Energy costs of mechanisms for salinity tolerance in crop plants: a cost-benefit analysis
Programme
08:15: Bus leaves Majestic Roof Garden Hotel for the Waite Campus each day
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Tuesday 10th |
Speaker |
Draft title |
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09:00 |
Steve Tyerman |
Aims of the workshop and the rationale for focussing on the energy costs of salt tolerance |
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09:30 |
Sergey Shabala |
Vacuolar sodium sequestration: costs and mechanisms |
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10:00 |
Stuart Roy |
Energy provided by H+PPases |
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10:30 Morning break |
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11:00 |
Bronwyn Barkla |
Membrane lipids and vacuolar Na+ transport |
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11:30 |
Mark Tester |
Active and passive ion transport |
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12:00 |
Michelle Watt |
Water and ion movement in roots: estimation of pathways based on anatomy |
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12:30 |
Tomoaki Horie |
Control of tissue Na+ concentrations upon salinity stress |
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13:00 Lunch |
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14:00 |
Caitlin Byrt |
Budgeting ATP for root Na+ transport |
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14:30 |
Francisco Rubio |
K+ uptake by plant roots under salt stress |
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15:00 |
Zhonghua Chen |
Modelling ion homeostasis in plant cells |
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15:30 Afternoon break |
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16:00 |
Darren Plett & Herbert Kronzucker |
Unidirectional Na+ fluxes: measurement and costs |
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16:20 |
Kylie Foster & Stan Miklavcic |
Quantitative modelling of the energy cost of Na+ exclusion, transport and storage in plant roots under salt stress |
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17:00 Drinks |
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18:30 Dinner al fresco |
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19:30 Bus departs for Majestic Hotel |
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Wednesday 11th |
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09:00 |
Rana Munns |
Osmotic adjustment and limitations to growth |
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09:30 |
Tim Colmer |
Energetics of acclimation to salinity in anoxic rice seedlings |
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10:00 |
Kathleen Soole & David Day |
Alternative pathway of respiration: involvement in salinity stress |
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10:30 Morning break |
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11:00 |
Nicolas Taylor |
Mitochondria are critical for survival but also a target of inhibition/damage during salinity exposure |
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11:30 |
Jayakumar Bose |
From an energy perspective, how do chloroplasts of halophytes optimise photosynthesis? |
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12:00 |
Matt Gilliham |
What are the phosphorylation costs of regulating salt transport at high salinity, and are these significant to the total costs of salinity tolerance? |
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12:30 Lunch |
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13:30 |
Zhengyu Wen |
Energy cost of nitrate uptake/assimilation and nitrate alleviation on chloride toxicity |
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13:50 |
Steffi Wege |
Chloride and Nitrate: Competition or complementation? |
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14:10 |
Sam Henderson |
Cost of good and poor Na+ exclusion: grapevine as a case study |
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14:30 |
Maki Katsuhara |
Regulation of water transport and Na+ influx |
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15:00 Afternoon break |
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15:30 |
Wieland Fricke |
Night-time transpiration |
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16:00 |
Lars Wegner |
A putative Na+-driven water pump mechanism in roots: Mechanistic and thermodynamic considerations |
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16:30 |
General discussion | Organise working groups for Thursday | |
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17:00 Drinks |
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17:45 Bus departs for Majestic Hotel |
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19:00 Dinner at Jasmin Indian Restaurant, Hindmarsh Square (walk from hotel) |
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Thursday 12th |
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09:00 |
Discussion groups to structure the Meeting report for New Phytologist |
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10:30 Morning break |
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11:15 |
Tour of the Plant Accelerator |
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11:45 |
Tour of Waite Winery |
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12:15 Bus departs for the Adelaide Hills and lunch at ArtWine |
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12:45 |
Arrive at ArtWine for wine tasting |
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13:00 Lunch |
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14:30 Bus departs ArtWine |
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15:00 Arrive at Waite Campus |
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15:15 Bus departs for Majestic Hotel and airport |
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Close of meeting |
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Discussants: Borjana Arsova, Helen Bramley, Tracey Cuin, Colin Jenkins, Brent Kaiser, Megan Shelden