报告题目：The phytomicrobiome and crop productivity（植物微生物群落与作物生产）

报告摘要：Over the last 32 years research at McGill University in Montreal, Canada has showed that members of the phytomicrobiome and the associated plant communicate with each other through the exchange of signal compound.  These compounds act as the hormones of the holobiont and are effective at very low concentrations.  The two focused on this in this presentation improve the resistance of crop plants to abiotic stresses (salt, drought, heat, cold) and also to disease.  These have been commercialized and are now being deployed over very large areas of agricultural crop land (on the order of 100 million ha) world wide.  

报 告 人：Prof. Donald L. Smith

单位： Director, McGill Network for Innovation in Biofuels and Bioproducts

Director, Eastern Canadian Oilseeds Development Initiative

Professor，Plant Science Department, McGill University, Canada

麦吉尔大学生物燃料与生物工程创新网络主任

加拿大东部油籽开发计划主任

加拿大麦吉尔大学植物科学系教授

时间： 2017年10月23日9:30

报告地点：文汇路校区国际合作楼附二楼学术报告厅

主办单位： 农业科技发展研究院（国际联合实验室）