Vol. 21, No.2 Marchi April 1994 NEWSLETTE American Society of Plant Physiologists

Inside This Issue . .. TH RE ESCORE AND TEN- AND LOOKING FORWARD

2 March 25, 1924, is generally considered agronomists, microbiologists, and horti­ Annual Meeting Symposia the official birthday of the American Soci­ cu\:urists, brought together by their com­ ety of Plant Physiologists. As we recog­ mon interest in the living processes of 3 nize and celebrate the sevent:eth year ()f plants. our existence, it is well to reflect on our More to the point, a professional soci­ Headquarters Changes history and how our past bears on our ety creates a separate professional iden­ future. ti :y. People want to belong to organiza­ 4 Until the creation of a separate society, tions that represent them-their profes­ Gantt and Chory Awards/ Sectior plant physiologists had as their profes­ sions, their beliefs, and their interests. rhe News/ other News sional home the Physiological Section of creation of the American Society of Plant the Botanical SOCiety of America, only one PhYSiologists focused on (he specifics of 5 of several disciplinary sections, such as the science and gave control to plant T-lE PLANT CELL 'S Impactl those for geneticists, ecologists, taxono­ physiologists in the business of the disc~­ Annual Meeting News mists, anatomists, and so forth. Scientific pline-annual meetings, publications, etc. sessions were organized under these sec­ The study of the origins of our Society tions at the annual meet::1gs, and efforts invites questions concerning our own fu­ 6 were made to achieve disciplinary balance ture. What form will the discipline of plant Public Affairs: Quatrano Testifiesl on boards and committees. physiology have in the future? Will there Congressional Visits/ Why, then was there a need to form a be segments of our membership that feel FY95 Outlook/ separate society? In the simplest terms, it underrepre-sented? vVhat about our mis­ USDA Added to NIST was believed that a new society would sion? Our goals? better serve the discipline of plant physi­ At the February meeting of the ASPP 11 ology. The science of this discipline had a executive committee, these and other life and identity of ib own: it included Teaching Corner/People botanists, yes, but also biochemists, continued on poge 3 12 Obituaries

13 NSF Items

14 Headquarters Extension Directory

15 Gatherings

23 Jobs

Deadline for the May/June issue of the ASPP Newsletter is April 22, 1994. An all-too-typical view of 1994 ANNUAL MEETING AMERICAN SOCI ETY OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGISTS

PORTLAND, OREGON SATURDAY, JULY 30 - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3

.:. SATURDAY, JULY 30·:· BIOPHYSICAL ADAPTATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS Organizer: Wendy Silk Speakers and ti1'les: M, Canny, Water stress and tension-Is the cohesion theory coming apart?; M, Koehl, Flow. flapping. and photosynthesis of flexible fronds; K, Niklas. Thigmomorphogenesis: Plant developmental responses to mechanical perturbation; R, Sharp. Physiology of root elongation at low water potentials: Advantage of a kinematic approach

.:. SU N DAY. J U LY 31 .:. ISSUES IN PLANT BIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM TOPIC: GENOME MAPPING/SEQUENCING Organizer and presenters to be announced

.:. MONDAY. AUGUST 1·:· JOURNAL EDITOR S' SYMPOSIUM A GENETIC APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING PLANT PHYSIOLOGY Organizer: Brian A. Larkins Speakers and titles: R, Last. Genetic approaches to understanding primary and secondary aromatic biosynthesis in Arabidopsis; R, Sederoff. Genes and proteins in wood formation of loblolly pine; S, Long. Genetic and biochemical studies of the Rhizobiurrriegume symbiosis; R, Davis. Title to be announced

.:. TUESDAY. AUGUST 2·:· MARTIN GIBBS MEDAL SYMPOSIUM MOLECULAR BASIS OF PHYTOHORMONE ACTION Organizer: Chris Somerville, Speakers and titles: J, Ecker, Molecular basis of ethylene action; M, Estelle, Genetic analysis of auxin action in Arabidopsis; E, Grill. Molecular mediators of abscisic acid action; D, Klessig, Mechanism of action of salicylic acid in plant defense

.:. WEDNESDAY, AU GUST 3 ·:· PRESI DE NTS SYMPOS IUM UNRAVELING THE PATHWAY OF SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION Organizer: Russell L, Jones Speakers and titles: B, Staskawicz, Signal transduction events specifying disease resistance in Arabldopsis tha/ianaPseudomonasinteractions; R, Crain, Inositol phosphate: Second messenger in plants and algae; A. Harmon, Protein kinases-Important links in signal transduction chains; S, Assmann, Signal transduction in guard cells MarchiApri11994, Vol. 21, No.2 3 ASPP Officers and Staff continued from page I activity will be made when the commit­ questions concerning the long-range vision tee completes its work. of the Society were discussed. As a result ASPP's leaders recognize the desirabil­ 1993-1994 Officers of these discussions, it was decided to ity of establishing a long-range strategic establish a formal process to develop a plan for the Society. They also recognize President Russell L. Jones (510-642-1486) long-range strategic plan for the Society. the vision and accomplishments of past President-Elrct As a part of this effort, your input is ASPP leaders that have brought uS to James . Siedow (919-684-6573) both welcome and needed. Your comments where we are today: we have adequate ImlltetlitJfc Past Presiden t Ralph S. Qualrano (9\9-962-2098) should be addressed to headquarters to the fiscal reserves, our membership numbers Secretan) attention of the executive director. We are are as strong as ever, the annual meet­ Donald R. Ort (217-333-209 ) particularly interested in knowing what ings are a huge success, and our publica­ Treasurer Mark Jacobs (215-328-8039) services we should provide in the future tions remain the class acts of the profes­ Clrllir, lJoard of Tn/stees and who should benefit from them. sion. The new public affairs effort begun Larry . Vanderhoef (916-752-2067) The various committees of the Society this past year is fast being recognized for Ct,"ir, Publiclltions Co mmittee Stanley Roux (512-471-4238) also will be asked to respond to this plan­ its good work and accomplishments. Elected Members ning process, as will the five regional sec­ This professional association has accom­ Frank C. Greene (706-5-16-3541 ) tions. plished a great deal in its first seventy Elaine M. Tobin (310-825-7700) Kenneth Keegstra (517-353-2270) The planning committee will gather the years of existence, and we are in an excel­ Sectionlll Representatives informa tion obtained from these three lent position to tackle the challenges of ilii.l'L'S icrll sources and propose a set of strategic pri­ the next century. Speaking for the staff, Mary )0 Vesper (513-229-2502) Nortileastem orities to the executive committee. Once we are proud to be a part of the past, but Bernard Rubinstein (4J3-545-2542) these priorities are determined, specific most excited to be a part of the future. Southem Kenneth M. Beam William H. O utlaw Jr. (904-644-4020) action plans will be developed for each of Wasllirlglolt, DC these strategies. A complete report of this Executive Director J. Michael Robinson (301-504-6633) West.m Terri Lomax (503-737-5278) Headquarters Staff Changes The national office of ASPP at its head­ HAV E YOU BLO CKED Headquarters Office quarters in Rockville, Maryland, is fully 15501 Monona Drive staffed for the first time in more than a YOUR CALEN DAR? Rockville, MD 20855-2768 USA year with the hiring of Kimberly Davis. Phon: 301-25i-0560 • Fax: 301-279-2996 Kim was hired as a manuscript clerk to succeed Sharon Kelly, who has been pro­ Execlltive director, Kenneth M. Beam. ext. 15 moted to member services coordinator. (e-mail [email protected]) Kim joins Annette Kessler and Sylvia Admillistralive Staff Braxton in the office that is the pulse of SAVE Director of f;~lilncc arId administration, the publications department-the manu­ Susan K. Chambers, ext. J 1 (e-mi\i1 [email protected] igex.nN) script management office. All the submis­ JULY 30 - AUGUST 3 Accollntm,t, Thomas M. Dushney, xl. 10 sions for both Plant Physiology and THE Member services coordinfl tor, PLANT CELL, 2000 Sharon Y. Kell y, ext. 26 nearly manuscripts per TO ATTEN D TH E Receptiollist, Estella Coley, ext. 22 year, go through that office, in most cases Mail roo m, Marian Osuji, ext. 12 several times. 1994 ASPP ANNUAL P"blic Affilirs Staff Sharon Kelly becomes ASPP's first mem­ P"t,lic affairs director, Brian M. Hyps. ext. 14 ber services coordinator, a newly created MEETING (e-mail [email protected]) position designed to consolidate and co­ PublicatlOIlS Stnff ordinate all membership and subscription P"blications dir etor, )ody Carlson, ext. 17 fulfillment activities. (fax 301-251-8813; Inevitably, with these kinds of changes, (e-mail [email protected]) Mallaging editor, Plant P/,ysiology, we undergo changes in the phone system. Deborah I. Weiner, ex t. 18 In the left column on this page, you'll find PORTLAND, OREGON (e-mail [email protected]) everyone's extension numbers. (Also see Ma"aging editor, THE PLANT CELL, Judith E. GroUman, ext. 19 page 14.) (c-mail [email protected]) There are a lot of new faces around The ASPP NEWSLETTER is distribuh"d to a ll ASPP members 'fiUS and Reviews editor, THE Pl.ANT CELL, ASPP headquarters-and there is a lot of and is published six times annua.lly, in odd-numbered months. Rebecca Chasan, ext. 21 It is edited and prepared by ASPP stf'lff (rom material pro­ (c-mall [email protected]) enthusiasm to serve the needs of the mem­ vided by ASpr members and other IOlen.:sted parties. Copy Prod/lctioll e.litor, Plant PI'ysiology, bers of ASPP and to help promote the deadline is about the fifteenth day of the preceding even-num­ W. Mark Leader, ext. 23 science of plant physiology. If you're ever bered month (q l., December 15 for January / r ebruary publica­ Prodllction editor, THE PLANT CELL, tion). Submit copy by e-mail wheneverpo ~:-. ible ; submit all Catherine A. Balogh, "xt. 16 in the Washington, DC, area, please do other copy by mail, '101 by fax. Contact: Jady Carison, Editor, Mmll/script manager, Annette Kessler, ext. 20 ASPP NEWSLUTER. 15501 Monona Drive, Rockville, MD stop by to say hello and to see your beau­ 2085:;-2768 LSA; e-mail [email protected]; telephone Mallllscript clerk, Kimberly A. Davis, ext. 24 301 -251'{)S60. ex\. 17. Manllscript clerk, Sylvia ). Braxton, ext. 2S tiful headquarters office and grounds. 4 ASPP Newsletter ELISABETH GANTT AND JOANNE CHORY HONORED BY NAS Phytochrome Nomenclature FOR THEIR EXCELLENT SCIENCE The suggested phytochrome nomen­ Two ASPP members, Dr. Elisabeth The NAS Award for Initiatives in Re­ clature that appeared in the September/ Gantt and Dr. Joanne Chory, were recently search, a prize of $15,000, is awarded in a October issue of the ASPP Newsletter selected by the National Academy of Sci­ different field each year to recognize in­ was a first attempt to bring some order ences (NAS) to receive awards in recog­ novative young scientists and to encour­ to this field . All Signatories agreed to nition of the excellence of their research age research likely to lead toward new the nomenclature, but some were and their contributions to science. The two capabilities for human benefit. In 1994, the unaware that their names would be women will accept their owards at a cer­ area in which the prize was given was published. I apologize for this confu­ emony on Apri: 25 in Washington, D.C., plant molecular biology. Joanne Chory, as­ sion. during the ACild2my's 131st annual meet­ sistant professor in the Plant Biology Peter Quail recently proposed a ing. Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Bio­ different nomenclature in a review Beth Gantt, a professor of botany at the logical Studies in San Diego, was selected chapter that is still in press. He is now University of Maryland, will receive the by a committee headed by Oliver !\!elson. attempting to get all Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal and a prize Dr. Chory was cited by the committee for phytochromologists to agree to a of $15,00U. The Smith Medal is awarded "pioneering genetic and molecular ap­ uniform nomenclature, and we applaud for excellence in published research on proaches that have altered our under­ this effort. We will be happy to adopt marine or freshwater algae. Dr. Gantt's standing of how photomorphogenesis :n the standard that the photobiologists citation reads, in part, "for her pioneering plants is controlled by photoreceptor sig­ prefer. We will keep you informed work in elucidating the supramolecular nal transduction pathways." Dr. Chary about further developments. strudture of the light-harvesting com­ joined ASPP in 1992. Since 1992, she has Maarten J. Chrispeels plexes and energy transfer in the photo­ served on the editorial board of Plant Editor-in-Chief, Plant Physiology synthetic apparatus of red and blue-green Physiology as a monitoring editor. algae." Dr. Gantt, who first joined ASPP ASPP extends its warmest congratula­ in 1969, has a long history of service to tions to these two prominent plant scien­ the Society. She was secretary from 1985 tists for their noteworthy achievements. NIST To sponsor Workshop on Air to 1987, president-ell!ct in 1987-1988, and [he Society is proud to claim them as Ultraviolet Metrology president in 1988-1989. She has also served active, involved members. on ASPP committees over the years. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, plans a workshop entitled "Critical Issues ASPP Committees SECTION NEWS in Air Ultraviolet Metrology" to be held Hard at Work May 26 and 27. The air ultraviolet spec­ Washington Area Section trum is from -190-400 nm, and metrol­ Several ASPP committees have met at ogy is the science of measurement. This headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, The 1994 spring meeting of the Wash­ workshop will focus on measurement in­ since the beginning of 1994. The ington Area Section of ASPP will be held strumentation and standards necessary for publications committee conducted its Thursday and Friday, May 12-13, at the absolute measurements of irradiance and midyear meeting on Saturday, January National Arboretum. Thursday'S program radiance, measurement needs for biologi­ 15. The operations subcommittee, an will consist of oral presentations and an cal UV-B effects researchers, and measure­ oversight group that comprises the evening social. A symposium on Plant ment needs for long-term solar UV-B president, president-elect, immediate Cell Signaling in Host-Pathogen Interac­ monitvring. The talks will, as much as past president, and the chair of the tions will be held Friday morning. Speak­ pOSSible, be tutorial in nature and the goal board of trustees, met over the week­ ers for the symposium are: Daniel Klessig, of the workshop is to identify the current end of January 29-30. ASPP's executive Michael Lawton, and Michael Hahn. Fur­ and future needs in this area. For infor­ committee met Saturday, February 26, ther details on the meeting are forthcom­ mation contact: Dr. Ambler Thompson, and concluded a full agenda Jt noon on ing. NIST, Building 220/ A30S, Gaithersburg, Sunday, i:-'ebruary 27, just in time to MD 20899; telephone 301-975-2333, fax make room for the first meeting of the Midwest Section 301-840-8551, e-mail [email protected]. new committee on public affairs. And, most recently, the program committee As was announced earlier, the annual Met Friday and Saturday, MJrch 11 and meeting of the Midwest Section of ASPP Deadline for the 12, to finalize plans for the 1994 annual is set for April 7-9 at the Stewart Center, meeting in Portland, Oregon (July 30- Purd ue University, West Lafayette, Indi­ May I June issue of the August 3), and to begin planning for ana. Contact: Ray Zielinski, Department the 1995 annual meeting that will be of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, ASPP Newsletter held in Charlotte, North Carolina. 1201 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801- is April 22, 1994. 3838, e-mail [email protected]; tele­ phone 217-333-6785; fax 217-244-1336. MarchlApril1994, Vol. 21, No.2 5 THE PLANT CELL's Articles Are Most Frequently Cited REMINDER: AWARD NOMINATIONS DUE APR IL 8 Articles published in THE PLANT CELL November. lSI recently acknowledged continue to be cited more frequently than that the published figure was incorrectly Six A wards To Be Given in Port/and articles published in any other plant sci­ calculated. ence journal worldwide, according to data THE PLANT CELL has been eligible for The members of ASPP wili bestow published in November 1993 in the 1992 an impact factor rating for only the past awards on six colleagues at the awards Journal Citation Report (Institute for Sci­ two years and has achieved the highest ceremony, July 31, at the1994 annual entific Information, Philadelphia). The so­ rating in each of those years. ASPP f:1em­ meeting in Portland, Oregon. called impact factor for THE PLANT CELL bers can be justifiably proud that a Soci­ Awards to be presented at this year's in 1992 was 8.50; the 1991 figure was 8.58. ety publication has attained such influ­ annual meeting this year include: Charles This 1992 figure is higher than that pub­ ence in so short a time. Reid Barnes Life Membership, Corre­ lished in the Journal Citation Report in sponding Membership, The Stephen Hales Prize, Charles F. Kettering Award for Ex­ cellence in Photosynthesis, Dennis Robert Annual Meeting Program Monday, August 1 Hoagland Award, and the Excellence in Takes Shape • Gametophytic self-incompatibility Teaching Award. • Posttranscriptional control of nuclear The call for nominations for this year's gene expression awards, which appeared on page 10 of The 1994 Annual Meeting of the Ameri­ the January IFebruary issue of the ASPP can Society of Plant Physiologists prom­ Tuesday, August 2 Newsletter, may have caused some con­ ises to be an excellent one, both in terms • Phytoremediation: Restoration of the fusion regarding the awarding of Corre­ of expected attendance and scientific con­ environment by plants sponding Membership. Corresponding tent. Portland, Oregon, is a beautiful city, • Taxol Membership will be awarded, and nomi­ hundreds of your colleagues are set to nations for it and the other five awards come to present their most recent research Wednesday, August 3 are encouraged from any member of results, the symposia topiCS are exciting • Structural and functional aspects of ASPP. and timely. In short, everyone should be photosynthesis The procedure for nominating for all making plans now to come to Portland • Ion channels in stomatal guard cells awards is s:mple. Remember to: from Saturday, July 30, through Wednes­ day, August 3. As has been the case for the past sev­ • State the award for which the person The Society's program committee, eral years, the meeting will officially open is being nominated. chaired by ASPP secretary Don Ort, met at 3:00 p.m. on the first day, Saturday, • Provide your name, address, phone at headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, July 30, with the first major symposium, number, and fax number. on March 11 and 12 to organize the ap­ this year organized by Wendy Silk around • Provide the nominee's address, phone proximately 1000 oral presentation and the topic Biophysical Adaptation to Envi­ number, and fax ;1umber. poster abstracts that had been submitted ronmental Stress. by then for the meeting. The only real departure in this year's Then, follow these two steps: On page 2 of this newsletter, you will schedule from that of past years involves find a listing of the five major symposia the annual banquet. To encourage atten­ STEP 1. planned for this year's meeting. Also dance and participation by everyone, this Assemble a nomination package that planned are six mini-symposia, three of dinner dance will be on Tuesday night, includes: which were selected from among propos­ August 2, rather than on the final night, • A typewritten letter of nominatiun als submitted in response to solicitations Wednesday. (three pages or fewer) in which you in the newsletter. The other three mini­ A preliminary schedule of the complete state the nominee's qualifications for symposia will revolve around topics that meeting will appear in the abstract supple­ the award (contributions relevant to emerged as "hot" as the program com­ ment to the May issue of Plant Physiology. the objective of the award and signifi­ mittee organized the abstracts that had The supplement will be mailed to all jour­ cance of those contributions). been submitted for the meeting. Topics of nal subscribers and all Society members • A curriculum vitae of the nominee, the six mini-symposia are: who are not subscribers. including education, positions held, previous honors or awards, past ser­ vice to ASPP and to the profession, and a publications list. • At least three, no more than five, sup­ SEE ANNOUNCEMENT OF porting letters of nomination.

