The Phytochemical Society of North America August 8–12, 2015 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign conferences.illinois.edu/psna psna-online.org Meeting Venues and Hotels 74 74 Holiday Inn Comfort Suites 45 PERKINS ROAD BRADLEY AVENUE GOODWIN AVENUE GOODWIN AVENUE LINCOLN CUNNINGHAM AVENUE WASHINGTON STREET STREET WRIGHT 1ST STREET STREET4TH Downtown PARK STREET Champaign UNIVERSITY AVENUE Hampton Inn BROADWAY VINE STREET RACE STREET Illinois Terminal (Amtrak, Greyhound, CUMTD) 150 University SPRINGFIELD AVENUE of Illinois Downtown 150 Campus STATE STREET STATE RANDOPH STREET NEIL STREET NEIL Urbana Urbana Landmark Hotel GREEN STREET Illini Union Illini Union Hotel ILLINOIS STREET Alice Campbell 45 Alumni Center 1ST STREET Map is to scale, but not all streets are shown. Hilton Garden Inn KIRBY AVENUE FLORIDA AVENUE To Willard Airport (CMI) ST. MARY’S ROAD Savoy I Hotel and Conference Center Contents 2015 PSNA Meeting 2 Greetings! Organizing Committee 3 General Information Mark Berhow, USDA, ARS, Peoria, IL 3 Registration Desk Hours Franck Dayan, USDA, ARS, Oxford, MS 3 Meeting Venues Elvira de Mejia, University of Illinois at 4 Meeting Hotels Urbana-Champaign 4 Transportation David Gang, Washington State University 4 Parking Massuo Jorge Kato, University of Sao 4 Wi-Fi Access Paulo, Brazil 5 Emergency Numbers and Procedures Aruna Kilaru, East Tennessee State University 5 Moderators, Speakers, Poster Presenters, and Exhibitors Dhirendra Kumar, East Tennessee State University 5 Refreshments Argelia Lorence, Arkansas State 6 Meeting Agenda University 6 Saturday, August 8 Susan McCormick, USDA, ARS, Peoria, IL 6 Sunday, August 9 Shelly Nickols-Richardson, University of 7 Monday, August 10 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 8 Tuesday, August 11 Dejan Nikolic, University of Illinois at 9 Wednesday, August 12 Chicago J. Fred Stevens, Oregon State University 10 Speaker Abstracts Lloyd Sumner, the Noble Foundation, 10 Symposium 1: Phytochemical and Plant Ardmore, OK “omics” Dorothea Tholl, Virginia Technical 15 Symposium 2: Phytochemical Lipids University and Metabolism Li Tian, University of California at Davis 19 Symposium 3: Phytochemical Biosynthesis De-Yu Xie, North Carolina State University 24 Symposium 4: Chemical Ecology I 30 Symposium 5: Chemical Ecology II 34 Symposium 6: Botanical Medicines 39 Symposium 7: Nutritional & Medicinal Phytochemistry 44 Poster Abstracts 74 Participant List August 8–12, 2015 • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1 Greetings! Welcome to the twin cities of Urbana and Founded in 1867 as a state-supported, land- Champaign, in the heart of east central Illinois. grant institution under the terms of the Morrill In case you’re wondering, they’re not identical Land Grant Act of 1862 with a threefold mission twins; their births were separated by about of teaching, research, and public service, the 30 years. Urbana dates back to 1822, when UIUC opened its doors to students in 1868 and William Tompkins built the first homestead on rapidly earned a reputation as an educational the site that 11 years later was officially platted institution of international stature. Today, as a new city. Champaign didn’t come into scholars and educators rank it among a select existence until 1852, when the Illinois Central group of the world’s great universities. For Railroad laid tracks two miles outside of Urbana more information, see the university website and residents who settled close by rejected (www.illinois.edu). annexation efforts and instead incorporated UIUC is a residential campus of classrooms, their own city a few years later. Despite the fact laboratories, libraries, residence halls, and that the two cities now share many services recreational and cultural facilities with 200 (as well as Wright Street, the official dividing major buildings on the central campus of line) and are cooperative and cordial with 1,783 acres. Nearby are the University’s 1,650- each other, referenda to merge the two into acre Willard Airport; Robert Allerton Park, the a single metropolis have been, since 1855, campus’s 1,768-acre nature and conference consistently and resoundingly defeated. The center; and 3,600 acres of agricultural land. An courthouse in Urbana, the permanent county additional 3,700 acres of farmland elsewhere in seat for Champaign County, was frequented Illinois are used by the College of Agricultural, in the 1840s and 1850s by a young lawyer Consumer, and Environmental Sciences as who practiced law in the 8th Judicial Circuit. In experimental fields. The University also owns 1854, this lawyer—named Abraham Lincoln— close to 1,000 acres of natural areas within delivered one of his first public speeches a 50-mile radius of the campus, held for the against slavery in the county courthouse in express purpose of conducting ecological downtown Urbana. research. About the University of Illinois at The University of Illinois and its various Urbana-Champaign campuses have had a long history of scientific exploration into the world of plants, both in The lives of the residents of Urbana and production and in biological and chemical Champaign were changed forever when, characterization. The Morrow Plots are the in 1867, the Illinois Industrial University, oldest agronomic experiment fields in the later to become the University of Illinois at United States which include the longest- Urbana-Champaign, was chartered. The term continuous corn plot in the world. In University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1968, the Morrow Plots became a National is a comprehensive, major public university Historic Landmark. Some of the seminal work that is ranked among the best in the country. 