1995 Annual Meeting Program

Friday, 7 April 1995

8-9 --- Registration, Kellogg Center, Room 104

8:30-9 --- Coffee and Muffins will be available outside Room 104

SESSION I: Kellogg Center, Room 104, Dan Bush presiding

 

9:00 -- Opening Remarks, Dan Bush

 

9:15 -- Evidence for the light/dark regulation of Rubisco by a phosphorylated inhibitor in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Jongyun Heo, Steven Kuhl, and Gabriel Holbrook, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University.

 

9:30 -- Redox modulation and light activation of NADP-linked glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase in Rhodophytes and Cyanobacteria. Michael Pacold, Dong Li, Fred Stevens, and Louise Anderson, Biology Department, University of Illinois-Chicago, Center for Mechanistic Biology and Biotechnology, Argonne National Laboratory.

 

9:45 -- Improved yields of transgenic potatoes expressing sucrose phosphate synthase. Thomas Sharkey and Marianne Laporte, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin.

 

10:00 -- A component of the chloroplast protein import apparatus has a novel targeting and insertion pathway. Patrick Tranel, John Froehlich, Arun Goyal, and Ken Keegstra, MUS-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University.

 

10:15 -- Coffee

 

10:45 -- A stromal hsp70 homologue interacts with precursors at an early stage in chloroplast protein import. Erik Nielson and Ken Keegstra, MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University.

 

11:00 -- Nuclear pore complex proteins from higher plants are modified by novel oligosaccharides. Antje Hesse-Peck and Natasha Raikhel, MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University.

 

11:30 -- An Arabidopsis syntaxin homologue isolated by functional complementation of a yeast pep12 mutant. Diane Bassham and Natasha Raikhel, MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University.

 

11:45-1:00 -- Lunch, Red Cedar Room A

 

SESSION II: Kellogg Center, Room 104, Tim Mulkey presiding

 

1:00 -- Stability of barley aleurone alpha-amylase mRNA in the absence of gibberellic acid. Lori Kreisman and Mark Brodl, Department of Biology, Knox College.

 

1:30 -- Purification of the ethylene-related E-8 protein over-expressed in E. coli. Yali Zhu and David Dilley, Horticulture Department, Michigan State University.

 

9:15 -- Catalytic and noncatalytic inactivation of ACC oxidase. Philippos Ververidis and David Dilley, Horticulture Department, Michigan State University.

 

9:30 -- Synthesis and characterization of a flavin-3, 4-diol. Botao Zhao, Jason Hehr, and Lesley Putman, Department of Chemistry, Northern Michigan University.

 

9:45 -- Cloning of the anthranilate synthase genes of 5-methyltryptophan-resistant tobacco. Hee-Sook Song and Jack Widholm, Department of Agronomy, University of Illinois.

 

10:00 -- Coffee

 

10:30 -- Expression of an antifungal gene, maize chitinase, in tobacco and its effect on Rhizoctonia solani, V.R. Patil, S.Wu, M.M. Meyer, Jr., and J.M. Widholm, Departments of Horticulture and Agronomy, University of Illinois.

 

10:45 -- Cross resistance characterization of sugarbeet resistance to acetolactate synthase inhibitors. Terry Wright, Donald Penner and Joseph Saunders, Crop and Soil Sciences, Michigan State University.

 

11:00 -- Induction of endosufon tolerance in Cicer arietinum (L.) using tissue culture methods. Ramula a. Chinnala, Department of Botany, Kakatiya University and Department of Agronomy, University of Illinois.

 

11:15 -- Cashew apple (Anacardium occidentale L.) polyuronide alterations from different storage conditions. M.M. Magalhaes, R.G.F.A. Pereira, S.M. Silva, and A.B. Chitarra, Departmanto de Ciencias dos Alimentos, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil, and Deparment of Agronomy, University of Illinois.

 

11:30 -- Judges of student competition confer

11:45 -- Announcement of Student Awards -- Dan Bush, Chair MWASPP