Sunday, December 9, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Royal Palm Salon Six, Royal Palm Ballroom, First Floor (Town & Country)

Symposium: Making Connections Between Traditional and New Approaches for Host Plant Resistance Research

Organizer(s): Xinzhi Ni, xinzhi.ni@ars.usda.gov
Tulio Macedo, tmacedo@montana.edu
Robert K. D. Peterson, bpeterson@montana.edu
1:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
1:35 PM0210Resistant and susceptible responses of cereals to aphid feeding
Sharron Quisenberry, sharronq@vt.edu, Xinzhi Ni, xinzhi.ni@ars.usda.gov
1:55 PM0211Finding resistance through susceptibility: Lessons to be learned from gene expression in susceptible plants
C. Micheal Smith, cmsmith@ksu.edu
2:15 PM 0212Plant-insect interactions: Herbivore responses to pest-resistant allelochemicals
Xianchun Li, lxc@cals.arizona.edu
2:35 PM0213Synergism of traditional and molecular approaches for corn rootworm resistance and susceptibility research
Martin Bohn, mbohn@uiuc.edu
2:55 PM 0214Resistance to the western chinch bug: Traditional and molecular host plant resistance approaches
Thomas E. Eickhoff, teickhoff2@unl.edu, Tiffany Heng-Moss, thengmoss2@unl.edu, Fred Baxendale, fbaxendale1@unl.edu, Paul Twigg, twiggp@unk.edu, Gautam Sarath, gsarath1@unl.edu
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM0215Deciphering the plant's response to factors of herbivory
Richard Musser, ro-musser@wiu.edu
3:50 PM0216Induced susceptibility versus induced resistance: Multiple molecular mechanisms of R gene-mediated plant defense against hessian fly attack
Ming-Shun Chen, mchen@ksu.edu
4:10 PM0218Coupling antixenosis and antibiosis in pest management using the wheat stem sawfly as a model system
David K. Weaver, weaver@montana.edu, Kevin J. Delaney, kevin.delaney1@montana.edu
4:30 PM 0217Responses of wheat to wheat stem sawfly injury: Connecting physiological responses to host resistance approaches
Tulio Macedo, tmacedo@montana.edu, Robert K. D. Peterson, bpeterson@montana.edu, David K. Weaver, weaver@montana.edu
4:50 PM0219Maize resistance and susceptibility to multiple ear-damaging pests: Progress and prospects
Xinzhi Ni, xni@tifton.usda.gov, Wenwei Xu, we-xu@tamu.edu, Matthew D. Krakowsky, mkrakowsky@tifton.usda.gov, G. David Buntin, gbuntin@griffin.uga.edu
5:10 PMDiscussion

See more of Member Symposia
See more of The 2007 ESA Annual Meeting, December 9-12, 2007