CAREER: Chemical Mediation of Interactions Between Parasitic Plants and their Hosts

职业：寄生植物与寄主相互作用的化学调节本项目是一个综合性的研究和教育项目，主要研究菟丝子属寄生植物与寄主之间的相互作用。 该项目的研究部分将探索植物挥发物在寄生植物的寄主定位和寄主选择中的作用，寄主植物对寄生的防御反应，并探索寄生对植物与其他生物（包括病原体，食草动物和天敌）之间后续相互作用的更广泛的生态影响。 该项目的教育部分将拟议的研究纳入教育活动，包括培训本科生，研究生和博士后研究人员，并创建一个实践学习模块，用于科学教育课程，旨在为未来的小学教育工作者向儿童教授生命科学概念做好准备。 这一综合研究和教学计划的更广泛的影响包括更好地了解寄生植物及其宿主之间的生态相互作用，以及培养学生和未来的教育工作者，他们在科学研究方面有第一手的经验。

CAREER: Chemical Mediation of Interactions between Parasitic Plants and their HostsAbstractThis project involves an integrated research and education program centered on the investigation of interactions between parasitic plants in the genus Cuscuta (dodders) and their hosts. The research portion of the project will explore the role of plant volatiles in host-location and host selection by parasitic plants, the defense responses of host plants to parasitism and explore the broader ecological impacts of parasitism for subsequent interactions between plants and other organisms, including pathogens, herbivores and natural enemies. The education portion of the project integrates the proposed research into educational activities including training undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral researchers and the creation of a hands-on learning module for use in a science education course designed to prepare future elementary educators to teach life-science concepts to children. The broader impacts of this integrated research and teaching program include a better understanding of the ecological interactions between parasitic plants and their hosts and the training of students and future educators who have first-hand experience in the conduct of scientific research.