2007 Gordon Research Conference - Temperature Stress in Plants; Ventura, CA; January 21-26, 2007

20世纪遗传学、生物化学和植物生理学等基础科学的进步导致全球农业生产力的显著提高。尽管如此，仍有超过8亿人遭受饥饿或营养不良(美国国家科学院，2000年)。人口急剧增长、耕地城市化、新出现的害虫和病原体带来的压力越来越大、供水减少、全球变暖和土壤盐碱化是发展充足和可持续粮食供应的世界性挑战。该项目请求提供支持，将来自学术界、政府和工业界的100-120名各级科学家聚集在一起，分享有关植物对温度反应的分子、遗传和生化基础的新数据。温度是影响植物建立、生长和繁殖的主要环境变量，它决定了物种在自然界的分布、适宜农业的面积和作物产量。学员将促进我们对植物如何感知和响应温度的基本理解，定义植物在温度胁迫下遭受的伤害类型，确定胁迫保护机制及其调控途径，并讨论提高植物温度胁迫耐受性的育种和转基因方法。这一领域的进展不仅将有助于基础植物科学，而且最终将有助于为世界人口提供可持续的粮食供应这一重要目标。

Advances in the basic sciences of genetics, biochemistry and plant physiology in the 20th Century resulted in dramatic increases in agricultural productivity worldwide. Still, more than 800 million people suffer from starvation or malnutrition (U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2000). Dramatic population growth , along with urbanization of arable land, increasing stress from newly emerging pests and pathogens, declining water supplies, global warming, and soil salinization , are world challenges for developing an adequate and sustainable food supply. This project requests support to bring together 100-120 scientists at all career levels, from academia, government and industry, to share new data on the molecular, genetic and biochemical basis of plant responses to temperature. Temperature is a major environmental variable that impacts plant establishment, growth and reproduction, determining species distribution in nature, area suitable for agriculture and crop yield. Participants will advance our basic understanding of how plants sense and respond to temperature, define the types of damage plants experience during temperature stress, identify stress-protective mechanisms and their regulatory pathways, and discuss breeding and transgenic approaches towards enhancing plant temperature stress tolerance. Advances in this field will contribute not only to fundamental plant science, but ultimately will contribute to the important goal of providing the world's population with a sustainable food supply.