International Association of Sexual Plant Reproduction Research (IASPRR)

The purpose of the IASPRR is to stimulate scientific research in the field of plant reproduction and related subjects, and to promote the application of the results of such research in agriculture and forestry. The IASPRR was founded on 6 July 1990 in Leningrad during the XI Congress on Sexual Plant Reproduction. The Association promotes contact between scientists undertaking research in sexual plant reproduction and related subjects through conferences, congresses, workshops, databases, and by the exchange of information concerning the entire range of activities in the field of plant sexual reproduction research. The IASPRR is affiliated with the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS).

Officers: (2010-2014)

President (2010-2014):
Thomas Dresselhaus (Regensburg, Germany)
Vice President (2010-2014):
Tetsuya Higashiyama (Nagoya, Japan)
Past President (2010-2014):
Scott Russell (Norman, USA)
Secretary-General (2010-2014):
Noni Franklin-Tong (Birmingham, UK)
Treasurer (2010-2014):
Stefanie Sprunck (Regensburg, Germany)
Members of Executive Council (2010-2014):
Maria Helena Goldman (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Gary Drews (Salt Lake City, USA)

More Information is available about:

• IASPRR Congresses (held in even-numbered years):
  • Future Meeting:
    • Somewhere on a beach, Australia, February, 2012
    • Porto, Portugal, 2014
  • Past Meetings:
    • 21st ICSPR, Bristol, UK, 2-6 August 2010
      • Conference Photo taken 2 August 2010: [Medium Format 260K] [Large Format 600KB] [Native Format 7.7 MB]
      • Picasa link to other images of the Bristol ICSPR
      • Awards at the 21st IASPRR Congress
      • Congress Overview of Speakers at start of Congress (in 235 KB PDF)
      • Congress Abstracts and Full Program (~3.1 MB PDF) and Cover (1 MB PDF)
      • Flower Power in the 21st Century - a look at sexual plant reproduction for the public, supported by BBSRC (big file, ~7.2 MB)
      • Minutes of Tenth General Assembly, August 6, 2010: [pending]
      • Website: http://www.sebiology.org/management/meetings/ICSPR/SexualPlantReproduction.html
    • 20th ICSPR, Brazil, 4-8 August 2008
      • We were pleased to hold our first conference in South America in Brasilia, the modern and beautiful capital of Brazil
      • Conference Photo taken 6 August 2008: [Medium Format 240K] [Large Format 820KB]
      • Awards at the 20th IASPRR Congress
      • Congress Overview of Speakers at start of Congress (in 340 KB PDF)
      • Congress Abstracts and Full Program (in ~1 MB PDF)
      • Minutes of Ninth General Assembly, August 8, 2008, in HTML or WORD format
      • Website: http://www.cenargen.embrapa.br/XXICSPR/ - has images (if you are a member or participant, please ask for password by email)
  • Past, Past Meetings
  
   
• Membership Renewal / New Memberships
  • An Invitation to Join the IASPRR
  • Mail-in Membership Form
  • *Online payment of dues is no longer available.
• Constitution and Bylaws of the IASPRR
   
• Sexual Plant Reproduction - A journal published by Springer-Verlag devoted to cellular and molecular aspects of plant sexual reproduction [access]
  • Information about Sexual Plant Reproduction:
    • Indexed in Pubmed
    • Published rapidly online with a stable, citable DOI (digital object identifier) number
    • Free color in the online version! Submit illustrations in color & view in color on PDF. (Print color does cost money)
    • Springer Open Choice - full open access in exchange for payment of a basic fee ('article processing charge')
    • Available also via e-mail LINK Alert upon publication
    • Instructions for Authors are online. More at the manuscript submission site (upon login)
    • Editorial Board
    • Articles from volume 1 to the present are available online at the Sexual Plant Reproduction web site
    • Manuscript Central manuscript submission site
  • Most recent Table of Contents at IASPRR site (v23n3 added 29 August 2010) and at the SPR site
  • Tables of Contents
  • Special personal subscription rates: Members of the International Association of Sexual Plant Reproduction Research (IASPRR) are entitled to a greatly reduced subscription rate (plus carriage charges). The price for the subscriptions by members is substantially discounted, even after adding carriage charges (for overseas subscribers this may add 25%). Click here for further information about special SPR subscription rates.
  
