2nd Pan-American Congress on Plants and Bioenergy - August 8-11, 2010 in Sao Paulo (Brazil)

继2008年第一届泛美植物与生物能源大会成功举办之后，植物生物能源界将于2009年8月8日至11日在巴西圣保罗举行的第二届泛美植物与生物能源大会再次聚集在一起。与第一届大会一样，本次会议的目标是将政府决策者和科学管理人员以及植物生物学家、农学家、微生物学家、经济学家和生态学家聚集在一起，讨论与生物能源安全有关的问题。今年的会议将完全关注生物能源作物——将它们引入农业领域的进展、生物能源植物的潜在生物学，以及提高未来能源作物生物量产量和质量的新想法。NSF提供的资金用于支付来自美国科学界的学生和年轻研究者的参与费用。

Following the success of the 1st Pan-American Congress on Plants and BioEnergy held in 2008, the plant bioenergy community will come together again for the 2nd Pan American Congress on Plants and BioEnergy to be held August 8-11, 2009 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. As with the 1st Congress, the goal of this meeting is to bring together governmental policy makers and science administrators along with plant biologists, agronomists, microbiologists, economists and ecologists to discuss issues related to bioenergy security. This year's meeting will focus entirely on bioenergy crops - the progress that is being made to introduce them into the agricultural landscape, the underlying biology of bioenergy plants, and new ideas to enhance biomass yield and quality for the energy crops of the future. The funding provided by NSF helps defray the costs of participation of students and young investigators from the U.S. scientific community.