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CarboSource Services was created
through the National Science Foundation and the efforts of K.Keegstra(PI), D.Mohnen(Co-PI),
and a Steering Committee (SC) comprised of like minded scientists, to become
part of the Plant Cell Wall
Biosynthesis Research Network.
Plant Cell Wall Biosynthesis Research Network Objectives
1. Create and maintain a web site to serve as an information
resource for researchers studying
plant cell wall biosynthesis.
2. Coordinate and partially support the acquisition of
substrates needed for polysaccharide
biosynthesis as well as for other enzymes involved
in the overall process of plant cell wall
biosynthesis.
3. Develop a mechanism for the exchange of graduate students and
postdoctoral researchers
between laboratories that use different techniques
to study plant cell wall biosynthesis.
4. Organize and provide partial support for small
workshop-symposia to develop and define
the goals and direction for wall biosynthesis
research for the next decade.
5. Establish a group that will suggest nomenclature rules for
the naming of authentic plant cell
wall biosynthetic genes and mutants.
Steering Committee Members
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K.G. Keegstra
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PI
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MSU-DOE Plant Research Lab
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D. Mohnen
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Co-PI
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UGA Complex
Carbohydrate Research
Center
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T. Bacic
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SC
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The University
of Melbourne
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D. Cosgrove
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SC
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Penn State University
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H. Höfte
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SC
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Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Versailles
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C. Somerville
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SC
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Carnegie Institiute of
Washington
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M. Tierney
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SC
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University of Vermont
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D. Delmer
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SC
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Past member; The Rockefeller Foundation
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