OPUS: From the Tangled Bank to Genbank: Multi-Scale Approaches to Insect-Plant Interactions

OPUS：从纠结的银行到基因银行：昆虫与植物相互作用的多尺度方法

• 批准号: 0542490
• 负责人: May Berenbaum
• 金额: $ 10.81万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-02-15 至 2009-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0542490&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: OPUS; Tangled; Bank; Genbank; Multi

In this project, two investigators who have collectively devoted more than a half-century to the study of an otherwise unremarkable small brown moth and the noxious weed that is its hostplant will write a scientific "biography" of an ecological interaction. The seemingly ordinary nature of the interaction between parsnip webworms and wild parsnips belies extraordinary complexity; these investigators will showcase, in a book for both specialists and nonspecialists, the complexities of ecological interaction and the value of a multiscale approach for understanding biological systems. The book will cover spatial scales ranging from amino acids in enzymes that metabolize plant toxins in caterpillar guts to hemisphere-level changes in distribution patterns of these species as they are transported out of their native range by human commerce; temporal scales range from millisecond changes in photosynthesis of leaves as they are chewed to evolutionary shifts in plant chemistry over centuries.The broader impact of this project is that it will illustrate the tremendous value of approaching scientific questions at multiple levels. Scientific training has become increasingly specialized even as expansion of knowledge across fields places a premium on broad-based perspectives for 21st century scientific competitiveness. This book can serve as both a useful source of information and as an example of the value of multiscale approaches to interaction ecology. Investigators in the fields of plant chemistry, insect molecular biology, ecology, evolutionary biology, and insect and plant physiology might, by virtue of this example, see connections across different scales in their own studies. Publication of an engaging, well-illustrated book can benefit both researchers and educators and as well benefit society at large by fostering a broader appreciation of multiscale research on such biological interactions as host/pathogen and crop/pest interactions, which can have profound impacts on human health and well-being.

在这个项目中，两位研究人员共同致力于半个多世纪的研究，研究一种不起眼的小棕色飞蛾和作为其寄主的有毒杂草，他们将撰写一本生态相互作用的科学“传记”。欧洲防风草网虫和野生欧洲防风草之间相互作用的看似普通的性质掩盖了非凡的复杂性;这些研究人员将在一本专为专家和非专家编写的书中展示生态相互作用的复杂性以及多尺度方法对理解生物系统的价值。 这本书将涵盖的空间尺度范围从氨基酸的酶，代谢植物毒素在毛虫肠道半球水平的变化，这些物种的分布模式，因为他们被运输出其原生范围的人类商业;时间尺度范围从树叶被咀嚼时光合作用的毫秒级变化到几个世纪以来植物化学的进化变化。该项目的更广泛影响是，将说明在多个层面上处理科学问题的巨大价值。科学培训已经变得越来越专业化，即使跨领域知识的扩展为21世纪的科学竞争力提供了广泛的视角。这本书既可以作为一个有用的信息来源，也可以作为一个例子，说明相互作用生态学的多尺度方法的价值。 植物化学、昆虫分子生物学、生态学、进化生物学、昆虫和植物生理学等领域的研究人员可能会通过这个例子，在他们自己的研究中看到不同尺度之间的联系。 出版一本引人入胜、插图精美的书，可以使研究人员和教育工作者受益，也可以使整个社会受益，因为它可以促进对宿主/病原体和作物/害虫相互作用等生物相互作用的多尺度研究的更广泛的理解，这可能对人类健康和福祉产生深远的影响。