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Plant Senescence
July 14-19, 1996
Plymouth State College
Plymouth, NH

SESSION 1: SUNDAY EVENING, July 14

PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH

  • Session Chair: Alan Bennett
  • Arnold Greenberg - Apoptosis and the cell cycle
  • Barbara Osborne - Evolutionarily conserved programs of cell death
SESSION II: MONDAY MORNING, July 15

PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH: PLANT PATHOGENESIS

  • Session Chair: David Gilchrist
  • David Gilchrist - The role of apoptosis in plant disease
  • Michelle Heath - Apoptosis and the hypersensitive response
  • Robert Dietrich - Genetic regulation of programmed cell death in Arabidopsis
  • Eric Lam - Calcium-regulated endonucleases participate in hypersensitive response
SESSION III: MONDAY EVENING, July 15

PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH: PLANT DEVELOPMENT

  • Session chair: Randy Woodson
  • Randy Woodson - Programmed cell death of floral organs
  • Dan Gallie - Programmed cell death in maize endosperm
  • Hiroo Fukuda - Xylogenesis: a model of programmed cell death
  • Eric Beers - Protease expression in developing xylem
SESSION IV: TUESDAY MORNING, July 16

ENDOGENOUS REGULATION OF SENESCENCE

  • Session chair: Larry Nooden
  • Michael Reid - Regulation of ethylene-independent senescence
  • Linda Hensel-Burke - Mutants in monocarpic senescence
  • Sonia Philosoph-Hadas - Calcium-mediated signal transduction in leaf senescence
  • Susheng Gan - Hormonal control of senescence in transgenic plants

SESSION V: TUESDAY EVENING, July 16

  • Poster Session
SESSION VI: WEDNESDAY MORNING, July 17

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION OF SENESCENCE

  • Session chair: Michael Reid
  • Michael Reid
  • Koh Iba - Regulation of chilling sensitivity by lipid desaturation
  • Dean DellaPenna - Regulation of carotenogenesis - protection from oxidative stress
SESSION VII: WEDNESDAY EVENING, July 17

NUCLEIC ACID AND PROTEIN TURNOVER

  • Session chair: Richard Vierstra
  • Rick Vierstra - The ubiquitin system of protein turnover
  • Richard Amasino - Senescence-regulated CIPB homologs targeted to the chloroplast
  • Autar Mattoo - Ripening-regulated carboxypeptidases
  • Amnon Lers - Senescence-regulated RNases
SESSION VIII: THURSDAY MORNING, July 18

MEMBRANE AND CELL WALL TURNOVER

  • Session chair: John Thompson
  • John Thompson - Membrane turnover and cellular aging
  • Rick Bostock - Lipid turnover and cellular signaling of cell death
  • Phillipe Matile - Chlorophyll catabolism in senescing leaves
  • Pamela Dunsmuir - Suppression of endoglucanase expression in ripening fruit
SESSION IX: THURSDAY EVENING, July 18

SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION REGULATING SENESCENCE

  • Session chair: Tony Bleecker
  • Tony Bleeker - Ethylene binding and perception by ETRI
  • Harry Klee - Regulation of ethylene production and perception in tomato
  • Jill Deikman - Ethylene-regulated gene expression

 
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