Session 10: Plant-Microbe Interactions Sponsored by Monsanto
Tuesday, July 22, 2014: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Regency Ballroom D, Second Floor (St. Louis Hyatt Regency at the Arch)
Convener:
Paul L. Skatrud - Monsanto, Chesterfield, MO
Co-Convener:
Gary Stacey - National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, Columbia, MO
The interactions between microbes and plants can be extremely beneficial, neutral, or lethal to the plant depending upon the combination of microbe and plant. This session will consider the complex interplay that occurs during plant-microbe interactions. We will explore how plants discern microbial friend from foe, engage protective mechanisms, interact to produce mutual benefit, as well as emerging information on the influence of the plant microbiome on plant health and growth.


8:00 AM
S53
Drivers of plant microbial community composition
Susannah G. Tringe1, Devin Coleman-Derr1, Scott Clingenpeel1, Ruth Ley2 and Jeffery Dangl3, (1)Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, (2)Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, (3)Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
8:30 AM
S54
Leveraging radiotracers in the model grass, Setaria viridis, to unravel the physiological and metabolic basis for biological nitrogen uptake via associative N­2-fixing rhizobacteria
Richard A. Ferrieri1, Vânia C.S. Pankievicz2, Fernanda P. Amaral3, Karina F. D. N. Santos2, Beverly Agtuca4, Youwen Xu1, Michael J. Schueller1, Ana Carolina M. Arisi3, Maria. B.R. Steffens2, Emanuel M. de Souza2, Fábio O. Pedrosa2 and Gary Stacey5, (1)Biosciences, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, (2)Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil, (3)Department of Science and Food Technology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, (4)Department of Environmental Biology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, (5)Divisions of Plant Sciences & Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
9:00 AM
S55
SMALL RNA regulators play a BIG role in plant-pathogen interactions
Hailing Jin, Plant Pathology & Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, CA
10:00 AM
S56
How biotrophic smut fungi manage to colonize plants
Regine Kahmann, Organismic Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
10:30 AM
S57
Nitrogen metabolism and transport in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
Yair Schacher-Hill, Taghleb Aldeeb and Chunjie Tian, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
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