2 The Phytochemical Society of North America General Information understanding on photosynthesis and carbon Registration Desk Hours dioxide fixation was done in part here including the work of the labs of Govindjee and W.L. The registration desk is located outside Illini Ogren. The University continues to feature a Rooms ABC on the main level of the Illini diverse array of agricultural-based research Union, except as noted. in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Saturday, August 8 4:30–7:30 pm Environmental Sciences, one the hosts of this I Hotel and Conference Center—Lincoln Room meeting. Sunday, August 9 7:30 am–5:30 pm Today, UIUC is home to life scientists across Monday, August 10 the campus using new genomic tools, 7:30 am–5:30 pm computational methods and chemical analytical Tuesday, August 11 7:30 am–5:30 pm techniques to explore mechanisms of interest Wednesday, August 12 to phytochemists. In addition to departmental 7:30–11:00 am programs, the UIUC Institute for Genomic Your registration includes the conference Biology, is an international center for genomics program, the welcome reception on Saturday, research. Other unique campus research refreshment breaks Sunday-Wednesday, lunch resources include SoyFACE, a 60-acre facility Sunday-Tuesday, poster sessions on Sunday instrumental in documenting the chemical and Monday, and the banquet on Tuesday. A ecology of global climate change in agriculture, limited number of guest banquet tickets may the world’s largest public university library (with be available for purchase at the registration 24 million-plus items in its catalogue), and Blue desk during the conference. Waters, the petaflop supercomputer that is the fastest anywhere in the world on a university Meeting Venues campus), capable of over 13 quadrillion Illini Union calculations per second. With 22 Nobel Prize (Sunday–Wednesday) winners and 20 Pulitzer Prize winners among 1401 W. Green St. faculty and alumni, the University of Illinois is Urbana, IL 61801 the number one return on investment in the Phone: 217-333-4666 Midwest. union.illinois.edu I Hotel and Conference Center “The best way to predict the future is (Saturday’s welcome reception) to create it.” 1900 S. 1st St. —Abraham Lincoln Champaign, IL 61820 Phone: 217-819-5000 Welcome to Illinois! stayatthei.com May Berenbaum Alice Campbell Alumni Center Mark Berhow (Tuesday’s banquet) Elvira de Mejia 601 S. Lincoln Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: 217-333-1471 uiaa.org/alumnicenter August 8–12, 2015 • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 3 Meeting Hotels Terminal daily (217-352-4150 or greyhound. com). A few Amtrak trains serve Champaign- Illini Union Hotel Urbana via the Illinois Terminal in Champaign 1401 W. Green St. (amtrak.com). Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: 217-333-4666 Taxi Service union.illinois.edu Yellow Checker Cab, Phone: 217-355-3553 Orange Taxi, Phone: 217-363-1500 I Hotel Green Taxi, Phone: 217-721-5533 1900 S. 1st St. Quality Limo & Taxi, Phone: 217-552-7400 Champaign, IL 61820 Phone: 217-819-5000 Willard Airport stayatthei.com 11 Airport Rd., Savoy, IL 61822 Phone: 217-244-8618 Comfort Suites flycmi.com 2001 N. Lincoln Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 Parking Phone: 217-328-3500 comfortsuites.com/hotel-urbana-illinois-IL366 Parking is free and plentiful at the I Hotel and Conference Center and Comfort Suites. If you Transportation are staying at the Illini Union Hotel, you will be given a complimentary parking pass to park in Some area hotels have a complimentary shuttle their adjacent lot. For those staying elsewhere, that makes trips between the airport, the hotel, there is limited metered parking near the Illini and campus. Please call your hotel or check at Union and Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Be their front desk to arrange for a ride. sure to bring quarters to feed the meters or Champaign-Urbana MTD Bus System plan to pay by phone. If you are willing to walk Champaign-Urbana has a great public a few blocks, you may be able to find free transportation system, with several stops on parking in the residential area east of the Illini campus and near the conference hotels. The Union, just past Lincoln Avenue. 27 Air Bus runs between Willard Airport in Savoy and the Illini Union several times a day. Wi-Fi Access A standard ride costs $1, one-way, with free Wireless Internet access is free at the transfers from route to route.