Program |
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Tuesday Morning, February 25, 1997 |
9:00 a.m. |
Openning Address-Mikio Nishimura |
9:05 a.m. |
Welcome to NIBB-Hideo Mohri (Director General of NIBB) |
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Session I-Crop Improvement |
Chairpersons: Klaus Miintz and Satoshi Naito |
9:15 a.m. |
Metabolic Engineering to Modify Amino Acid and Starch Coomposition in Seeds |
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Enno Krebbers, K. Broglie, C. Falco, N. Hubbard, T. Jones, and T. Klein |
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Dupont Agricultural Biotechnology, Wilmington, Delaware, USA. |
9:45 a.m. |
Regulation of Soybean Seed Storage Protein Genes by Nutritional Conditions |
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Toru Fujiwara |
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The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. |
10:15 a.m. |
A Passage to Isolation of an Arabidopsis Mutant Which is Impaired in the Response to Methionine |
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Satoshi Naito |
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Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. |
11:05 a.m. |
How does the Seed's Sulphur Metabolism React on High Level Formation of Foreign Methionin-rich Proteins in Transgenic Narbon Bean (Vica Narbonensis L.) |
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Klaus Muntz1, I. Saalbach1, T. Pickardt1, D. Enneking2 and T. Wistenhagen1 |
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1Institut fur Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung, Gatersleben, Germany: 2University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia. |
11:35 a.m. |
Expression of a 2S Albumin from Bertholletia excelsa in Soybean |
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R. Jung, M.C. Tarczynski, V.M. Dress, J.A. Townsend, S.J. Martino-Catt and Larry R. Beach |
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Pioneer Hi-Bred Intl., Inc., Johnston, IA, USA |
0:05 p.m. |
Transgenic Seeds: a Novel Formulation of Industrial Enzymes |
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Anne S. Ponstein1, J. Bade1. T.C. Verwerd1 and J. Pen2 |
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1MOGEN N. V., Leiden, The Netherlands; 2PlantZyme, Leiden, The Netherlands |
0:35 p.m. |
LUNCH |
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Tuesday Afternoon, February 25, 1997 |
Session II-Biosynthesis of Seed Proteins |
Chairpersons: Brian A. Larkins and Kenzo Nakamura |
1:30 p.m. |
Vacuolar Processing System in Protein-Storage Vacuoles and Vegetative Vacuoles |
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Ikuko Hara-Nishimura |
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National institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki 444, Japan |
2:00 p.m. |
Mechanisms of Assembly and Deposition of Wheat Storage Proteins |
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Gad Galili1, Y. Shimoni1, H. Levanony1, A.E. Blechl2 and O.D. Anderson2 |
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1The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; 2U.S.D.A, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, CA, USA. |
2:30 p.m. |
The Sorting of Storage Protein mRNAs in Developing Rice Endosperm Cells |
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Thomas W. Okita, D.G. Muench and Y. Wu |
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Washington State University, Pullman, WA USA. |
3:00 p.m. |
Coffee Break (Group Photo) |
3:30 p.m. |
Nutritional Quality of Maize Endosperm |
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Brian A. Larkins |
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University of Arizona, Tueson, AZ, USA |
4:00 p.m. |
Study on Molecular Mechanism of Endosperm-specific Expression in Rice Storage Protein Genes |
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Fumio Takaiwa |
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National Institute of Agrobiological Resourees, Tsukuba, Japan. |
4:30 p.m. |
Possible Mechanisms for Nitrogen Remobilization from Senescing Tissues to Developing Grains in Rice Plants: Cellular Localization of GSl and NADH-GOGAT |
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Tomoyuki Tamaya |
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Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan |
6:00 p.m. |
RECEPTION |
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Wednesday Morning, February 26, 1997 |
Session III-Embryogenesis and Meristem Differentiation |
Chairpersons: Takao Minamikawa and John J. Harada |
9:00 a.m. |
Control of Seed Maturation in Arabidopsis |
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T. Lotan1, M. Ohto1·2, M.A.L. West1, K.L. Matsudaira Yee1, R.W. Kwong1, J.L. Zimmerman3, R.L. Fischer4, R.B. Goldberg5 and John J. Harada1 |
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1University of California, Davis, CA, USA; 2Current Address: National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan; 3University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA; 4University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA; 5University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. |
9:30 a.m. |
Regulation of Gene Expression by Abscisic Acid and Seed-Specific Transcription Factor VPl |
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Tsukaho Hattori, Y. Kagaya, T. Hobo, M. Asada, J. Koike |
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Mic University, Tsu, Japan. |
10:00 a.m. |
Gene Involved Organ Separation during Embryogenesis and Flower Development in Arabidopsis Thaliana |
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Masao Tasaka, M. Aida, T. Ishida, H. Fukaki and H. Fujisawa |
