Session: Are Plant Resistance to Insects and Plant Resistance to Microbes Really so Different? (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Are Plant Resistance to Insects and Plant Resistance to Microbes Really so Different?

Wednesday, December 16, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:00 AM

Room 206, Second Floor (Convention Center)

Organizers:

Marion Harris
Jeffrey J. Stuart

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

Marion Harris, North Dakota State University

8:05 AM

The new paradigm on how plants recognize microbial pathogens: overlap with resistance to insects?

Andrew Bent, University of Wisconsin

8:40 AM

Plant parasitic nematodes: pathogens or pests?

Valerie Williamson, University of California-Davis

9:15 AM

Current trends in plant resistance to insects

Jack Schultz, University of Missouri

9:50 AM

Break

10:00 AM

Genomic and metabolic signatures of plant response to an insect herbivore and bacterial pathogen

Heidi Appel, University of Missouri; Jack Schultz, University of Missouri; Ramesh Raina, Syracuse University; A. Daniel Jones, Michigan State University

10:30 AM

Gall midges as pathogens

Jeffrey J. Stuart, Purdue University

11:00 AM

Concluding Remarks

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