PLANT BlOCH EMISTRY 1994 STEP 2. Submit five complete copies of the nomination package to ASPP Awards, ON PAGE 6 15501 Monona Drive, Rockville, MD 20855, by the Aprij 8 deadline. 6 ASPP Newsletter

Electronic Discussion Group APPLICATIONS SOUGHT FOR NRC renewable to a maximum of three years; for Plant and Fungal Cell Wall ASSOCIATESHIPS senior applicants who have held the doc­ Research Seeks Participants torate at least five years may request a The National Research Council an­ shorter period. Annual stipends for re­ An electronic discussion group for nounces the 1994 resident, cooperative, cent Ph.D.s for the 1994 program year use by anyone interested in cell wall and postdoctoral research associateship range from $30,000 to $45,500 depending research has been established on a programs to be conducted on behalf of upon the sponsoring laboratory, and will listserv server at North Dakota State federal agencies or research institutions be appropriately higher for senior associ­ University. whose 140 participating research labora­ ates. The scope of this discussion group tories are located throughout the United Financial support is provided for allow­ will be all aspects of research into the States. The programs provide opportuni­ able relocation expenses and for limited biology of plant and fungal cell walls ties for Ph. D. scientists and engineers of professional travel during duration of the including: structure; polysaccharides, unusual promise and ability to perform award. The host laboratory provides the proteins, and other components; research on problems largely of their own associate with programmatic assistance synthesis; expansion; and regulation. choosing yet compatible with the research including facilities, support services, nec­ Requests for help on specific topics, interests of the sponsoring laboratory. essary equipment, and travel necessary requests for samples or standards, and Initiated in 1954, the associateship pro­ for the conduct of the approved research suggestions on laboratory techniques grams have contributed to the career de­ program. may be posted to the list. The list may velopment of over 7000 scientists ranging Applications submitted directly to the also be used for announcements of from recent Ph.D. recipients to distin­ National Research Council are accepted meetings, calls for papers or posters, guished senior scientists. on a continuous basis throughout the posting of abstracts from recent Approximately 350 new full-time year. Those postmarked by April 15, will meetings or recently published papers, associateships will be awarded on a com­ be evaluated in June, and by August 15, or announcements of visits by scientists petitive basis in 1994 for research in: chem­ in October. Awards will be announced in to particular areas. istry; earth and atmospheric sciences; en­ )uly and November followed by awards To subscribe to the list, send an e­ gineering and applied sciences; biological, to alternate candidates later. mail message to: health, and behavioral sciences and bio­ Information on specific research oppor­ technology; mathematics; space and plan­ tunities and participating federal labora­ listserv@V m1.nodak.edu etary sciences; and physics. Most of the tories, as well as application materials, programs are open to both u.s. and non­ may be obtained from Associateship Pro­ Leave the subject iine blank. In the U.s. nationals, and to both recent Ph.D. grams (T) 2094/D2), National Research body of the message, type: degree recipients and senior investigators. Council, 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Awards are made for one or two years, Washington, D.C. 20418; fax 202-334-2759. sub cellwall your-first-name your-last­ name (example, sub cellwall Charles Darwin) PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY 1994 SLATED FOR MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY ~'lease use only the above command. Do not type any other message or text. ASPP-Sponsored Course Will Be Held June 27-July 16 All mailing to the ceJlwall list should be sent to: [email protected]. Please pass this information on to other Plant Biochemistry 1994 will be held on be especially useful for those with back­ interested colleagues. For more informa­ the Michigan State University campus in ground in other areas who wish to be­ tion send e-mail to: East LanSing from June 27 to July 16. come familiar with plant biochemistry. [email protected]. The course, sponsored by ASPP, will We anticipate that financial support Alan White provide in-depth coverage of modem as­ from the NSF, DOE, and USDA will help Department of Botany pects of plant biochemistry by approxi­ defray part of the costs and will allow North Dakota State University mately 25 experts from around the United some portion of student travel expenses Fargo, ND 58105-5517 USA States. The course will follow a format to be covered. We expect that student fees Telephone: 701-237-8380 similar to that used during the previous will be approximately $350, which will Fax: 701-237-7149 two summers for the courses held at the cover part of the cost of food and lodging University of California-San Diego and the for the 20-day course. University of Wisconsin-Madison. This The local organizing committee consists Coming to you soon includes both lectures and discussions. of Kenneth Keegstra, Hans Kende, Lee Participants will be graduate students, McIntosh, and Jan Zeevaart. For further postdoctoral fellows, or senior scientists information contact: Kenneth Keegstra, 1994 Membership Directory who desire an intense survey of plant bio­ MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, chemistry. Participants will be expected Michigan State University, East Lansing, Annual Meeting to have a background in general biochem­ MI 48824, e-mail [email protected]. istry, whereas the course will focus on Registration Materials topics unique to plants. The course should MarchlApril1994, Vol. 21, No.2 7 PUBLIC AFFAIRS QUATRANO TESTIFIES BEFORE CONGRESS IN SUPPORT OF NRICGP FY 95 PROPOSAL ASPP Past President Urges Full $130 Million Funding