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Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. |
10:30 a.m. |
Coffee Break |
10:50 a.m. |
Molecular Approach to Mechanism of Apical Dominance |
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Hitoshi Mori, Y.Madoka and S. Shimizu |
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Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. |
11:20 a.m. |
Cysteine Proteinases in Germinating and Developing Seeds: Isolation, Developmentally Regulated Expression and Subcellular Localization |
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Claudia Becker1, V.I. Senyuk2, A.D. Shutov2, S. Hillmer1, A. Schlereth1, R. Jung3 and K. Miintz1 |
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1Institut fur Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany; 2State University of Moldova, Kishinev, Republic of Moldova, CIS; 3USDA, ARS, Agronomy Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA |
11:50 a.m. |
A Vacuolar Cysteine Endopeptidase That Digests Seed Storage Globulin: Mechanism of Multistep Processing and Activation |
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Takashi Okamoto and T. Minamikawa |
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Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan |
0:20 p.m. |
LUNCH |
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Wednesday Afternoon, February 26, 1997 |
Session V-Microbodies in Oil Seeds |
Chairpersons: Takashi Akazawa and Richard N. Trelease |
1:30 p.m. |
Reversible Transformation of Microbodies in Pumpkin and Arabidopsis |
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Mikio Nishimura |
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National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan |
2:00 p.m. |
Biogenesis of Glyoxysomes: Targeting and Import of Oilseed Isocitrate Lyases and Catalases |
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Richard N. Trelease, R.T. Mullen, and M.S. Lee |
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Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ., USA |
2:30 p.m. |
Arabidopsis Mutants That Have Defect on Fatty Acid β-Oxidation |
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Makoto Hayashi, K. Toriyama, M. Kondo and M. Nishimura |
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National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan |
3:00 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
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Session VI-Carbohydrate Metabolism in Sink Organs |
3:30 p.m. |
Control of Carbon Partitioning in Potato Tubers |
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Richard Trethewey and L. Willmitzer |
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Max-Planck-Institut fur Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Golm, Germany |
4:00 p.m. |
Arabidopsis Mutants in Which Regulation of Gene Expression during Plastid Development in Nongreen Tissues is Disordered |
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Hirokazu Kobayashi1·2, K. Kobayashi1, A. Suzuki1 and Y. Niwa1 |
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1Univ. Shizuok a, Shizuoka, Japan; 2Natl. Inst. Basic Biol., Okazak i, Japan |
4:30 p.m. |
Pathways for Carbohydrates Metabolism and Anoxia Tolerance in Gereal Seeds |
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Pierdomenico Perata1·2, L. Guglielminetti1, E. Loreti1, J. Yamaguchi2 and A. Alpi1 |
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1University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; 2Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan |
6:00 p.m. |
DINNER |
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Thursday Morning, February 27, 1997 |
Session VII-Regulation of Seed Germination |
Chairpersons: Tomoyuki Yamaya and Michel Caboche |
9:00 a.m. |
Molecu lar Basis for the Divergent ADP Glucose Phrophosphory lases in Barley: Expression of cDNA in a Hete rologous System |
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Leszek A. Kleezkowski, C. Luo, A. Dejardin and P. Villand |
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Umea Univers ity, Umea, Sweden |
9:30 a.m. |
Physio logical Functions of the Vacuolar H+ -Phrophosphatase, Aquapor in and Ca2+ Active Transport System in Seedlings |
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Masayoshi Maes hima, Y. Nakanishi, T. Higuchi and H. Ueoka |
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Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan |
10:00 a.m. |
An alysis of P hysiological Processes Involved in Seed Germination |
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L. Lepiniec, B. Dubr eucq, P. Gr appin, M. Jullien, S. Maugenest, A.M. Lescure, A. Mar ion- Poll, E. Marin, Michel Caboche |
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INRA Versailles, France |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 a.m. |
Sugar Sensing and α-Amylase Gene Repression in Rice Embryos |
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T. Umemura2, P. Perata1, Y. Futsuhara2 and Junji Yamaguchi1 |
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1Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan ; 2Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan |
11:30 a.m. |
Spatial and Tempora l Control of Life and Death in Germinating Barley |
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Mei Wang, B. J. Oppedijk, G. Lamers, D. N.G. Geer lings, M. P.M. Caspers and B. van Duijn |
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Leiden University/ Netherlands organization for Applied Research, Leiden, The Netherlands |
11:30 a.m. |
General Discussion |
12:00 a.m. |
Closing Remarks- Mikio Nishimura |