pueppke教授与德国马尔堡菲利普斯大学生物系的Dietrich Werner教授在植物学研究方面的合作。他们正在研究豆科植物大豆与土壤栖息细菌根瘤菌共生关系中的生化信号。这种联系提供了一个模型系统，用于研究来自植物根部的化学信号，这些信号选择性地吸引某些细菌物种，以及来自细菌的返回线索，这些细菌为植物的友好入侵做准备。在这个特殊的共生对（美国方面）和促进或阻止共生的各种植物信号（德国方面）方面的互补专业知识使这成为一个理想的合作伙伴关系，以追求对该系统中化学信号的更好理解。

This award supports Professor Steven Pueppke and a graduate student of the University of Missouri to collaborate in botanical research with Professor Dietrich Werner of the Biology Department of the Phillips University of Marburg, Germany. They are studying biochemical signaling in the symbiotic association between soybean, a leguminous plant, and the soil dwelling bacteria, Rhizobium. This association provides a model system in which to study the chemical signals from the plant root that selectively attract certain bacterial species, as well as the return cues from the bacteria which prepare the plant for friendly invasion. Complementary expertise in this particular symbiotic pair (US side) and in various plant signals that promote or block symbiosis (German side) make this an ideal partnership to pursue improved understanding of the chemical signaling in this system.