ASPP past president Ralph Quatrano and that do not involve chemical treat­ in jeopardy not only because of reduced urged full funding of the $130 million ments. For example, plant parasitic nema­ funding in government programs like the proposed by the president for the National tode worms are among the most devas­ NRICGP, but al~o since industry is Research Initiative Competitive Grants tating pathogens of the world's food downsizing their basic research compo­ Program (NRICGP) for Fiscal Year 1995 crops, causing an estimated damage of nent. To be competitive globally, U.s. ag­ in his Congressional testimony March 1. $77 billion in food and fiber crop losses ricultural companies will more than ever He was testifying before the House Ap­ in 1987," Quatrano said. rely on universities to continue to build propriations Subcommittee on Agricul­ "Scientists at North Carolina State Uni­ an ever-broadening and detailed knowl­ ture, Rural Development, Food and Drug versity, with the support from the edge base for them to tap for applications. Administration, and Related Agencies. NRICGP, have identified that point in the "From personal experience, another Quatrano pointed to the value of the root where nematode worr.1S feed. This valuable component of the NRICGP fund­ knowledge base created by NRICGP­ discovery could lead to a genetically en­ ing is the support it provides for the train­ sponsored research. "This broadly based gineered plant which is resistant to this ing of the next generation of agricultural research effort within the NRlCGP has pest and may overcome many disadvan­ scientists," Quatrano added. greatly increased the breadth and diver­ tages of chemically based pest-control Subcommittee chair Richard Durbin (O­ sity of our understanding of how crop and strategies. Plants of this type will have IL) responded that he is and will continue other plants function and how they inter­ advantages both in productivity and for to be a strong supporter of agricultural act with the environment. This knowledge the environment. This work, initially sup­ research. He said he is aware of damage base has been the source of information ported by the NRICGP, now has indus­ caused by nematodes and the need for re­ from which solutions to practical prob­ trial support from companies such as search to counter, for example, insect lems arise. Basic biological knowledge of Hybritech Seed, RJR Nabisco, and blight. plants as well as plaM-pest interactions Monsanto." "Unfortunately, we sometimes have in can, for instance, lead to crop protection Quatrano noted that further develop­ Congress the equivalent of a flat earth strategies, ones that are biologically based ment of the necessary knowledge base is society [in funding agricultural research)," Durbin said. Rep. Joe Skeen (R-NM), the ranking minority member of the subcommittee, credited Quatrano as an example of some­ one helping to keep the nation's agricul­ tural sector productive. "The thing that keeps us in the ball game is what you do in research," Skeen said.

ASPP Leaders Make Congressional Visits in District Offices

Many More ASPP Members Send Letters Supporting Research Funding

Several ASPP leaders met with staff in CongreSSional offices in February as many other ASPP members wrote letters sup­ Ralph S. Quatrano. past president of ASPP (1992-1993) and chair of the new committee porting adequate funding for the National on public affairs. testifies before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture. Research Initiative Competitive Grants Rural Development. Food and Drug Administration. ond Related Agencies. March 1. Program (NRICGP). ASPP President 1994. Quatrano was representing ASPP in urging the committee to fund the full S130 million requested by the Clinton Administration for NRICGP in FY 95. continued on page 8 8 ASPP Newsletter conllnued from page 7 Rep. Price's district could lead to devel­ prevailed in conference. The president Russell jones met Hadley Roff, head of opment of peach trees resistant to worm­ signed the bill, which includes more than Sen. lJianne Feinstein's (D-CA) northern rela ted diseases. Price encouraged the $105.4 million for FY 94 for the NRICGP, Ca:ifornia office. Jones provided informa­ ASPP members to testify at a House of into law on February 12. tion that showed that California is the Representatives Appropriations Hearing During the consideration of the rescis­ leading recipient of NRICGP funds in the in March that would cover agricultural sion in the Senate, staff in some Senate nation, receiving $11.6 million in Fiscal research funding. Quatrano noted that offices discussed offering an amendment Year 1992 and $9.6 million in Fiscal Year AS !'P was scheduled to testify at that which would have saved NRICGP fund­ 1993. Jones also explained the importance hearing (see related story on page 7). ing from a rescission. Michael Fernandez, of biotechnology as a tool for needed Although there is sometimes the im­ a former ASPP Congressional Fellow who advancements in the plant sciences. pression that individuals must travel to is now a professional staff member o ~ the Feinstein is a member of the Senate Ap­ Washington, D.C., to visit with their Rep­ Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry propriations C:ommittee. Appropriations resentative or Senator on an issue of im­ Committee chaireci by Sen, Patrick Leahy Committee members have jurisdiction portance to them, it can be easier and (D-VT), took a lead in discussing the pros­ over funds for research appropriated to more effective to meet in the local office pect of offering an amendment with sev­ the Department of Agriculture, Depart­ of the member of Congress. Jones, Siedow, eral other Senate staffs. Sen. Leahy, who ment of Energy, National Science Foun­ and Quatrano all scheduled meetings in is also a member of the Senate Appro­ dation, and other agencies. nearby, loca I Congressional offices. priatioI's Committee, is a supporter of ASPP president-elect James Siedow and Supplementary briefing materials were adequate funding for NRICGP. Among past president Ralph Quatrano met with provided by ASPP headquarters for the those who showed interest in an amend­ Rep. David Price (D-NC) to express ap­ visits. ASPP members are encouraged to ment were Sen. Tom Daschle's (D-SD) and preciation for his past support of agricul­ meet and develop working relationships Sen. Russ Feingold's (D-WI) offices. The tural research as a member of the House with their members of Congress. This is small total dollar amount of the rescis­ Appropriations Committee. Price ex­ an important element in bringing home sion and the suddenness of its movement pressed interest in North Carolina's por­ the relevance of plant science research at through the Senate led to the rescission ti on of the NRICGP budget in his meet­ the local, constituent level. Individuals in passing without a biocking amendment ing with Siedow and Quatrano. North many other career disciplines are often being offered. However, Senate offices Carolina has received as much as 3.5 per­ very active in this type of constituent ac­ which discussed the prospect of an cent of the total NRICGP annual budget tivity. Please contact Brian Hyps in the amendment cited the need for support of and is one of the leaders in the nation in ASPP Public Affairs office at 301-251-0560, NRICGP funding in FY 95. receipt of NRICGP funds. Siedow and ext. 14, for assistance in setting up a visit ASrp member Jonathan Cumming of Quatrano noted, as an example, how with your member of Cor.gress, Burlington, Vermont, had sent a letter to NRICGP-funded plant science research in Many ASPP members responded to the Sen. Leahy on December 16 on the im­ need for constituent letters supporting the portance of NRICGP funding to the na­ FY 94 appropriation for the NRICGP, At tion and the state. ASP~ staff had also least 17 copies of these letters were for­ discussed concerns with the NRICGP re­ warded to ASPP headquarters. In addi­ scission with Sen. Leahy's and Sen. tion to sending letters to his senators, Daschle's staffs. Bernie Rubinstein also notified 47 mem­ The rescission of $6.7 million for the bers of the Plant Biology Consortium at NRICGP pOints up some of the vulner­ the University of Massachusetts and the abilities of NRICGP funding, which can five-college community that he recently be targeted by special interests that try to formed. steer the NRICGP funds to special grants. ASPP staff followed up with meetings ASPP members who contacted their mem­ with some of the Congressional offices of bers of Congress on this took an active Senate Appropriations Committee mem­ lead in supporting the competitively bers considering the proposed NRICGP awarded grant program. They presented rescission of $7 million that the House of their members of Congress reasons to Representatives had passed earlier. The support the NRICGP that they otherwise rescission would have lowered the appro­ may not have heard. With constriction in priation for NRICGP for FY 94 to $105 federal spending, proposed NRICGP million. There was some concern that, funding will continue to be targeted by because the Sentate earlier approved a interests seeking special grants, $102 million appropriation for NRICGP The active participation of ASPP mem­ before compromising with the House at bers in the education process of Congress Rep. David Price (D-NC), of the House $112 million, the rescission by the Senate on the importance of the competitive Approprio1ions Commi11ee. Jim Siedow might be larger than the House's $7 mil­ grants program will be needed to help and Rolph Quatrano, Price's constituent. lion. The rescission ultimately approved prevent large reductions in the FY 95 met with Price in his North Carolina office to thank him for his support of agricultural by the Senate was $6,729,000, providing appropriation for NRICGP, which now research and to urge him to continue to $271,000 more to the NRICGP than the stands at $130 million in President support plant science research. House-passed version. The Senate figure Clinton's proposal, MarchlApril1994, Vol. 21, No.2 9 FEDERAL FY 95 BUDGET NEWS The Clinton administratiun is seeking a Integrative Biology and Neuroscience; 11.4 ral research programs and enhanced de­ six percent increase in funding for the percent for Environmental Biology and 9.5 livery of new technology in partnership National Science Foundation to $3.2 bil­ percent for Biologicallnstrumentation and with the states. The administration also lion, a $182.2 million increase over the Resources. ASPP and three other CNSF said that a closer organizational relation­ 1994 budget of $3.02 billion. The members met with Mary Clutter, assis­ ship of the Economic Research Service and administration's budget proposal for Fis­ tant director for the Directorate for Bio­ the National Agricultural Statistics Service cal Year 1995 includes projected savings logical Sciences, on February 8 concern­ with the research agencies will improve from a proposed departmental reorgani­ ing the budget. research administration and management. zation which reduces funds for the U.s. The highest priority within the BIO For Fiscal Year 1995, Federal Agricul­ Department of Agriculture. The activity is ~o ensure the vitality of the tural Research programs would receive administration's reorganization proposal biological sciences in U.s. colleges and $708.6 million. Partnership Research and as it affects research and education within universities, especially in those areas Academic programs would receive $421.4 USDA calls for spending $1.6 billion for where NSF has major responsibility. NSF million. Partnership Education Programs the proposed Agricultural Research and is the nation's principal supporter of fun­ would receive $432.7 million. The Na­ Education Service (ARES). CanceHation of damental academic research in tional Agricultural Library would receive the superconducting super collider and biodiversity, environmental biology, and $19.7 million. Research facility construc­ decreased spending for national security plant biology, providing over 95, 75, and tion would receive $25.7 miilion. The pro­ contribute to a three percent reduction in 50 percent, respectively, of the support in posal for the National Research Initiative the president's FY 95 budget proposal for these areas. Competitive Grants Program (NRlCCP) the Department of Energy from the FY The Arabidopsis genome research project is at $130 million for FY 95-an increase 1994 budget of just under $19 billion to continues as a ten-year multinational ini­ of nearly $25 million, or 23 percent, over the FY 95 proposal that exceeds $18.4 bil­ tiative organized by BIO in 1991. In the FY 94 spending. lion. The super collider cancellation had United States, it is a coordinated effort of Federal Agricultural Research is defined the most direct impact on DOE's Science four agencies including the Department as research conducted at over 120 labs and Technology budget which decreased of Agriculture, Department of Energy, staffed with federal scientists and techni­ by 14 percent to $2.Y b:!lion. National Institutes of Health, and NSF as cians. Partnership Research and Academic the lead agency. Programs will receive funding for research Six-percent Increase Sought in Additional research in biotechnology conducted in partnership with the land NSF FY 95 Budget supported by BIO includes the Center for grant universities and through competi­ Molecular Biotechnology and the inter­ tive grants awarded to the most meritori­ NSF director Neal Lane said the six agency Plant Science Initiative, in collabo­ ous projects. Partners Education Programs percent increase for NSF reflects the ration with USDA and DOE. Ongoing will receive funds for extension education admi..'1istration's priority "to make an in­ activities in biotechnology include support conducted through state partners to serve vestment in the nation's science and tech­ for research in five priority areas: envi­ the needs of farmers, ranchers, consum­ nology capabi~ities, an investment which ronmental biotechnology, bioprocessing, ers, and the population generally. Plant is critical to our future wealth and well­ ~ionetworks , plant biotechnology and science would receive $248.7 million in being." marine biotechnology. Research proposed the 1995 budget-up apprOXimately $1 While the agency's budget is about four in biotechnology totals $120.61 million in million from 1994. percent of the total federal investment in FY 1995, an increase of $44.5 million. One of the key areas listed as a target research and development, NSF supports for refocused funds by the USDA budget nearly 50 percent of all basic research at President Proposes S1.6 Billion for documents is the development of alterna­ academic institutions when biomedical USDA Research in FY 95; 23% tive pest control technologies that will research sLlpport is excluded. Lane ex­ Increase Proposed for NRICGP enable producers to reduce the use of plained the budget proposal in a meeting pesticides. A $10 million increase is pro­ with ASPP staff and other members of The administration assumes in its bud­ posed to develop biological pest controls the Coalition for National Science Fund­ get proposal for USDA that Congress, in and to develop and test on a large scale ing (CNSF) on February 15. separate legi:;lation, will pass the plan to improved integrated pest management He noted that $2.34 billion, an increase reorganize and create the Agricultural strategies. of $180 million or 8.3 percent, is proposed Research and Education Service. ARES In addition to headquarters level con­ for NSF's activities in the research and would be created by combining the pro­ solidations, the budget calls for stream­ related account. grams of the Agricultural Research Ser­ lining field operations by eliminating The FY 1995 budget request for the vice, the Cooperative State Research Ser­ some 19 "lower priority laboratories" and Biological Sciences Activity (BIO) is vice, the Extension Service, and the Na­ consolidating administrative funcLons. $313.94 million, an increase of $25.16 mil­ tional Agricultural Library. "Labs to be closed are those that are not lion, or 8.7 percent, over the FY 1994 The administration said that a full inte­ conducting high priority research and those where facilities are significantly amount of $288.78 million. The proposed gration of program planning and admin­ increases are at 7 percent for Molecular istrative functions will lead to improved outmoded and programs can be relocated and Cellular Biosciences; 7.5 percent for coordination of intramural and extramu- continued on page 10 10 ASPP Newsletter continued from page 9 USDA Added to National Science and Technology to other existing facilities," according to USDA. Council with ASPP Support

