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团队参加将于1994年12月12-16日在巴基斯坦卡拉奇大学举行的“耐高盐植物国际研讨会”的联合研讨会。全体讲座的专题包括：干旱地区盐生植物的利用；盐生植物克服盐碱的机制；盐生植物的种群生物学；红树林的遗传多样性；红树林的耐盐机制；作为作物改良技术的盐生植物的遗传转化；湖泊和沿海沙丘植物品种的耐盐性；草本盐生植物的耐盐机制；以及种子库生态学。研讨会还将包括来自大约30个国家的提交的论文。研讨会结束后，审阅论文的会议记录和其他报告将发表，并将在美国、巴基斯坦和其他国家提供。范围：该项目支持在一个对包括美国和巴基斯坦在内的许多拥有大型灌溉系统的国家具有重要意义的领域举行研讨会。这一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20年里在耐盐植物品种的实验中取得了重大进展，他们将能够分享他们在该领域的见解。来自美国、英国、德国和澳大利亚的与会者将提供导致植物品种达到所需耐盐性的基本机制方面的专业知识。专题讨论会期间的信息交流应有助于更好地协作和整合成果，并有可能在全世界了解如何提高受盐碱地或边际土地上的作物产量方面取得重大进展。***

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. ***