The Annual Beltsville Symposium serves as a forum for presenting recent
developments in basic research that contribute solutions to agricultural
problems. The eleventh in this series focuses on instrumentation tech-
niques which provide powerful new research tools. These tools will
provide information that can lead to a better understanding of
biological and physical processes critical to the solution of today's
agricultural problems. The tools discussed include isotope technology,
separation techniques, microscopy, electro-magnetic spectroscopy,
resonance and mass spectrometry and microcomputers. This Symposium
brought together scientists who are at the forefront of the development
of many of these tools and those who are applying them to problems
directly related to agricultural research. WALDEMAR KLASSEN, Director
Beltsville Area VII CONTRIBUTORS AND THEIR AFFILIATIONS Norman G.
Anderson Youhanna Fares Proteus Technologies, Inc. Phytokinetics Inc.
Rockville, MD 20852 College Station, TX 77840 U.S.A. U.S.A. Cherie L.
Fisk Edwin D. Becker Office of Research Services Office of Research
Services NIH NIH Bethesda, MD 20892 Bethesda, MD 20892 U.S.A. U.S.A.
Klaus Biemann John D. Goeschl Phytokinetics, Ltd. Department of
Chemistry College Station, TX 77840 Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 U.S.A. U.S.A. R.J. Griesbach Florist and
Nursery Crops Laboratory B.A. Bolton Development Quality Laboratory
Horticultural Science Institute Agricultural Research Service USDA
Western Regional Research Center Beltsville, MD 20705 Agricultural
Research Service USDA U.S.A. Albany, CA 94710 U.S.A.
