Conference: Frontiers of Sexual Plant Reproduction III to be held in Tucson, Arizona, October 17-19, 2008

主要研究者：Ravishankar Palanivelu博士提案编号：IOS-0817697提案标题：会议：有性植物生殖前沿III将于10月17日在亚利桑那州图森市举行？2008年9月19日，植物繁殖对人类的生存至关重要。人类近80%的主食来自农作物的种子。植物繁殖对满足人类其他基本需求也很重要。除了拟议的会议之外，美国的植物生殖生物学科学家很少有负担得起的机会来审查和讨论植物有性生殖研究的最新进展。要求提供资金，以支付组织植物生殖生物学领域研究会议的部分费用，有性植物生殖的新领域将于2008年10月17日至19日在亚利桑那州图森市举行。这一系列的前几次会议非常成功，形成了一个充满活力的研究人员群体，并强调了继续定期组织这一会议的巨大必要性。因此，正在组织这一系列的第三次会议，以维持植物生殖发育研究人员之间先前建立的相互作用，并鼓励新的合作，以推动这一重要领域的进展。本提案中要求的部分资金将为代表性不足的群体、妇女和年轻科学家（如研究生和博士后研究员）的与会者提供差旅和注册支持，以便他们能够在植物生物学领域推进自己的职业生涯。补助金的另一部分将用于鼓励和表彰学生参与者的科学成就;由三个学院组成的委员会将确定前三名本科生/研究生海报，以表彰显著推进该领域的突出发现。通过为来自美国，欧洲，澳大利亚和亚洲的该领域的许多知名专家提供论坛，本次研究会议将通过提供我们追求的知识对国家和世界农业产生直接影响：（i）提高种子产量，（ii）调节物种间杂交，（iii）产生新的植物杂交种。

PI: Dr. Ravishankar PalaniveluProposal Number: IOS-0817697Title of the proposal: Conference: Frontiers of Sexual Plant Reproduction III to be held in Tucson, Arizona, October 17?19, 2008.Plant reproduction is important for human existence. Nearly 80% of staple food of humans comes from seeds of crop plants. Plant reproduction is also important to meet other basic human needs. Besides the proposed conference, very few affordable opportunities are available for plant reproductive biology scientists in the USA to review and discuss the state of the art in the plant sexual reproduction research. Funding is requested to cover partial costs of organizing a research conference in the field of plant reproductive biology, ?Frontiers in Sexual Plant Reproduction III? to be held in Tucson, Arizona, on October 17-19, 2008. Previous meetings in this series were highly successful, nucleated a vibrant community of researchers and highlighted a great need to continue organize this meeting regularly. Therefore, a third meeting in this series is being organized to sustain previously established interactions among plant reproductive development researchers and to stimulate new collaborations to propel progress in this important field. Portion of the funds requested in this proposal will provide travel and registration support to participants from underrepresented groups, women and younger scientists (such as graduate students and post doctoral fellows) so that they can advance their careers in plant biology. Another portion of the grant funds will be used to encourage and recognize scientific excellence among the student participants; a committee comprised of three faculties will identify top three undergraduate/graduate student posters for cash awards for salient findings that significantly advanced the field. By providing a forum to many of the renowned experts in the field, from the US, Europe, Australia and Asia, this research conference will have immediate impact on the nation and world's agriculture by providing knowledge in our pursuit to (i) improve seed yield, (ii) regulate inter species hybridizations, and (iii) generate novel plant hybrids.