FY 1995 Proposed Budget at In response to a letter from ASPP in have had to pay, if, for example, science $26 Million for Energy Biosciences January, the White House informed ASPP and technology had halted at 1950 lev­ in a letter this month that it has aded the els." Secretary of Agriculture as a member of ASPP noted that in the plant sciences, DOE's Basic Energy Sciences (BES) pro­ the National Science and Technology USDA works closely with the Department gram provides the foundation for new Council (NSTC). USDA wa~ not originally of Energy, National Science Foundation, technologies and improvements to exist­ represented on the Council. Following his and other federal offices to support the ing technologies that relate to Department efforts on his own behalf, USDA Secre­ most effective research for the nation. goals. DOE noted that BES-sponsored tary Mike Espy, who received the sup­ "This coordination of research would be research provides results that become an port of ASPP and others, was added to enhanced by including the Department of integral part of the information base which the Council. Agriculture as a member of the Council," underpins the nation's energy technolo­ When the Council was first formed, it ASPP said. gies and strengthens the nation's science was noted that it brought together the ASPP staff and other members of and engineering foundation by training heads of Commerce, Defense, Energy, CoFARM recently met with OSTP officials future scientists. DOE said a strong U.s. Health and Human Services, State, Inte­ and discussed the activities of the Coun­ basic energy research program advances rior, National Aeronautics and Space cil. USDA is expected to have an active national goals such as improved environ­ Administration, National Science Founda­ role on the Council. M. R. C. Greenwood, mental quality, better health and quality tion, Office of Management and Budget, OSTP associate director for science, noted of life, economic competitiveness through Environmental Protection Agency, the that R. Dean Plowman is serving on Coun­ the transfer of information and technol­ national security adviser, and assistants cil committees as USDA acting assistant ogy, and enhanced energy self-sufficiency to the president for economic and domes­ secretary for science and education. and national security. tic policy with the Office of Science and Issues rela ted to biotechnology are BES is grouped into the six major areas Technology Policy (OSTP), the president, among the subject areas before the Coun­ of research with FY 1995 funding levels and the vice president. ASPP said the cil. ASPP staff discussed problems related proposed at $26 million for energy bio­ establishment of the Council can greatly to the reticence of segments of the public sciences; $274.2 million for materials sci­ facilitate the effective coordination and in accepting some foods developed by ences; $162 million for chemical sciences; development of federal science and tech­ means of biotechnology. Cathy Woteki, $109.4 million for applied mathematical nology policy. OSTP senior policy analyst, said there will sciences; and $36.8 million for engineer­ "One of the strengths of the Council is be opportunities to deal with issues re­ ing and geosciences and $11.1 million for its breadth of membership of key federal lated to biotechnology within the Coun­ advanced energy projects. offices associated wi th research. The cil. She said formation of committees The President's FY 1995 budget request Council would be strengthened further within the Council is at an early stage. for DOE places an emphaSiS on strength­ with the membership of the Secretary of ASPP staff also discussed with Dr. Green­ ening the nation's economic competitive­ Agriculture," ASPP said. "Today, Ameri­ wood recent initiatives by ASPP to be­ ness. The Department's competitiveness cans benefit from a Department of Agri­ come more active if' relations with Con­ initiatives focus on leveraging the vast culture that supports a significant portion gress and efforts directed at appropria­ scientific and technological resources of of the highest quality agricultural research tions committees to support funding lev­ the Department and the national labora­ in the world. This investment has been els in the President's research budget. tories in partnership with industry and essential to making America's agriculture At the time that the Secretary of Agri­ other federal agencies to advance the U.s. a growth industry which generates 17.5 culture was added to the NSTC, President position in the global market. DOE noted percent of the GNP. Technological im­ Clinton also added the Secretary of La­ that it affirmed a year earlier that the provements have lowered food and fiber bor, Secretary of Transportation, Secretary Department has changed its priorities. costs for Americans by nearly two-and-a­ of Education, and the chair of the Council DOE has shifted research and develop­ half times the dollar amount they would of Economic Advisers. ment priorities away from nuclear and coal which had previously dominated essentially no plant journals here, and DOE efforts and shifted the focus on ad­ WANTED: Your collection of back we would like to add some plant vancing clean energy supplies, enhanced issues of Plant Physiology, TI-lE PLANT journals to the department's library. energy efficiency, environmental quality, CELL, or any other plant journals. I Won't you please donate your old and the use of the National Laboratones have recently joined the Department of journals to us? Contact Jed W. Fahey at to help create U.s. jobs. Pharmacology and Molecular Science at The Johns Hopkins University School of telephone 410-955-3503, fax 410-550- Medicine, where I am managing the 6818, e-mail AWARD newly formed Brassica Chemoprotection [email protected]; or NOMINAT IONS Laboratory to study the cancer protect­ Johns Hopkins University, School of DU E AT H EADQUART ERS ing effects of isothiocyanates and Medicine, Brassica Chemoprotection related compounds that are found in Laboratory, 406 WBSB, 725 N. Wolfe A PR I L 8 many of the Crucifers. There are Street, Baltimore, MD 21205-2185. MarchlApril1994. Vol. 21, No.2 11 Teaching Corner dergraduate laboratory exercises? Mark . People Brodl at Knox College tapped this re­ Compiled by Susan Singer, Biology source with tremendous success. Alumni Newton's Virginia Pine Nears Department, Carleton College, that were currently enrolled in a gradu­ Perfection in Texas Northfield, MN 55057 , e-mail ate program were invited to serve as con­ [email protected] sultants to develop specific labs related Research done by ASPP member to their research expertise. Through a Ronald Newton, which shows that clones Education Booth grant from the NSF Instrumentation and of the Virginia pine would grow as suc­ August may seem far off, but it's time Laboratory Improvement-Leadership cessfully as seedlings, has received wide­ to start thinking about the Education Projects in Laboratory Development Pro­ spread coverage in the media. ABC World Booth at the ASPP annual meeting. Do gram, new equipment for the laboratories News Tonight, reported on his research. you have a "hands-on" experiment or and consultant fees for the graduate stu­ The report covered Newton's develop­ demonstration that you would like to dents were provided. The labs were well ment of a "perfect Christmas tree." share with fellow educators? Send a short received, the graduate students gained In evaluating the research, Newton con­ proposal to Kathie Fishbeck (Department some real insight into the educational cluded that he still hasn't developed the of Biology, St. Olaf College, Northfield, process, the alumni office was thrilled, and "perfect Christmas tree." He said there can MN 55057) or Susan Singer (Department Mark's model has now been adopted on be even more improvements in spacing of Biology, Carleton College, Northfield, a college-Wide basis. If you want more branches, maintaining a green color, and MN 55057). details, look for Mark and his poster in establishing an ideal needle length. New­ the teaching section in Portland. ton will seek further improvements in the In Search of Fusicoccin tree. The cloning technology being used Holly Gartner at St. Mary's College has Pla nt Biology if) the Introductory by Newton can also be used in transfor­ been trying to obtain fusicoccin for her Biology Course mation for use in improving resistance of teaching lab. She's found that Sigma will Where do plants fit in an introductory the trees to disease and insects. sell only 0.25 mg to any institution in a biology course? For a quick, thought-pro­ The Virginia pine was introduced to the given year. Does anyone know of other voking read, check the November 1993 state of Texas in 1981. The state govern­ sources? Holly can be reached bye-mail issue of BioScience, vol. 43, pp. 673-674. ment and growers in the state provided ([email protected]) or phone As an answer to why students show more early funding for Newton's research. The (301-862-0204) or at Department of Biol­ interest in animal biology than in plant support for the project the past five years ogy, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. biology, the article suggests, with fasci­ produced early results with commercial Mary's City, MD 20686. Thanks! nating examples, that teachers may be application. The clones developed by presenting plant biology in ways that Newton are already available for sale to Innovative Curriculum Ideas make it less appealing than animal biol­ the public at three locations in Texas. The If you are looking for new learning ogy. U.S. Department of Agriculture's National tools, ideas, etc., the BioQUEST Curricu­ Research Initiative Competitive Grants lum Consortium may be of interest to you. More Thoughts on Where to Publish Program recently provided grant support Started at Beloit College in 1986, Teaching Papers for the pine cloning and transformation BioQUEST is now a community of more Looking for places to publish teaching research. than 2,500 biologists, science education articles? In response to a plea for sugges­ The research done by Newton received researchers, historians and philosophers tions in the December "Teaching Corner," other news media coverage in the U.s. in of biology, computer scientists, cognitive David Hershey has offered the following addition to the ABC network news report psychologists, curriculum theorists, and suggestions: American Biology Teacher; and was also reported internationally, others interested in using research expe­ BioScience, ed uca tion section; Journal of including reports in Sweden and Hondu­ riences to enhance biology learning. Their Biological Education (British, not generally ras. A plant phYSiologist, Newton is in available in the United States); Journal of philosophy stresses problem posing, prob­ the Department of Forest Science at Texas lem solving, and persuasion of peers. The College Science Teaching, which has a Fa­ A&M University. focus is on both post-secondary and K-12 vorite Demonstration section; The Scien ce Teacher (aimed at high school teachers); biology education. There is a BioQUEST Daie Is President-Elect of AWlS library at the University of Maryland Science Scope (aimed at middle school which makes peer-reviewed software and teachers); Science and Children (aimed at ASPP member Jaleh Daie, recently other scholarly work available and is up­ elementary school teachers); Science Ac­ elected to be preSident-elect of the Asso­ dated yearly. In addition, the consortium tivities (aimed at hands-on activities); Caro­ ciation for Women in Science, wi]; serve conducts workshops and offers a news­ lina Tips; and the Journal of Natural Re­ as president of that organization from letter. Sound interesting? Contact John sources and Life Sciences Education (pub­ 1996 until 2000. Dr. Daie is professor of Jungck or Patti Soderberg at the Depart­ lished by the American Society of botany at the University of Wisconsin­ ment of Biology, Beloit College, 700 Col­ Agronomy with page charges and limited Madison and senior science advisor to the lege St. Beloit, WI 53511 (telephone 608- circulation). HortScience and HortTechnol­ senior vice president for academic affairs 363-2743, e-mail [email protected]). ogy both publish teaching articles but have of the University of Wisconsin System. They can send information. page charges. David also reports having Have you considered involving gradu­ success publishing in the Journal of Plant ate students in the development of un- Nutrition. 12 ASPP Newsletter Obituaries the award in 1980. He became a Fellow of duced by Phyllosticta maydis, which exhib­ the American Phytopathology Society in its the same host selectivity as B. maydis. 1973, a member of the National Academy PM-toxin was shown to be very similar Robert W. Hoshaw of Sciences in 1984, and a member of the to the T-toxin family with regard to struc­ ASPP headquarters was recently in­ American Academy of Arts and Sciences ture and biological activity. With Y. formed of the death of member Robert in 1986. Suzuki, numerous analogs of PM- and T­ W. Hoshaw of the University of Arizona. Mike Daly's early research interest con­ toxin were synthesized and evaluated for Dr. Hoshaw had been a member of ASPP cerned the nature of a host plant's resis­ biological activity to determine important since 1950. tance or, as he preferred to consider it, structure-activity relationships. susceptibility to an invading pathogen. He With varying degrees of collaboration, S. L. Ranson initially investigated biochemical and Daly contributed to the work of other Professor S. L. Ranson, an emeritus physiological changes induced by rust laboratories in determining the structures member of ASPP who first joined in 1961, infection of plants, including changes in of host selective toxins produced by died in England, his home, on November respiration, carbon metabolism, photosyn­ Cochliobolus (Helminthosporium) carbonum 1, 1993. thesis, transpiration, and hormones. (L. D . Dunkle and H . Knoche), Daly's most notable work was in the Helminthosporium sacchari and Cochliobolus Joseph Michael Daly area of host-specific pathotoxins, toxins (Helminthosporium) vicloriae (Y . Macko); Joseph Michael Daly died August 18, produced by pathogenic fungi that cause and some of the Alternaria (Y. Kono) spe­ 1993, in Lincoln, Nebraska. He had been the same symptoms and show the same cies. a long-time member of the American So­ species and cultivar specificity as the Mi.ke had especially strong relationships ciety of Plant Physiologists and served as pathogen itself Thus, in these diseases with Japanese colleagues and was instru­ an associate editor of Plant Physiology from susceptibility appears to be determined by mental in organizing several U.5.- Japan 1981 to 1986. the host's sensitivity to a toxin. Cooperative Science Seminars alterna­ Mike Daly was born April 9, 1922, in In response to the devastating south­ tively held in both countries. Hoboken, New Jersey, and worked his ern com leaf blight epidemic in the U. S. He loved teaching-his students sim­ way through college, obtaining a B. S. in during the early 1970s, caused by Bipolaris ply understood they had to be class par­ 1944 from Rhode Island College, now (Helminthosporium) maydis, race T, Mike ticipants, practice critical thinking, and University of Rhode Island. One of his led the task of determining the structure attempt to fi eld his penetrating questions. professors at Rhode Island, Dr. Frank of T- toxin, which is produced by that Many were the classes, seminars, or pro­ Howard, stimulated his interest in plants pa thogen and specifically affects maize fessional meetings that retired to a pub and directed him towards a career in plant having Texas male-cytoplasm. At that where continued discussion might become pathology. Mike received his M. S. de­ time, a number of host-specific toxins exothermic, yet be resolved amicably. gree in plant pathology from the Univer­ were known but their chemical structures Mike had a keen analytical mind that sity of Minnesota in 1947 and his Ph. D. were unknown. Daly's work on T-toxin exposed poorly constructed hypotheses, degree in plant physiology from the same was conducted in collaboration with me, unsubstantiated claims, and frivolous instih.:tion in 1952. Carl Tipton, and Y. Kono. By the time the ideas, and he applied the same high in­ In 1952, Mike was appointed assistant first reports on the structure of T-toxin vestigative standards to his own work as professor of botany at Notre Dame Uni­ were released in 1979, the structure of well as to the work of others. His intense versity. In 1955, he moved to the Depart­ AM-toxin, another host specific toxin that dedication and enthusiasm for science, ment of Plant Pathology at the University affects certain apple cultivars, had been coupled with his scientific accomplish­ of Nebraska. He served as chair of the reported, making T-toxin the second host ments and a delightful sense of humor, department from 1962 to 1%4, then trans­ selective toxin to be structurally identi­ made him an honored and respected ferred to the Department of Biochemistry fied. leader in his profession, university, and and utrition. He was awarded one of Mike's laboratory also studied the department. When a stroke forced retire­ the first Regents Professorships at the physiological effects of the toxin, and ment, a still unfilled void was created in University of Nebraska by being named served as the "world's supplier" of T­ the Deparlment of Biochemistry, specifi­ C. Petrus Peterson Professor of Biochem­ toxin, most of which was isolated by cally, and in the plant sciences in general. istry in 1966, a Ule he held until his dis­ Daly's own hands. Indeed, Daly's T-toxin Mike, a devoted family man, received ability retirement in J986. Mike was in­ is still being distributed and has been the exemplary support from his family, par­ strumental ir the reorganization of the source for work led by others concerning ticularly from his wife, Cecilia, daughters, traditional biological science departments the pathotoxin's mechanism of uncou­ Katherine O'Rourke, Martha, Cecilia, and at the University of Nebraska into the pling mitochondria isolated from maize Constance Daly, Anne Schmidt, and Me­ School of Biological Sciences and served carrying Texas male-cytoplasm. lissa Hoy, sons Stephen and Timothy, and as the School's initial director on an in­ Daly's laboratory, again with the col­ four grandchildren. terim basis from 1973 to 1974. laboration of Y. Kono and with contribu­ The University of Nebraska established tions by S. Danko, determined the chemi­ Herman Knoche its annual Outstanding Research and Cre­ cal identities of the PM-toxin family pro- University of Nebraska ativity Awards in 1978, and Mike received MarchiApril1994, Vol. 21, No.2 13 NASA/NSF Solicit Proposals for Joint Program in Plant Biology

