NEW YORK AREA PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MEETING 2005
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The following abstracts have been submitted and will be presented at the meeting on January 15, 2005. If you would like to submit an abstract, please use our submission form. The list of abstracts will continue to be updated until January 7, as submissions are received. Please note that some non-standard characters may not appear correctly in the abstracts when viewed on this site. However, the abstracts will be distributed in full on the day of the meeting.


A NON-HOMOLOGOUS END JOINING PATHWAY FOR T-DNA INTEGRATION IN PLANT

Presenter: Jianxiong Li
Authors: Jianxiong Li, Manjusha Vaidya, Vitaly Citovsky and Tzvi Tzfira
Affiliations: Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5215

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BLUE LIGHT SIGNALING IN MOSS

Presenter: Edward B. Tucker
Authors: Edward B. Tucker, Michelle Lee, Shaan Alli, Vinoud Sookhdeo (1), Masamitsu Wada (2), Takato Imaizumi (3), Masahiro Kasahara (4), and Peter K. Hepler (5)
Affiliations: (1) Natural Science Department, Baruch College, City University of New York, USA; (2) Department of Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan; (3) Department of Cell Biology, Scripps Research Institute, CA, USA; (4) Gene Research Center, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan; (5) Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, USA

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EFFECTS OF ALLELIC VARIATION AT THE ARABIDOPSIS FLOWERING TIME LOCI FRI AND FLC: EXPERIMENTS WITH A RECOMBINANT INBRED POPULATION

Presenter: Hilary Callahan
Authors: Hilary Callahan, Natalie Dhanoolal, Sarah Israel, Angelica Patterson
Affiliations: Department of Biological Sciences, Barnard College, Columbia University

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Genetic Characterization of Mutants of Brassica oleracea

Presenter: Ed Himelblau
Authors: Ed Himelblau, Kelly Buono, Colleen Bizzell, Laurie Metzer, Robert Vogelzang, Thomas Osborn, Richard M. Amasino
Affiliations: Southampton College, Long Island Universtiy, Southampton, NY 11968

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706

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HEN1 is a microRNA methyltransferase and methylates the 3í end of microRNAs in Arabidopsis

Presenter: Zhiyong Yang
Authors: Zhiyong Yang, Junjie Li and Xuemei Chen
Affiliations: Waksman Institute, Rutgers University

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IDENTIFICATION OF A TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSOR INVOLVED IN PLANT MORPHOGENESIS FROM ARABIDOPSIS

Presenter: A.Krichevsky
Authors: Alexander Krichevsky, Helen Gutgarts, Guo-Wei Tian, T. Tzfira and Vitaly Citovsky.
Affiliations: Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5215

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Identifying Sinorhizobium meliloti symbiosis genes by functional complementation screening of a genomic promoter library

Presenter: Xue-Song Zhang
Authors: Xue-Song Zhang and Hai-Ping Cheng
Affiliations: Lehman College, CUNY

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MOLECULAR POPULATION GENETICS OF THE ARABIDOPSIS CLAVATA GENES

Presenter: Karin Isaacson
Authors: Karin Isaacson, Dana Greenfield, Varuni Prabhakar, Jaime Wesker, Kristen Shepard
Affiliations: Department of Biological Sciences, Barnard College

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PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS : A MODEL FOR PLANT PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH AND DEFENSE RESPONSES

Presenter: Hemalatha Saidasan
Authors: Hemalatha Saidasan1 and Michael A. Lawton1,2
Affiliations: 1Biotechnology Center for Agriculture and the Environment;
2Department of Plant Biology and Plant Pathology, Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520


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Regulation of Carotenoid Accumulation by a Novel Gene Identified in Cauliflower

Presenter: Li Li
Authors: Li Li
Affiliations: Cornell University
US Plant, Soil and Nutrition Laboratory

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Role of Arabidopsis DDB1 in Regulated Protein Degradation and Photomorphogenesis

Presenter: Elizabeth Strickland
Authors: Elizabeth Strickland and Xing Wang Deng
Affiliations: Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

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STAY-GREEN Gene controlling Chlorophyll Degradation during Leaf Senescence

Presenter: Nam-Chon Paek
Authors: Jae-Woong Yu, So-Yeon Park, Jinjie Li, Jong-Sung Park, Soo-Cheul Yoo, Hee-Jong Koh & Nam-Chon Paek
Affiliations: Department of Plant Science, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Korea

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The green alga Dunaliella: How many species exist in this genus?

Presenter: Duc Tran
Authors: Duc Tran, Donna Dei-Baning, Juergen E.W. Polle
Affiliations: BROOKLYN COLLEGE of the CITY UNIVERSITY of NEW YORK, Department of Biology, 2900 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA

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THE ROLE OF BACTERIAL EXOR PROTEIN IN SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI-ALFALFA SYMBIOSIS

Presenter: Hai-Yang Lu
Authors: Hai-Yang Lu and Hai-Ping Cheng
Affiliations: Biology, Lehman College, CUNY, Bronx, NY10468

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TRANSIENT CRE EXPRESSION FOR EXCISION OF PLASTID MARKER GENES

Presenter: Kerry A. Lutz
Authors: Kerry A. Lutz, Massimo H. Bosacchi and Pal Maliga
Affiliations: Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, 190 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020, U.S.A.

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