Center of Plant Developmental Biology at University of California, Berkeley

加州大学伯克利分校的Michael Freeling博士和他的同事将建立一个植物发育生物学生物研究中心。该中心将为两名技术人员和最多五名研究生提供工资和用品，为一个研讨会项目提供资金，并为中心成员在自己的实验室进行的研究提供适度的资金。技术人员将开发新技术并培训其他人使用。个人研究项目将包括研究玉米叶舌的发育、玉米小孢子形成过程中细胞质结构的作用、微生物与植物的相互作用、根的生长、培养细胞的胚胎发生、乙烯对发育的调控以及植物基因调控的其他方面。旅行经费将用于支持学生参加科学会议，并每年邀请大约五名外部发言人就植物发育的各个方面发表演讲。每年的中心静修也在计划中。该中心的设备和技术人员将被安置在目前正在建设的新植物生物学大楼的一个大型实验室里。该中心在规模和目标上都是独一无二的，将强调现代和经典的遗传学和细胞生物学技术的应用，以了解玉米和其他植物中各种特化细胞的发育。这项研究将解决植物系统特有的问题，或者为哪些植物提供了特别有用的实验模型。其中包括对叶子和花粉发育的研究。该中心的一个重要重点将是一个培训项目，该项目将支持研究生的招聘和培训以及一系列研讨会。除了增加我们对植物发育的理解的深度和复杂性外，该中心还应在培养新一代植物研究人员方面发挥重要作用。

Dr. Michael Freeling and his colleagues at the University of California at Berkeley will establish a Biological Research Center for Plant Developmental Biology. The center will provide salaries and supplies for two technicians and up to five graduate students, funds for a seminar program and modest funds for research to be performed in the center members' own laboratories. The technicians will develop new techniques and train others in their use. Individual research programs will include studies of development of the corn leaf ligule, the role of cytoplasmic structure in corn microsporogenesis, microbe-plant interactions, root growth, embryogenesis by cultured cells, the regulation of development by ethylene, and other aspects of plant gene regulation. Travel funds will be used to support attendance at scientific meetings by students and to bring approximately five outside speakers a year to lecture on aspects of plant development. An annual center retreat is also planned. The center's equipment and technical staff will be housed in a single large laboratory in a new Plant Biology Building currently under construction. This center, unique in its size and goals, will emphasize the application of modern and classical techniques of genetics and cell biology to understanding the development of a variety of specialized cells in corn and other plants. The research will address questions which are unique to plant systems, or for which plants provide particularly useful experimental models. Among others, these include the study of the development of the leaf and of pollen. An important focus of the center will be a training program that will support the recruitment and training of graduate students and a seminar series. Besides increasing the depth and sophistication of our understanding of plant development, the center should play an significant role in training a new generation of plant researchers in an area of emerging importance.