Proposals Due April 29 , 1994 competitive basis independent of this als should include a plan for training announcement. graduate and postdoctoral students, The National Aeronautics and Space A unique aspect of the program is which is considered an integral part of Administration (NASA) and the that after the selection of awards, all the project. National Science Foundation (NSF) principal investigators will become part All institutions eligible to receive announce their intent to support a of a collaborative network whose support from NASA's Division of Life competitive awards program in Fiscal activities will be coordinated by a and Biomedical Sciences and Applica­ Year 1994 for research in the areas of designated coordinator selected by tions or the NSF Directorate for environmental signal transduction and NASA/NSF from among principal Biological Sciences may submit propos­ cell differentiation in plants in response investigators of the research awards. als in response to this announcement. to environmental stimuli, especially Under the leadership of the coordina­ Applicants w:ll use the new Grant gravity. Deadline fur submission of tor, network members will be expected Proposal Guide (NSF 94-2) that is proposals for this new program is April to work together to foster active described elsewhere on this page. 29, 1994. research collaboration. For further information or clarifica­ Approximately six awards will be The scope of the projects must be in tion on this program, contact at NASA: made for up to five years in duration, the area of signal transduction and cell Dr. Thora Halstead, Life and Biomedi­ with yearly funding contingent upon differentiation in response to environ­ cal Sciences Division, NASA Headquar­ availability of funds and scientific mental stimuli in plants. Proposals ters / Code ULR, 300 E Street, SW, progress. The expected annual award should address fundamental mecha­ Washington DC 20546; e-mail amount ranges from $100,000 to nisms of how plants perceive their [email protected], $150,000 including both direct and environment and how their growth and telephone 202-358-2148, fax 202-358- indirect costs. Awards are to be used developmental processes are regulated 4168. Contact at NSF: Dr. Machi F. exclusively for ground-based research by environmental stimuli at the molecu­ Dilworth, Division of Integrative and to enhance training in plant lar, cellular, physiological, and/ or Biology and Neuroscience, Directorate science. If research requires a whole plant levels. The two agencies for Biolugical Sciences, Rm 685, Na­ microgravity environment for concept encourage innovative and novel ideas tional Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson verification, it will be considered for and approaches to these long-standing Boulevard, Arlington, V A 22230; e-mail flight opportunities by NASA on a questions in plant biolugy. All propos- [email protected], telephone 703-306- 1422, fax 703-306-0349. NSF Replaces GRESE with Revision Entitled Granl Proposal Guide Important Changes Go into Effect on April 4, 1994 • includes a new section entitled "Con­ formance with Instructiuns for Pro­ In a notice dated January 12, 1994, NSF and its predecessor is the Proposal Forms posal Preparation" that is intended to director Neal Lane announced that NSF Kit that provides a complete package of emphasize consistency in proposal is revising the Grants for Research and forms necessary for submission of unso­ preparation requirements. Education in Science and Engineering licited proposals to NSF. The !·dt will be • limits the project description section (GRESE) (NSF 92-89) and publishing the available as a perforated, pull out section to 15 pages, including text as we.ll as revision as the Grant Proposal Guide in the GPG and in a "stand alone" format visual materials. (GPG) (NSF 94-2). The principal purpose as NSF 94-3. The forms are also available • eliminates appendices. of this revision is to improve the proposal from the Foundation's Science and Tech­ • includes new coverage for cost shar­ preparation, submission, and review pro­ nology Information System (STIS) and ing to clarify NSF policy and require­ cess by standardizing and simplifying proposers are encouraged to submit pro­ ments regarding cost sharing. certain proposal requirements. The revi­ posals electronically. The kit language • modifies the method for indicteing the sion also clarifies some areas where NSF stipulates that forms may be duplicated level of effort devoted by the princi­ requirements and guidelines appear not or reproduced and will be accepted in a pal investigator so that time devoted to have been fuLly understood or followed. variety of media: the forms as contained tu the project must now only be ex­ The GPG will be effective for all pro­ in the GPG or the separate forms kit, pressed in terms of "person-months posals submitted on or after Monday, photocopies of such forms, electronic sub­ devoted to the project." April 4,1994. Proposals submitted prior to mission, etc. Any questions, comments, or sugges­ April 4, 1994, may continue to use forms In other changes, the GPG: tions regarding these changes, the GrG, contained in the GRESE (NSF Publication • improves proposal organization by or NSF proposal and award policies and 92-89) or the forms contained in the new establishing a modified arrangement procedures may be directed to the Policy GPG (NSF 94-2). After April 4, 1994, all for submission of required documen­ Office, Division of Contracts, Policy and other versions of the GRESE and its forms tation. This should help simplify Oversight via electronic mail at should be discarded. The NSF Grant Policy preparation, review, and processing of [email protected], telephone 703-306-1243, Manual will be revised to reflect these proposals as the information by sec­ fax 703-306-0280. changes. tions will be more clearly recognized A major difference between the GPG and identified. 14 ASPP Newsletter ASPP Headquarters Telephone Extension Directory

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Proceedings, 16th Annual Riverside Symposium in Plant Physiology, January 28-30,1993

Volume 10, Current Topics in Plant Physiology: An American Society of Plant Physiologists Series