   
• Announcement
  • NSF Research Coordination Network
    A Research Coordination Network (RCN) on Integrative Pollen Biology will aim to provide a coordinated forum for the expanding pollen community to work together synergistically, exchange information, share tools and resources and discuss working models. A short course on basic pollen research methods will provide a head start to establish a variety of research methods specialized for pollen study. One of the major goals of the RCN will be to extract information stored in multiple public and private databases, share it and work in collaborative groups in order to expedite and facilitate research advances in the next decade. The RCN will:
    • Establish a "Wiki pollen" site to facilitate integration of biochemical, physiological and cellular data obtained from different laboratories towards a pilot effort in modeling pollen tube growth.
    • Establish Summer Internships for graduate students to bridge training at the interface of biology and computer science
    • Support travel subsidies for collaborative projects
    • Support travel subsidies for diversity enhancement
    • Support High School Teacher Summer Interns
    
    A total of 15 collaboration- and diversity-enhancement projects and one high school teacher summer internship are open for application in the first award year.
    The website location is http://www.pollennetwork.org/
  
   
• Links to other sites on the Internet:
  • Educational Links:
    • Introductory level:
      • Why Do Plants Have Flowers - An explanation of sexual reproduction in plants for kids and Worksheet
    • Intermediate level:
      • Overview:
        • FLOWERING PLANT REPRODUCTION: Flower Structure
        • FLOWERING PLANT REPRODUCTION: Fertilization and Fruits
      • Detailed sites:
        • Pollination Adaptations
        • Flower Morphology
        • Honeybee Biology
        • Fruit Growth and Ripening
        • Fruit Growth and Fruit Types
        • Seeds and Fruits
        • Seeds and Seed Germination
        • Flower Structure
        • Pollen and Embryo Sac
    • Advanced level:
      • Deciphering molecular mechanisms of fertilization in seed plants - a *free* special issue of Sexual Plant Reproduction available online. Review papers on
        • synergids
        • attraction of pollen tubes
        • in vitro fertilization
        • control of fertilization
        • polyspermy barriers
        • zygote and embryo activation
        • male gamete genetic repertoire (all posted 14 March 2008)
      • Sexual Reproduction in Lily (Lilium) - pollen, embryo sac development and fertilization
      • Confocal Microscopy of Double Fertilization in Lily (Lilium) - stereorotation of sectioned material
      • In vitro Befruchtung mit isolierten Gameten von Angiospermen - In vitro fertilization with isolated gametes of angiosperms (in German)
      • Central cell fertilization and endosperm development in vitro - test tube endosperm
      • Three classical papers on double fertilization - historical literature from ~100 years ago
  • Research Links:
    • Bellagio Apomixis Declaration - result of the conference on "Designing a Research Strategy for Achieving Asexual Seed Production in Cereals" held at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Conference and Study Center (Italy), April 27th - May 1st, 1998 For information about apomixis:
      • What is apomixis?
      • Methods for Stabilizing and Controlling Apomixis
    • Apomixis Research in Europe
    • Australasian Pollination Ecologists Society
    • Pollination Links
    • Link to: PLANT-SIGNAL-TRANSDUCTION Newsgroup archives
    • Link to: bionet.plants Newsgroup archives
    • Botany-related WWW sites
    • Botany-related Usenet Newsgroups
    • Exploring Internet Resources - A general reference guide on the Internet
    • CIMMYT Home Page International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
    • Apomixis Research in Europe

Thanks for visiting our site....

This page is maintained by the Secretary of the IASPRR:

Prof Noni Franklin-Tong
School of Biosciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Phone: +44 (0)121 41 43702 Fax: +44 (0)121 41 45925 Email: V.E.Franklin-Tong@bham.ac.uk

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