Support for Young US Researchers to Attend the 18th Meeting of the International Plant Growth Substances Association

摘要请求支持年轻的研究生和博士后研究员参加将于2004年9月19日至24日在澳大利亚堪培拉举行的植物生长和发育国际会议。本次会议是由国际植物生长物质协会（IPGSA）主办的系列会议中的第18届。这些会议每三年举行一次，最近两次会议分别在东京幕张展览中心（1998年）和捷克共和国布尔诺（2001年）举行。植物激素调节生长和发育的几乎所有方面，从种子萌发开始，经过母体植物的生长，到花的发育和种子的形成，使植物的生命周期得以延续。这次重要的国际会议将向美国年轻的研究人员介绍这一令人兴奋的研究领域。会议包括全体会议和专题讨论会以及海报会议，研究人员展示他们最近的工作。该计划有望令人兴奋，并将刺激美国对植物生长调节剂的研究。这些分子长期以来一直被认为对美国农业很重要，我们对它们作用的细胞和分子基础的理解对于农业的长期可持续性至关重要。

ABSTRACTSupport is requested to allow young graduate students and post doctoral fellows to attend an international conference on plant growth and development to be held in Canberra, Australia from September 19-24, 2004. This conference is the 18th in a series of conferences sponsored by the International Plant Growth Substance Association (IPGSA). These meetings are held every three years and the last two were convened in Makuhari Messe, Tokyo (1998) and Brno, Czech Republic (2001). Plant hormones regulate almost all aspects of growth and development, beginning with seed germination through the growth of parent plant to the development of the flower and the formation of seeds that perpetuate the plant's life cycle. This important international meeting will introduce younger US investigators to this exciting area of research. The conference includes plenary sessions and symposia as well as poster sessions where investigators display their most recent work. The program promises to be exciting and will stimulate research on plant growth regulators in the USA. These molecules have long been established as important for U.S. agriculture, and our understanding of the cellular and molecular basis of their action is essential for the long-term sustainability of agriculture.