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Speakers: W. Dawson, D. Baulcombe, F. B. Storm, Director, Gordon Research FUTURE ASPP Ausubel, A. Collmer, G. Turgeon, M. Conferences, University of Rhode Island, ANNUAL MEETING SITES Lawton, 1. Raskin. Ill. Self-incompatibility: P.O. Box 984, West Kingston, RI 02892-0984; Communication between mating partners­ telephone 401 -783-4011, fa x 401-783-7644. Speakers: H. Dickinson, M. Uyenoyama, M. 1994-Portland, Oregon Nasrallah, J. Nasrallah, R Bernatzky, T. May 19-21 Saturday, July 30 through Holtsford, M. Anderson, B. McClure, T-h. Pollen-Pistil Interactions Wednesday, August 3 Kao, C. Franklin. Enrollment limited to 250. 9th Annual Penn State For further registration information, contact: Symposium in Plant Physiology Plant Biochemistry Symposium, 348 HearnE'S University Park, Pennsylvania 1995-Charlotte, North Carolina Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, The symposium will provide a forum for Saturday, July 29 through MO 65211; telephone 314-882-8320, fax 314- assessing our current knowledge of pollen Wednesday, August 2 882-1953. Direct program questions tu tube growth and pollen-pistil interactions. Interdisciplinary Plant Group, telephone 314- Twenty-two talks by ;nternational leaders 882-7796, fax 314-882-5635. will be presented in five sessions: Develop­ 1996-San Antonio, Texas ment of pollen and pistils; Pollen-stigmata Saturday, July 27 through April 26-29 interactions and sporophytic sel f-in compat­ Wednesday, July 31 lant Membrane Biology ibility; Pollen tube growth; Pollen-style The Phytochemical Society of Europe interactions and gametophytic self-incompat­ Lund, Sweden ibility; Fertilization and pollen selection. APRIL Details of this meeting may be obtained Topics include: pollen-specific gene expres­ from Dr. P. Brodelius. Department of Plant sion, molecular and genetic analyses of April 7-9 Biochemistry, Univeristy of Lund, P.O. Box pollen development, gene expression during Annual Meeting 7007, S-22007 Lund, Sweden. megasporogenesis, nature and function of Midwest Section, ASPP the pollen coat, a thorough examination of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana self-incompatibility, signalling during The meeting will include oral presentations MAY pollination, post-pollination changes in the by undergraduate and graduate students, a pistil, the role of calcium in pollen tube banquet, and a symposium organized by May 1-6 growth, phosphorus transport in pollen Daniel Bush entitled "Hopping and popping Gordon Research Conference tubes, flavonols and pollen germination, in at the plasma membrane." Scheduled Mitochondria and Chloroplasts vitro fertilization, pollen selection techniques, speakers for the symposium dnd their topiCS Volterra, Italy and environmental effects on pollen are: S. Assmann, "Signal transduct ion Chair: Wilhelm Gruissem; vice-chair: performance. Poster presentations are cascades in ion channel regulation (or do Kathleen Newton; co-chair: Cecilia Saccone. solicited and up to 10 travel awards of $300 you believe in the domino effect?)" and M. Topics and discussants: Organellar genome each will be available for student and Sussman, "Snap, crackle, and pop: cell­ structure and evolution: W. Gruissem postdoctoral presenters of posters. For specific expression of the plasma membrane (discussion leader), J. Boynton, F. Foury, K. information contact: Andrew G. Stephenson, H+-ATPase gene isoforms." Contact the Ohyama, C. Saccone, W. Fangman; Replica­ Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania secretary / treasurer, Ray Zielinski, Depart­ tion and expression: F. Foury (discussion State University, University Park, PA, 16802 ment of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, leader), D. Clayton, E. Sbisa, D. Stern, S. USA, fax 814-865-9131, e-mail: 1201 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801-3838; Lerbs; RNA editing and transport: R Hallick [email protected]; or Teh-hui Kao, e-mail r-zielinski®Uiuc.edu; telephone 217- (discussion leader), R. Benne, A. Brennicke, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular 333-6785; fax 217-244-1336. H. Kossel, M. Gray, J. Wei I; Intron splicing Biology, fa x 814-863-9416. and RNA modification, A. Barkan (discus­ April 13-16 sion leader), R Hallick, N. Martin, A. May 22-24 Current Topics in Lambowitz; Regulation of mRNA processing Agricultural Biotechnology and the Plant Biochemi try and Physiology: and stability, A Lambowitz (discussion Public Good The Biology of leader), P. Maliga, R Karwan, W. Gruissem; Sixth Annual Meeting of the National Communication in Plants Organelle mutations in plants, C. Saccone Agricultural Biotechnology Council University of Missouri-Columbia (discussion leader), K. Newton, A. Barkan, Michigan State University, East Lansing This annual symposium is sponsored by C. Fauron, C. Lea ver; Mitochondrial diseases Plenary sessions: Current and next genera­ Interdisciplinary Plant Group and the Food and aging, D. Clayton (disc ussion leadf>r), E. tion agricultural biotechnology products-R Fur 21st Century Program. General topics Shoubridge, A. Harding, E. Schon, Y.-H. T. Fraley, RW. F. Hardy; Biotechnology and include: I. Communication between plants Wei; Import and assembly of organellar the public good-J. Doyle, R J. Cook; and their nonpathogenic associated mi­ proteins, N. Martin (discussion leader), W. Agricultural biotech in developing nations­ crobes-Speakers: E. Nester, D. Ba si le, M. Neupert, G. Schatz, N. Hoogenraad; Nuclear J. Dodds, M. Madkour. Workshops: Setting l.idstrom, J. Turner, J. Germida, S. Hirano, B. control of organelle functions, C. Leaver the agricultural biotechnology agenda-G. McDonald. II. Communication between (discussion leader), ; . Allen, S. Kobayashi, R. Youngberg, S. Offuttt, T. L. Thorburn, P. plan ts and their associated pathogens- Scarpulla, R Herrmann. Contact Dr. Carlyle Donnelly; Biotechnology and the structure of 16 ASPP Newsletter agriculture-D. Kleckner, W. Browne, F. sity of Tennessee, P.O. Box 1071, Knoxville, June 19-24 Buttel, T. Guthrie; Agricultural biotechnulogy TN 37901-1071; telephone 615-974-8841, fax 4th International Congress of and global ~ nterdependence-W. R. Coffman, 615-974-2765. Plant Molecular Biology M. McLaughlin; Environmental stewardship Amsterdam, The Netherlands and agricultural biotechnology-S. S. Batie, J. May 27 The congress will take place in the RAI Clark, R. Harwood, J. DeWitt. Panel: Scientific (Mis)Conduct and International Exhibition and Congress Looking to the future-B. D. Moser, P. B. Social (Ir)Responsibility Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Swan, L. P. Milligan, P. R. Day. For Indjana UniverSity, Bloomington ?Ienary speakers: E. Magnien, M. Bevan, Y. information about the program, contact This one-day conference on research ethics is Minobe, P. Quail, J. Ecker, L. Willmitzer, C. Michael Thomashow, telephone 517-355-2299, intended to foster discussion between Somerville, A. Clarke, F. Ausubel, P. de Wit, fax 517-353-5174; all other questions or to scientists and ethicists and to generate J. Denarie, E. MeyerOWitz, J. Mol, J. Schell. register, contact Eddie Hansen, MSU interest in and ideas about teaching scientific Symposium session titles: Plant genomes; Agricultural Experiment Station, 517-355- responsibility in graduate courses. Keynote Regulation of gene expression; Epigenetics; 0123, fax 517-353-5406. Address: "Scientific (Mis)Conduct and Social Plant development; Signal Transduction in (Ir)ResponsibiJity," R. Chalk, Senior Program plants; Light responses; Proteins; Regulation May 24-31 Officer at the National Academy of Sciences of metabolism; Plant-microbe interactions; Microinjection Techniques in and the Institute of Medicine. Anuther Plant biotechnology; Technique development; Cell Biology address is "Science as a Socially Responsible Applications, public acceptance, environ­ Woods Hole, Massachusetts Community," M. S. Frankel, Directur of the ment, regulation and developing countries. This research-oriented course is intended for Scientific Freedom, Responsibility, and Law Chair of the local organizing committee is graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, Program at the American Association for the Robbert Schilperuort. Contact: Congress and investigators. Limited to 24 students. Advancement of Science. Panel discussion: Secretariat, 4th International Congress of Microinjection techniques have developed to Teaching responsible science; panelists: P. J. Plant Molecular Biology, c/o RAI OBA, a state that permits investigators to bridge Gilmer, Florida State University, and F. P.O. Box 77777, 1070 MS Amsterdam, The the gap between in vivo physiology and in Grinnell, University of Texas Southwestern Netherlands; telephone 31 20 549 1212; fax vitro biochemistry. The combination of Medical School. There is no conference fee, 31 20 646 4469, telex 13499 raico n;. micro injection with analytical light micro­ but preregistration is required. To register, scopic methodologies, electroporation, please send your name, address, phone and June 26-July 1 biolistic methods, electrophysiological and fax numbers, and e-mail address by April 11th International Meeting on Plant Lipids photometric approaches offers an unparal­ 15, 1994, to the Poynter Center, 410 North Paris, France leled view of cellular function and mecha­ Park Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana, 47405; This meeting will be co-chaired by J.-c. nisms of action within the cytoplasm of fax 812-855-3315. If you have questions, call Kader and P. Mazliak. It will be devoted to ;ntact, living cells. This short course, taught 812-855-0261. all as?ects of structure, physiological role, by leading practitioners, will provide an and gene technology of plant lipids. Sessions opportunity to learn lechniques of microin­ will include: fatty acid biosynthesis; jection into a variety of living cells through JUNE membranes: structure and lipid organization lectures, demonstrations, and extensive in chloroplasts and other membranes, polar hands-on laboratory exercises. The student June 4-7 lipid metabolism, lipid transfer; lipid will learn to microinject single cells, 1994 Congre s on peroxidation; oil seed metabolism and including, but not limited to: cultured Cell and Tissue Culture development; isoprenoids; plant lipids and mammalian cells, amphibian oocytes, Regulation of Cell and environment (secondary messengers, defense echinoderm blastomeres, and various plant Tissue Differentiation reactions, herbicides); lipid biotechnology cells. In addition; many of the latest methods Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and genetic engineering. A round table of light microscopy, including the use of Sessions specifically relating to plant science conSidering recent advances on lipid and fluorescence and video techniques, will be include: The state of the art for transforma­ protein analysis will be organized. Contact: used in conjunction with microinjection. The tion systems: what is new, what works best, J.-c. Kader, Plant Cell and Molecular faculty is drawn from the academic and what are the current limitations, pros and Physiology Group, Universite Paris 6, Tour industrial communities. Director: R. B. Silver, cons; In vitro plant resources for valuable 53, Case 154, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, Cornell University. Previous faculty: K. products; MorphogeneSiS: differentiation of France; fax 33-1-44-27-61-51. Kindle, Cornell University; D. Kline, Kent plant cells and tissues; MorphogeneSis: State University; and P. Wadsworth, hormonal manipulation of differentiation; June 26-July 1 University of Massachusetts, Amherst. For Safety of genetically engineered plants­ Seventh International Symposium information contact Admissions Coordinator, science and perceptions. Two plant-related Molecular Plant-MicfObe Interactions Marine Biological Laburatory, Woods Hole, workshops also are planned: New advances Edinburgh, Scotland MA 02543; telephone 508-548-3705, ext. 401. in automation for micropropagation; Corn Contact: M. J. Daniels, The Sainsbury transformation. For more :nformation, Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Colney Lane, May 25-28 contact: Marietta W. Ellis, Tissue Culture Norwich NR4 7UH, U.K.; telephone (44) 603 Fifth Gatlinburg Symposium: Association, 8815 Centre Park Drive, Suite 52571, fax (44) 603 250024. Technology Transfer of 210, Columbia, MD 21045; telephone 410-992- Plant Biotechnology 0946, fax 410-992-0949. June 28-29 UniverSity of Tennessee, Knoxville- International Symposium on Topics include: plant transformation for June 12-17 Table Grape PfOduction insect, herbicide, and virus resistance, value­ VIII International Congress on Anaheim Convention Center added plants, plant gene analYSiS, marker­ Plant Tissue and Cell Culture Anaheim, California assisted breeding strategies, bioremediation, Firenze, Italy The American Society for Enology and bioreactors, pharmaceutical production, and Contact: 8th IAPTC Congress, Secretariat, c/ Viticulture is sponsoring an International plant tissue culture. For further information o Oliva Scaral)luzzi, Viale g. Milton 81, Symposium on Table Grape Production in and registration material, contact Peter M. 50129 Firenze, Italy; telephone 55-476377, fax conjunction with its 45th annual meeting in Gresshof, Plant Molecular Genetics, Univer- 55-476393. Anaheim, California, June 26-29 . The MarchiApri11994, Vol. 21, No.2 17 purpose of this symposium is to bring July 10-15 reduced graVity-F. Booth, M. Tischler together scientists, growers, and other parties Gordon Conference (discussion leaders), D. Thomason, S. interested in table grape production and Postharvest Physiology Kandarian, R. Turner, K. Esser; Analysis of research to discuss recent advances in the Plymouth, New Hampshire gravity responses at level of single cells-R. culture, physiology, pest management, Urganizers: J. D. Anderson and D. Grierson. M. Brown Jr., A. Cogoli (discussion leaders), genetics, and postharvest storage of table Sessions and speakers: Molecular Biology of F. Sack, R. Baird, S. Doty; Integration of grapes. Invited speakers will present keynote Fruit Ripening-A. Bennett (discussion gravity signal at multicellular level-L. lectures on production practices and current leader), D. Grierson, H. Klee, j. Beckman, J. Feldman, P. Masson (discussion leaders), D. research in the world's leading table grape Giovannoni, D. Brummell; Biology of Flower Cosgrove, R. Hangarter, D. Angelaki; producing regions. Research scientists Senescence--W. R. Woodson (discussion Evolution/ comparative physiology of working on topics related to table grape leader), M. Reid, K. Evensen, T. Stead; graVity-sensing systems-U. Budelmann, P. production are encouraged to submit Texture Changes and Softening-D. Huber Kaufman (discussion leaders), A. Popper, K. abstracts for presentation at the symposium. (discussion leader), R. Jackman, K. Gross, R. Niklas; Physiological/ morphological effects A two day pre-symposium tour of table Redgwell; Protection during Postharvest of altered gravity---C Mitchell, J. Sonnenfeld grape production and storage facilities in the Handling and Storage--M. Knee (discussion (discussion leaders), T. Baskin, N. Lewis, M. San Joaquin and Coachella Valleys of leader), A. Kanellis, A. Cameron, N. Banks, Ross, K. Chapes; Microgravity research CaWornia is planned. For information J. Rosen; Ethylene Biosynthesis and Action­ opportunities-D. Gaffney, W. Wiesmann contact Nick K. Dokoozlian, University of A. Mattoo (discussion leader), H. Imaseki, j.­ (discussion leaders), L. Young, M. Hughes­ California, Kearney Agricultural Center, 9240 e. Pech, D. R. Dilley, A. Bleecker, M. Fulford; New frontiers/challenges in S. Riverbend, Parlier, CA 93648; telephone R.othenberg; Stress Responses of Fruits and gravitational biology research-E. Morey­ 209-891-2500, fax 209-891-2593. Vegetables-R. Shewfeld (discussion leader), Holton, K. Poff (discussion leaders), M. \1. Cantwell, S. Lurie, G. King; Controlling Correia, S. Roux. Contact: Dr. Carlyle B. Postharvest Diseases-E. Chalutz (discussion Storm, Director, Gordon Research Confer­ JULY leader), D. Prusky, A. EI Ghaouth, A. G. ences, University of Rhode Island, P.O. Box Bennett; Applications and Needs of 984, West Kingston, R1 02892-0984; telephone July 4-24 Postharvest Physiology in the Tropics-R. 401-783-4011; fax 401 -783-7644. Ambidopsis Molecular Genetics Paull (discussion leader), J. Siriphanich, e. A. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Campbell; Future Challenges in July 17-24 Cold Spring Harbor, New York PostharvE'st-A. Watada (discussion leader), 5th International Symposium This course provides an intensive overview E. J. Mitcham, J. K. Fellman, B. L. Upchurch. Genetics and Molecular Biology of of current topics and techniques in Contact Dr. Carlyle B. Storm, Director, Plant Nutrition Arabidopsis biology, with an emphasis on University of Rhode Island, P.O. Box 984, University of California, Davis molecular genetics. It also introduces West Kingston, R1 02892-0984; telephone 401- The symposium will offer summary papers, approaches used in yeast that have the 783-4011, fa x 401-783-7644. reports, and posters dealing with genetic and potential to be utilized for the advancement molecular biological aspects of the following of Arabidopsis molecular genetics. It is July 13-14 and related topics: nutrient acquisition, plant designed for scientists with experience in Biochemical Society Meeting nutrient requirements and responses, molecular techniques who are working or Transgenic Plants and Biochemis try functional aspects and effiCiency of nutrient wish to work with Arabidopsis. Speakers will Lancaster University, U.K. use, mineral composition, and tolerance of provide both an in-depth discussion of their The two day meeting will concentrate on the toxic ions and salts. Papers dealing with all work and an overview of their specialty. use of transgenic plants to study biochemical species of crops will be welcome, as well as Speakers include: F. Ausubel, T. Cashmore, processes in higher plants. Speakers and papers on wild species. Please refer inquiries J. Chory, G. Coruzzi, N. Crawford, G. topics will include: W. P. Quick, N. J. to D. W. Rains, Department of Agronomy & Drews, J. Ecker, P. Green, G. Fink, D. iVlarks, Kruger, e. H. Fuyer, S. Temple, G. Galili, D. Range Science, University of California, D. Meinke, J. Nasrallah, N. Olzewski, D. J Murphy, P. M. Mullineaux, H. Rennenberg, Davis, CA 95616; telephone 916-752-1711, fax Preuss, I. Sussex, A. Telfer, A. Theologis, R. G. Whitelam, A. Catehouse, J. E. Taylor, N. 916-752-4361. Vierstra, D. Weigel, and P. Zambryski. The G. Halford. Proreedings of the meeting will laboratory sessions will cover: Arabidopsis be published in the Biochemical Society July 24-28 genetics and development; transient gene Transactions. Poster prE'senta\ions are merican Phytopathological Society expression assays in protoplasts; complemen­ welcome. For further information contact: Annual Meeting tation of yeast mutants for cloning Professor P.j. Lea, Division of Biological Acapulco, Mexico Arabidopsis genes; two hybrid system in Sciences, Lancaster UniverSity, LA 1 4 YQ, Contact: The American Phytopathological yeast; transformation by Agrobacterium; in U.K.; fax 44-524-382212; e-mail SoCiety, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, SI. Paul, MN situ detection of RNA; protein import into [email protected]. 55121. chloroplasts; biochemical analysis of transcription factors; pulsed-field gel July 17-22 July 24-28 electrophoresis and analysis of yeast artificial Gordon Research Conference The Production of Recombinant Proteins chromosomes containing the Arabidopsis Gravitational Effects on Living Systems in Plants genome. joanne Chory, Salk Institute; joseph New London, New Hampshire Leicester, U.K. Ecker, University of Pennsylvania; Meeting organizers are S. J. Roux, chair, and Contact: Dr. O. Byron, University of Athanasios Theologis, University of Califor­ M. j. Correia, v ice-chair. Sessions and Leicester, Department of Biochemistry, nia, Berkeley. For more information, contact speakers: Mechanisms of senSing and University Road, Leicester, Lei cestershire Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown responding to gravity-Po Todd, A. Sievers LEI 7RH, UK. Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724-2213; (discussion leaders), O. Hamill, C. Otey, M. telephone 516-367-8345, fax 516-367-8845, e­ Staves, K. llasenstpin; Amplification and mail [email protected]. transduction of the gravity signal-B. Pickard, P. Wangemann (discussion leaders), S. Assmann, N. Read, D. Corey; Cellular­ molecular responses to simulated or actual 18 ASPP Newsletter

