Symposium on High Salinity Tolerant Plants, Karachi, Pakistan, December 12-16, 1994

9413039 Ungar描述：该项目支持美国科学家小组参加将于1994年12月12日至16日在巴基斯坦卡拉奇的卡拉奇大学举行的“耐高盐植物国际研讨会”的联合研讨会。将在全体会议上提出的专题包括：在干旱地区使用盐生植物;盐生植物克服盐分的机制;盐生植物的种群生物学;红树林的遗传多样性;红树林耐盐性的机制;盐生植物的遗传转化作为改进作物的一种技术;沙丘植物的湖泊和沿海品种的耐盐性;草本盐生植物的耐盐性机制;和种子库生态。研讨会还将包括约30个国家提交的论文。评审论文和其他演讲的会议记录将在研讨会结束后出版，并将在美国，巴基斯坦和其他国家。适用范围：该项目支持在一个对许多拥有大型灌溉系统的国家（包括美国和巴基斯坦）至关重要的领域举办研讨会。该领域的研究结合了几个重要的科学学科，包括生物物理学，生物化学，遗传学以及工程和灌溉实践。来自巴基斯坦的科学家在过去二十年中在耐盐植物品种试验方面取得了重大进展，他们将能够分享他们在该领域的见解。来自美国和英国的参与者，德国和澳大利亚将提供有关使植物品种具有所需耐盐性的基本机制的专门知识。专题讨论会期间的信息交流应有助于更好地协作和成果整合，并可能在全世界范围内大大改善对如何提高受盐碱影响或边际土地作物产量的理解。***

9413039 Ungar Description: This project supports participation by a U.S. team of scientists in a joint seminar at the "International Symposium on High Salinity Tolerant Plants" which is to be held from December 12-16, 1994 at the University of Karachi, in Karachi, Pakistan. Topics to be presented at the plenary lectures include: the use of halophytes in arid zones; mechanisms used by halophytes for overcoming salinity; population biology of halophytes; genetic diversity in mangroves; mechanism of salinity tolerance in mangroves; genetic transformation of halopytes as a technique for improvement of crops; salt tolerance of lacustrine and coastal varieties of dune plants; mechanism of salt tolerance in herbaceous halophytes; and seed bank ecology. The symposium will also include submitted papers from some 30 countries. A proceedings of the refereed papers and other presentations will be published after the symposium and will be available in the U.S., Pakistan, and other countries. Scope: The project supports a symposium in an area of major importance to many countries that have large irrigation systems, including the U.S. and Pakistan. Research in this field combines several important scientific disciplines including biophysics, biochemistry, genetics, as well as engineering and irrigation practices. Scientists from Pakistan, who have made significant advances in experimenting with salinity-tolerant plant varieties in the last two decades, will be able to share their insight in the field. Participants from the U.S. and from the U.K., Germany and Australia will provide expertise in the basic mechanisms leading to the desired salinity-tolerance in plant varieties. The exchange of information during the symposium should lead to better collaboration and integration of results, and possibly to significant improvements, worldwide, in understanding how to increase crop yields in salt-affected or marginal lands. ***