报告名称：The Salicylic Acid Signaling Pathway in Plant Defense Responses
    报告人：牟中林博士 (Assistant Professor， University of Florida)
    报告时间：2008年4月14日上午10:00
    报告地点：实验楼报告厅

    报告人介绍：

    General area: Plant defense responses
    My laboratory studies the mechanisms plants evolved to defend themselves against microbial pathogens. Particular interest is focused on a specific mechanism known as systemic acquired resistance (SAR). SAR is a secondary defense response, which is induced by a primary infection and confers plants long-lasting resistance to a broad spectrum of pathogens. The signal transduction in SAR is one of the frontiers of plant research. We perform genetic screens in Arabidopsis thaliana to identify new components in the SAR signal transduction pathway. We use genetic, molecular, biochemical, and genomic approaches to investigate the fundamental aspects of plant defense responses.

    论文代表作(Selected Publications)

    1.Xudong Zhang, Yuqing Xiong, Christopher DeFraia, Eric Schmelz and Zhonglin Mou (2008). The Arabidopsis MAP kinase kinase 7: A crosstalk point between auxin signaling and defense responses? Plant Signaling & Behavior，onlione (应邀)
    2. Xudong Zhang, Ya Dai, Yuqing Xiong, Christopher DeFraia, Jiayang Li, Xinnian Dong, Zhonglin Mou (2007). Overexpression of Arabidopsis MAP kinase kinase 7 leads to activation of plant basal and systemic acquired resistance, The Plant Journal 52: 1066-1079.
    3.Dai Y, Wang H, Li B, Huang J, Liu X, Zhou Y, Mou Z, Li J (2006). Increased Expression of MAPKK7 causes deficiency in polar auxin transport and leads to plant architectural abnormality in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 18: 308-320.
    4.Mou, Z., Fan, W. and Dong, X. (2003). Inducers of plant systemic acquired resistance regulate NPR1 function through redox changes. Cell 113, 935-944.
    5.Mou, Z., Wang, X., Fu, Z., Dai, Y., Han, C., Ouyang, J., Bao, F., Hu, Y. and Li, J. (2002). Silencing of phosphoethanolamine N-methyltransferase results in temperature-sensitive male sterility and salt hypersensitivity in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 14, 2031-2043.
    6.Mou, Z., He, Y., Dai, Y., Liu, X. and Li, J. (2000). Deficiency in fatty acid synthase leads to premature cell death and dramatic alterations in plant morphology. Plant Cell 12, 405-417.

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