July 24-29 complexes in oxygenic organisms; Biosynthe­ Gordon Research Conference SIS of chlorophyll-protein complexes; and/or future announcements, contact: Dr. Plant Molecular Biology Structure of a Light-harvesting chlorophyll­ Gregory A. Lang, 137 Julian C. Miller Hall, Louisiana State New Hampton, New Hampshire protem complex (LHCPII). For further UniverSity, Baton Rouge, LA Organizers are Vicki Chandler and Sakis information, please contact: Dr. Richard 70803-2120; telephone 504-388-1043, fax 504- 388-1068. Theologis. Speakers and topics: Transcrip­ Malkin, Department of Plant Biology, tional Control-I. A. Theologis(discussion University of California, 111 Koshland Hall, leader), Z. Schwarz-Sommer, M. Sainz, E. Berkeley, CA 94720; telephone 510-642-5959, Augusi 7-10 Grotewold; II. William Thompson (discus­ fax 510-642-4Y95, e-mail 91st Annual Meeting sion leader), P. Meyer. V. Chandler; [email protected] American Society of Horticultural Sciences Posttranscriptional Control: 1. P. Green, M. Oregon State University, Corvallis -:-he meeting will take place the week Schuler, R. Meagher, J.-D. Rochaix; n. S. August 3-6 following the annual ASPP meeting in Wessler (discussion leader), A. Barkan, T. Plant Growth Regulator Society of America Portland. The program will feature colloquia, Hohn; Post-translational Control: G. Coruzzi Annual Meeting lectures, workshops, and approximately 1000 (discussion leader), R. Zielinski, S. Scofield, Portland, Oregon presentations on all aspects of horticulture. R. Vierstra; Protein targeting: N. Raikhel This meeting will be held at the Red Lion TI1f' 1st International Symposium on Plant (discussion leader), J. Denecke, K. Keegstra; Hotel, Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon, Dormancy and 2nd International Plant Signaling, cell-cell communication: J. Chory overlapping the ASPP annual meeting. The Breeding Symposium will be held at OSU (discussion leader), C. Chang, B. Staskawicz, meetings will feature symposia and research between the ASPP and ASHS meetings. For T.-H. Kao; Developmental Regulation: R. reports on a variety of topiCS related to plant additional information please contact Dr. Meeks-Wagner (discussion leader), K. growth regulation. One symposiwn will Charles Boyer, Ag and Life Sciences 4017, Roberts, R. Schmidt, S. Dellaporta; Keynote address Genetic and Molecular Approaches Oregon State UniverSity, Corvallis, OR speaker: J. Nasrallah, Cell-cell signaling in in Plant Growth Regulation and will feature 97331-7304, telephone 503-737-5475 or e-mail pollen-stigma interactions. Contact Dr. presentations by A. Theologis, H. Klee, R. boyerC®bcc.orst.edu. Carlyle B. Storm, Director, Gordon Research Bensen, and T. Bleeker (Gary Gardner, U of Conferences, University of Rhode Island, Minnesota, organizer). A second symposium Augu t 14-19 P.O. Box 984, West Kingston, RI 02892-0984; will address Roots and Plant Growth Gordon Conference telephone 401-783-4011; fax 401-783-7644. Regulation and will feature talks by P. Read, Salini ty Tolerance in Plants J. Riov, B. Taylor, E. Klepper, and H. Flores Tilton, New Hampshire (Tim Davis, Texas A&M, organizer). Original July 30-August 3 Organizers: M. A. Bisson and F. DuPont. 1994 Annual Meeting research reports, which will be published in Sessions and speakers: Breeding, genetics, American Society of Plant Physiologists the Society's proceedings, are invited in all and whole plant aspects of salt toJerance--E. Portland, Oregon areas of plant growth regulation. The Society Epstein (discussion leader), J. Dvorak, T. J. Contact: 1994 Annual Meeting, ASPP, 15501 will award prizes of $300 and $100 for the Flowers, R. Munns; Metabolic responsE's to Monona Drive, Rockville, MD 20855-2768; two best student papers. For further salinity-J. A. C. Smith (discussion leader), telephone 301-251-0560, fa x 310-279-2996. information, contact Dr. Tom Tworkoski, H. j. Bohnert, M. Popp; Osmoprotectants-D. Program Chair, USDA, ARS, Appalachian Rhodes (discussion leader), A. Hanson, W. Fruit Resea rch Station, Kearneysville, WV July 31-August 4 Loescher, L. N. Csonka; Co-transport 25430, telephone 304-725-3451. Natural Products Research systems-F. M. DuPont (discussion leader), Halifax, Nova Scotia B. Barkla, L. Counillon; Channels-M. A. This will be a jOint meeting of the Phy­ August 4-6 Bisson (discussion leader), E. Blumwald, S. tochemical Society of Europe and the 1st fnternational Symposium on Tyerman, C. Kung; ATPases-L. Taiz American Society of Pharmacology. Contact: Plant Dormancy (discussion leader), L. Wimmers, M. Binzel; Professor R. F. Chandler, Director, College of Oregon State University, Corvallis Salt-induced gene expression-R. Bressan Pharmacy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, This interdisciplinary symposium is (discussion leader), P. M. Hasegawa, J. Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3J5; telephone 902- patterned after the NATO Advanced Cushman, D. Ho; Cell walls and growth 494-2097, Research Workshop series. It will include fax 902-494-1396. responses-J. Dainty (discussion leader), C. keynote and invited speakers, contributed Cramer, A. D. Tomos; Hormones-H.-J. pa per and poster sessions, extensive Bohnert (discussion leader), M. Guiltinan, E. discussion periods, and topica l workshops. It AUGUST Bray. Contact Dr. Carlyle B. Storm, Director, is strategically scheduled to bridge the gap Gordon Research Conferences, University of between the ASPP meeting in Portland and August 3-6 Rhode Island, P. O. Box 984, West Kingston, that of the American Society for Horticul­ Structure, Fundion and Biogenesis of Rl 02892-0984; telC'phone 401-783-4011, fax tural Science in Corvallis. Session topics Chlorophyll-Protein Complexes 401-783-7644. University of California, Los Angeles include: Approachl's to Dormancy Rl'search; This meeting is being organized in honor of PhySiology, Biochemistry and Cene Expres­ August 16-19 the retirement of Professor sion Related to (I) Temperature, (2) J. P. Thornber of Plant Biotechnology Methods the Department of Biology at UCLA. The Hydrational Status, and (3) Photoperiodism; Pennsylvania State University and Agricultural and Biotechnologica l purpose of the meeting is to bring together University Park, Pennsylvania Manipulation. Workshop topics include: Seed scientists with an interest in structural and Contact: Biotechnology Institute, The Dormancy; Bud Dormancy; Ph YS iological, functional problems related to chlorophyll­ Pennsylvania State University, 519 Wartik Biochemical, and Molecular Aspects of Plant protein complexes. Recent developments in Lab, University Park, PA 16802-9959. this field will be discussed and will serve as Dormancy; and Control in Agricultural the basis for discussions of future directions Cropping Systems (including breed ing). for research. Invited speakers will present Attendance will be limited by application to lectures on the following topiCS: Structure of a maximum of about 75 pa rticipants, with a the bacterial reaction center complex; proportion of applications available to Structure and function of antenna chloro­ advanced graduate students and postdoc­ phyll-protein complexes; Reaction center to ral researchers. For additional information MarchlApril1994, Vol. 21, No.2 19

