The ISPA2010 Conference will include plenary lectures and talks selected from the abstracts submitted. The Sessions will be dedicated to metabolic and morphological adaptation to low oxygen, signaling and molecular biology, ecology and ecophysiology, breeding for tolerance to waterlogging, applied aspects of plant anaerobiosis such as energy production in algae and post-harvest physiology.

June 20 (Sunday)

June 21 (Monday)

Session 1. Role of plant hormones in flooding and low oxygen responses

• 9.00 Conference opening

• 9.15 Mike Jackson (University of Bristol, UK) : Adaptation to flooding and submergence: the evolving hormone story
• 9.45 Rens Voesenek (University of Utrecht, NL): Submergence-induced shoot elongation in Rumex palustris: the hormonal regulation of ethylene response factors
• 10.15 Margret Sauter (University of Kiel, D): Ethylene as a central regulator of hypoxia adaptation

• 11.20 Talk selected from the abstracts
• 11.40 Talk selected from the abstracts
• 12.00 Talk selected from the abstracts

Session 2. Ecophysiology of plant adaptation to submergence  

• 15.00 Eric Visser (Radboud Univ Nijmegen, NL): Inter-population variation in flooding-induced petiole elongation in Rumex palustris: a tool for unravelling signal transduction and functional significance?
• 15.30 Ole Pedersen (University of Copenhagen): Internal O₂ dynamics and sources of inorganic carbon in an ephemeral wetland plants, Isoetes australis
• 16.00 Kimiharu Ishizawa (Miyagi University, JP): pH regulation of Potamogeton cells under anoxic conditions

• 17.00 Leon Lamers (Radboud Univ Nijmegen, NL): Subterranean blues: linking anaerobic biogeochemistry to plant physiology
• 17.30 Ana Herrera (Central University of Venezuela): The peculiar igapó of the Mapire river

• 18.00 Talk selected from the abstracts
• 18.20 Talk selected from the abstracts
• 18.40 Talk selected from the abstracts

June 22 (Tuesday)

Session 3. Low-oxygen signalling

• 9.00 Julia Bailey-Serres (University of Riverside, USA): Transcriptional and translational regulatory networks controlling low oxygen stress responses
• 9.30 Pierdomenico Perata (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, I): Arabidopsis USP1 modulates plant development and the anaerobic response
• 10.00 Kurt Fagerstedt (Univ Helsinki, FI): Nitric oxide signaling in roots under oxygen deprivation

• 11.00 Robert Hill (University of Manitoba, Canada): Hemoglobin and Plant Anaerobiosis: The Road Ahead

• 11.30  Talk selected from the abstracts
• 11.50  Talk selected from the abstracts
• 12.10  Talk selected from the abstracts

Session 4. Low-oxygen metabolism

• 15.00 Arthur Grossman (Carnegie Institution for Science, USA): The use of mutants to examine anaerobic metabolism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
• 15.30 Joost Van Dongen (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, D): Regulation of respiratory metabolism at low oxygen concentrations
• 16.00 Peter Geigenberger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, D): Proactive regulation of plant metabolism in response to changes in internal oxygen concentrations

• 17.00 Talk selected from the abstracts
• 17.20 Talk selected from the abstracts
• 17.40 Talk selected from the abstracts

June 23 (Wednesday)

Session 5. Breeding for flooding and waterlogging tolerance in rice and other crops: from loci to the field

• 9.00 Takeshi Fukao (University of Riverside, USA): Molecular functions of the submergence tolerance regulator Sub1A in rice
• 9.30 Motoyuki Ashikari: (Nagoya University, JP) How do rice plants adapt to deepwater?
• 10.00 Endang Septiningsih (IRRI, Philippines): Genetic dissection of tolerance to anaerobic germination and submergence in rice

• 11.00 Brian Atwell (Macquarie University, Australia) Mechanism of tolerance to anoxia in rice coleoptiles: importance of maintenance of membrane potential
• 11.20 Talk selected from the abstracts
• 11.40 Talk selected from the abstracts

• 15.00 James Whelan (University of Western Australia): Definition of Aerobic and Anaerobic responses in rice and overlap with abiotic stress responses
• 15.30 Abdelagi Ismail (Central Rice Research Institute, India): Title to be defined

June 24 (Thursday)

Session 7. Morphological and anatomical adaptation to flooding

• 9.00 Bill Armstrong (University of Hull, UK and University of Western Australia): Experimental and modelling evidence contradicts the idea of significant down-regulation of respiratory rates in plant tissues at internal O2 concentrations above the COP for cytochrome oxidase
• 9.30 Mikio Nakazono (University of Tokyo, JP): Understanding the mechanism of aerenchyma formation using laser microdissection
• 10.00 Jean Armstrong (University of Hull, UK and University of Western Australia):  Reasons for the presence and absence of pressurized (convective) gas-flow in the genus Equisetum
  

• 11.00 Brian Sorrell (National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, NZ): Prolific phellem and aerenchyma development in response to flooding in the tropical legume Sesbania sesban

• 11.30 Talk selected from the abstracts
• 11.50 Talk selected from the abstracts

Session 8. Interaction of flooding with other abiotic stresses

• 15.00 Tim Colmer (Univ Western Australia): Combined salinity and waterlogging: importance, physiological responses and sources of tolerance for cereal improvement
• 15.30 Sergy Shabala (University of Tasmania, AU): Secondary metabolite toxicity and plant breeding for waterlogging tolerance

• 16.00 Talk selected from the abstracts

• 17.00 Talk selected from the abstracts
• 17.20 Talk selected from the abstracts
• 17.40 Talk selected from the abstracts

 June 25 (Friday)