International Conference on Pholoem Transport and Assimilate Compartmentation: Cognac, France; August 19 - 24,1990.

这项提案要求提供资金，帮助支付参加第四次韧皮部运输和同化物分隔问题国际会议的北美科学家的国际旅费和住宿费。会议将于1990年8月19日至24日在法国科涅克举行。科学家们将专注于协调植物(特别是韧皮部)长途运输系统的具体过程，并形成一个从细胞、组织和整个植物层面整合事件的框架。这一系列的最后一次会议在加利福尼亚州的阿西洛玛举行，集中讨论了围绕实验数据解释的争议。从那时起，植物分子生物学的出现为研究韧皮部提供了新的途径，这些方法将在科涅克会议上提出讨论。此外，该计划旨在整合结构、生理和生物物理研究，以加强概念和实验方面的进展。科涅克会议的形式是为了让与会者接触到相关的易位领域。这次会议将是一个真正的“研讨会”，因为该计划包括邀请特别讲座、就预先确定的主题进行正式的小组讨论、就与会者确定的需要研究重点的主题(所谓的问题点)进行小组讨论、审查期间，来自每个国家的国际代表将讨论促进和鼓励在这一重要植物生物学领域的研究努力协调的战略。

This proposal requests funds to help pay international travel and accommodation costs of North American scientists participating in the Fourth International Conference on Phloem Transport and Assimilate Compartmentation. The conference will be held in Cognac, France from August 19 through 24, 1990. Scientists will focus on the specific processes that are involved in orchestrating the development of the long-distance transport system of the plant (the phloem in particular) and form a framework for the integration of events from the cellular, tissue and whole plant level. The last conference in this series, held at Asilomar, California, focussed on the controversies surrounding the interpretation of experimental data. Since then, the emergence of plant molecular biology has provided new avenues by which to study the phloem and these approaches will be presented for discussion at the Cognac meeting. In addition, the program is designed to integrate structural, physiological and biophysical studies in a manner that should potentiate conceptual and experimental advances. The format of the Cognac meeting has been designed to allow those who attend to be exposed to related areas of translocation. The meeting will be a true "workshop" in that the program contains a balance of invited special lectures, formal group discussions on predetermined topics, group discussions on topics identified by conference participants as being in need of research focus (so called trouble spots), review periods during which the international representatives from each country will discuss strategies that will foster and encourage the coordination of research efforts in this important area of plant biology.