Travel to the Third International Symposium on Grass Systematics and Evolution, Sydney, Australia, 1998

克拉克DEB-9806584 禾本科植物是经济和生态上极其重要的植物。 这一科不仅包括世界上主要的作物，如小麦、水稻、玉米、大麦、甘蔗和竹子，而且几乎所有的陆地栖息地都有草。 了解不同草群之间的进化关系为许多领域的研究提供了基本框架，包括生物多样性，遗传学，发育，分子生物学和作物改良。 草系统发育工作组（GPWG），由12个草分类学家组成，成立于1996年，分析了一些不同的，最近可用的数据集，包含有关草之间的进化关系的信息。 这项分析的结果，沿着一个更新的分类的禾本科植物的基础上，他们的进化关系，将提交给第三届国际草研讨会将于1998年9月在澳大利亚悉尼举行，与第二届国际会议比较生物学的单子叶植物。 所提供的资金将支持10名美国人的旅行。S.我邀请GPWG的成员，包括初级研究人员和一名研究生，参加这次会议，并介绍和讨论这一合作努力的结果。

Clark DEB-9806584 The grasses are economically and ecologically extremely important plants. Not only does this family include major world crops such as wheat, rice, maize, barley, sugar cane, and bamboo, but the grasses also occur in virtually all terrestrial habitats. An understanding of the evolutionary relationships among the different groups of grasses provides a fundamental framework for research in many fields, including biodiversity, genetics, development, molecular biology, and crop improvement. The Grass Phylogeny Working Group (GPWG), consisting of 12 grass taxonomists, was formed in 1996 to analyze a number of different, recently available data sets that contain information about evolutionary relationships among grasses. The results of this analysis, along with an updated classification of the grass family based on their evolutionary relationships, will be presented at the Third International Grass Symposium to be held in Sydney, Australia, in September, 1998 in conjunction with the Second International Conference on the Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons. The funding provided will support travel by ten of the U. S. members of the GPWG, including junior investigators and a graduate student, to attend this meeting and to present and discuss the results of this collaborative effort.