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

PI: Ravishankar palanivelu博士提案号：ios -0817697提案标题：会议：植物有性生殖的前沿III将于10月17日在亚利桑那州图森市举行？19日,2008年。植物的繁殖对人类的生存很重要。人类近80%的主食来自农作物种子。植物繁殖对于满足人类的其他基本需求也很重要。除了提议的会议之外，美国的植物生殖生物学科学家很少有机会回顾和讨论植物有性生殖研究的最新进展。请提供资金以支付组织一次植物生殖生物学领域的研究会议的部分费用。植物有性生殖前沿III？将于2008年10月17日至19日在亚利桑那州图森市举行。该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社区，并强调了继续定期组织该会议的巨大必要性。因此，正在组织本系列的第三次会议，以维持植物生殖发育研究人员之间先前建立的互动，并促进新的合作，以推动这一重要领域的进展。本提案中要求的部分资金将用于为来自代表性不足的群体、女性和年轻科学家（如研究生和博士后研究员）的参与者提供旅行和注册支持，以便他们能够在植物生物学方面发展自己的事业。拨款的另一部分将用于鼓励和表彰学生参加者的科学成就；一个由三个学院组成的委员会将选出前三名本科生/研究生海报，以奖励在该领域取得重大进展的突出发现。通过为来自美国、欧洲、澳大利亚和亚洲的许多该领域的知名专家提供一个论坛，这次研究会议将通过提供我们追求的知识(i)提高种子产量，（ii）调节种间杂交，（iii）产生新的植物杂交，对国家和世界农业产生直接影响。

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.