International Congress of Plant Physiology and Indo-U.S. Workshop on Interfacing Biotechnology and Crop Stress, New Delhi, India, Feb. 15-25, 1988, Award in Indian Currency

描述：该项目为美国代表团出席国际植物生理学大会提供部分支持，随后将举行印度-美国关于生物技术应用于作物胁迫问题的研讨会。大会包括四个专题：作物产量的生理基础，环境胁迫，营养胁迫，收获前和收获后的生理和生物化学。研讨会的目的是将合作项目的重点放在克服对作物生产力的生理限制上，特别是那些与寒冷气候、干旱土地或盐碱条件有关的限制。范围：此次大会的美国与会者，其中13人将在该项目下得到支持，他们是大会特定领域的知名科学家，即植物生理学、作物生产和生物技术。其他演讲者将来自加拿大、澳大利亚和印度。印度植物科学家和生物技术专家在提高农业产量方面取得了重大成功，但印度仍然对抗击干旱的破坏性影响以及在边际土地和不利天气条件下扩大耕作感兴趣。这同样适用于美国的某些地区以及许多发展中国家。大会和研讨会将提供一个交流信息的论坛，并突出可能产生重大适用成果的具体研究领域。这些会议极有可能增加研究合作。

Description: This project provides partial support for a U.S. delegation to attend an international congress on plant physiology to be followed by an Indo-U.S. Workshop on the application of biotechnology to problems of crop stress. The congress includes four symposium topics: physiological basis of crop yield, environmental stress, nutritional stress, and preharvest and post harvest physiology and biochemistry. The workshop's aim is to focus cooperative projects on overcoming physiological constraints to crop productivity, especially those that are related to cold climate, arid lands or under saline conditions. Scope: The U.S. participants in the Congress, of whom 13 are to be supported under this project, are well known scientists in the specific areas of the conference, namely plant physiology, crop production and biotechnology. Other speakers will come from Canada, Australia as will as India. Indian plant scientists and biotechnologists have accomplished major successes in improving their agricultural output, but there is still great interest in India in combating the devastating effects of droughts, and in expanding farming to marginal land and adverse weather conditions. The same applies to certain region in the U.S. as well as in many developing countries. The congress and the workshop will provide a forum for the exchange of information and highlight specific research areas likely to produce significant applicable results. There is strong likelihood of increased research collaboration as a result of these meetings.