August 29-September 1 September 7-9 OCTOBER Environmental Constraints and Oaks: Manipulation ot Photosynthetic Carbon Ecological and Physiological Aspects Metabolism to Improve Crop Productivity October 2-6 Nancy, France Rothamsted Experimental Station, 22nd Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky Conference This international symposium is sponsored Harpenden, U.K. Plant Molecular Biology: Potential Impact by INRA, IUFRO, and EUROSIL VA. The This meeting is organized by Rothamsted on Agriculture and the Environment program will consist of six sessions, each and the Plant Metabolism Group of the Koln, Germany containing invited lectures, voluntary Society of Experimental Biology to mark the Organizers: Jeff Schell, Ilan Chet, and Robert communications, and posters. The sessions retirement of Dr. Alfred Keys. Invited and Fluhr. 111e Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky are: (1) water-stress-induced dysfunctions in contributing speakers will discuss recent Conferences are a series of symposia on oak tree physiology: effects of drought, advances in primary photosynthetic carbon timely scientific topics. The aim of the 22nd waterlogging, and associated constraints; (2) metabolism and opportunities for engineer­ conference is to present work in plant interactions between environmental con­ ing it to improve the efficiency of crop molecular biology that has potential straints and pathogenesis; (3) effects of production. Sessions will include: photosyn­ agricultural and biotechnical applications. climate change and elevated C02 on oak thetic efficiency in relation to crop produc­ Sessions will include: Modulating Biochemi­ physiology and ecology; (4) ecology and tivity; alternative pathways for carbon cal Pathways; Control of Growth; Ripening growth of oak stands; (5) ecological and fixation; constraints to Rubisco activity­ and Fertility; Natural and Engineered physiological analysis of oak decline; and (6) :dentification and removal; genetic ap­ Resistance Genes; Environmental ecological diversity and population genetics proaches to manipulating photosyntheSiS and Interactions;Recognition and Biological of oak species. Those interested are invited environmental interactions. Further details Control; Signal Reception and Transduction. to present research results related to one of are available from Dr. M. A. J. Parry, Contact: Secretariat 22nd AKK Conference, the six sessions as oral communications or Rothamsted Experimental Station, Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky Center, Weizmann posters. The proceedings will be published Harpenden, Hertfordshire ALS 2JQ, UK; Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel; in a special edition of Annales des Sciences telephone 0582 763133, fax 0582760981. telephone 972-8-342148, fax 972-8-474425. Forestieres. For further information, please contact the symposium secretariat: E. Dreyer September 9-10 October 2-6 or J. Bohin, U.R. Ecophysiologie Forestiere, Down Regulation of Gene Expression by Second International Symposium on the INRA-Nancy, F 54280, Champenoux, France; Antisense and Other Technologies Applications of Biotechnology to Tree telephone 33-83-39-40-41, fax 33-83-39-40-69, Iowa State University, Ames Culture, Protection, and Utilization e-mail [email protected] or Richard E. Contact: Dr. Cecil Stewart, Department of Minneapolis, Minnesota Dickson, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, 5985 Botany, Iowa State University, Ames, lA, This meeting is being held in conjunction Highway K, P.O. Box 898, Rhinelander, WI 50011; telephone 515-294-1063, fax 515-294- with the TAPPI R&D Division Biological 5450 1; telephone 715-362-7474, fax 715-362- 1337. Sciences Symposium. Preliminary topics: 7816. commercialization of tree biotechnology; September 12-14 tissue culture; tree genetics, physiology and Protein Phosphorylation in I'Jants stress; tree protection (insects/ diseases). SEPTEMBER Bristol, United Kin~dom Concurrent sessions withTAPPl: Sessions will include: The role of protein bioprocessing/biopulping/bioremediation; September 5-9 phosphorylation in the regulation of plant gene mapping/ molecular biology. Contrib­ InterdiSCiplinary Congress on metabolism; Cell cycle regulation; Molecular uted sessions and poster presentations. For Plant Biomechanics cloning of plant protein kinases; Protein further information, please contact: Edith MontpeLlier, France phosphorylation in signal reception and Franson, Executive Secretary, Tree Biotech­ The Congress will emphasize the importance transduction. Invited speakers include: G. nology Symposium, Forestry Sciences of interactions between biological, materials Hardie, C. MacKintosh, H. Nimmo, P. Gadal, Laboratory, P.O. Box 898, Rhinelander, WI ~ci e nce and engineering aspects of plants, C. Foyer, S. Huber, D. Inze, D. Dudits, M. 54501; telephone 715-362-7474, fax 715-362- stressing also their relevance to agricultural, Kreis, N. Halford, B. Kohorn, A. Trewavas, 7816. horticultural, sylvicultural or industrial G. Scherer, J. R. Ecker, J. Walker. For further applications. The program will consist of deta ils, please contact P. R. Shew ry, N. G. submitted papers, lectures, and roundtable Halford, or R. Hooley, Department of NOVEMBER discussions on adaptive mechanica l design Agricultural Sciences, University of Bristol, of plants, biomechanics of growth, and AFRC Institute of Arable Crops Research, November 1-4 short-term biomechanical responses. Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol, BS18 Cucurbitaceae 94: Evaluation and Sponsoring organization is the French 9AF; telephone 2-75-392181; fax: 2-75-394007. Enhancement of Cucurbit Germplasm Comite National de la Recherche South Padre Island, Texas Sc ientifique. The scientific committee September 12-17 The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, includes R. R. Archer, P. Baas, J. Crabbe, P. 8th European Bioenergetics Conference Texas Agricultural Extension Service, and Cruziat, A. R. Ennos, B. Gardiner, D. Valencia, Spain USDA / ARS Subtropical Research Laboratory Guitard, F. Halle, M. Jaffe, G. Jeronimidis, K. Contact: Eduardo Real, EBE 94, Centro de will host Cucurbitaceae 94 at the RacUsson Ruel, B. Monties, V. Mosbrugger, J. C. Investigaciones Biologicas, Velazquez 144, Resort, South Padre Island, Texas. The Roland, W. Silk, T. Speck, H-Ch. Spatz, B. 28006 Madrid, Spain; fax 34-1-562-7518, e­ purpuse uf this meeting is to provide a Thibaut, J. Vincent. To obtain further details, mail [email protected]. forum for the presentation of current C(lntact Bernard Thibaut, LMGC "Bois," CP scientific information about germ plasm 81, U. Montpellier Il, Place Eugene Bataillon, evaluation and research activities in cucurbit 34095 Montpellier Cedex, France; telephone crops. The scientific program will consist of 33 67.14.34.31, fa x 33 67.54 .48.52. posters, invited talks, and panel discussions on diseases, host-pathogen interactions, and genetics related to the enhancement of cucurbit germ plasm. Molecular and genetic aspects of diseases, germ plasm resources, 20 ASPP Newsletter breeding strategies, and the physiology of Apri1199S 99164-6420; telephone 509-335-8696, fax 509- fruit quality are a few of the topics that will Mass Spectrometry 335-8674, e-mail [email protected]. be covered in the 1994 meeting. To receive Swansea, United Kingdom additional information on program content This meeting is sponsored by the Phy­ July 4-7, 1995 and registration material, contact Dr. James tochemical Society of Europe. Contact 9th International Rapeseed Congress R. Dunlap, Texas Agricultural Experiment address: Dr. C. J. Smith, Department of Cambrid~e, England Station, 2415 East Highway 83, Weslaco TX Biochemistry, University College of Swansea, Since the last Congress in Saskatoon in 1991, 78596; telephone 210-968-5585; fax 210-968- Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK.; interest in rapeseed has been aroused by 0641, e-mail [email protected]. telephone ++44-(0)792-295378, fax ++44- awareness of the superior nutritional (0)792-295447. advantages of rape oil. There is also growing November 13-16 recognition of outlets for industrial purposes, Third International Symposium for which the perceived benign effect on the Biosafety Results of Field Tests of MAY environment is an added attraction. It is Genetically Modified intended that the congress should cover Plants and Microorganisms May 8-13, 1995 these and other aspects of rapeseed produc­ Monterev, California First International Symposium of tion and utilization. Cambridge is in a major Contact: -Alvin Young, USDA, Office of Sucrose Metabolism rapeseed growing area and has a distin­ Agricultural Biotechnology, telephone 703- Mar del Plata, Argentina guished background in agricultural research. 235-4419, fax 703-235-4429. This meeting will commemorate the 40th The first announcement and call for papers anniversary of the discovery of the two is currently being distributed. Copies are sucrose metabolizing enzymes and honor the available from the secretary: Denis Kimber, 1995 memory of their discoverers, Drs. Luis Leloir 44 Church Street, Haslingfield, Cambridge, and Carlos Cardini. The aim of the meeting CB3 7JE, England. is to present a comprehensive and integrated APRIL view of sucrose metabolism under the following main topics: sucrose biosynthesis AUGUST April 3-6, 1995 and its regulation; sucrose cleavage and its International Symposiwn on Weed and regulation; molecular biology of sucrose August 6-11, 1995 Crop Resistance to Herbicides metabolizing enzymes; sucrose conversion to 10th International Workshop on University of Cordoba, Spain starch; sucrose conversion to fructans and Plant Membrane Biology This sympOSium will be jointly sponsored by raffinose-based polymers; sucrose transport Regensburg, Germany the European Weed Research Society and the (long distance and intracellular) and the role Meeting is intended to cover the following Spanish Weed Science SOCiety. Research on of sucrose in plant stress. The sympOSium topics: pumps, carriers, channels, long herbicide resistance mechanisms in plants is will consist of six to eight sessions of four to distance transport processes, and transduc­ one of the most important aspects within the five speakers each with discussion session tion of chemical and electrical signals. crop and weed-herbicide area. Identification and evening poster presentations. Those Second announcement containing the final and characterization of resistant biotypes as interested in receiving additional information program and aU details on registration and well as the study of their resistance in the future please contact: Dr. Horacio accommodation will be mailed in October mechanisms can help us to develop new Pontis or Dr. Graciela Salerno, Fundacion 1994. To obtain the second announcement, strategies for weed control and to improve para Investigaciones Biologicas Aplicadas, contact Widmar Tanner or Norbert Sauer, agricultural productivity while protecting Casilla de Correos 1348, 7600 Mar del Plata, Lehrstuhl fur Zellbiologie und our environment and conserving our nanlral Argentina, telephone 54-23-74-8257, fax 54- Pflanzenphysiologie, :..iniversitat Regensburg, resources. Important efforts are especially 23-74-3357; or Dr. Ed Echeverria, Citrus Universitatsstrasse 31, 93053 Regensburg, being directed toward the design of Research and Education Center, 700 Germany; fax 49-941-943-3352. biopesticides and developing herbicide­ Experiment Station Road, Lake Alfred, FL tolerant crops through genetic engineering 33850, USA, telephone 8\3-956-1151, fax 813- August 13-17, 1995 techniques. General topics: herbicide target 956-4631. Phytochemical Society of North America sites and resistance mechanisms associated Annual Meeting with them; resistance mechanisms associated Sault Sle. Marie, Ontario, Canada with herbicide metabolization and detoxifica­ JULY The meeting will feature a symposium tion; other resistance mechanisms; biotechno­ entitled Phytochemical Redundancy in logical approaches to develop herbicide July 2-7, 1995 Ecological Interactions. The theme of the resistance in crops-problems and possibili­ 7th International Symposium on symposium will stress the diversity, overlap, ties; integrated mechanical, chemical, and Preharvest Sprouting in Cereals and variety of plant chemical defenses biological methods for weed control­ Abashiri, Hokkaido, Japan against biologica I stresses including insects, managing or avoiding resistance. Deadline SpeCific topics will include: Physiology and fungi, and large herbivores. Speakers for the for abstracts: January 30, 1995. For further molecular biology of grain development and symposium are being solicited from persons information or to receive a copy of the first germination; influence of environmental, active in the area. Interested potential circular, contact Dr. J. Jorrin, Departamento physical and agronomic factors on sprouting; speakers or persons with suggestions for de Bioquimica y Bioiogia Molecular, genetics and plant breeding; effects of speakers should contact either program co­ University of Cordoba, Apartado 3048, sprouting damage on cereal end products. chairperson for additional information: Dr. Cordoba, Spain; telephone 57-218439, fax 57- To receive a first announcement contact: James A. Saunders, Plant Sciences Institute, 218563. Secretariat, 7th International Symposium on USDA, Bldg. 9, Rm 5, Beltsville, MD 20705, Preharvest Sprouting in Cereals, Kitami telephone 301 504-7477, fax 301 504-6478; Dr. Agricultural Experiment Station, Kunneppu, Pedro Barbosa, Department of Entomology, Hokkaido 099-14, Japan; telephone 0157-47- University of Maryland, College Park, MD 21 46, fax 0157-47-2774 or M. K. Walker­ 20742, telephone 301 405-3946 office, fax 301 Simmons, USDA-ARS, 209 Johnson Hall, 314-9290. Washington State University, Pullman, W A