Workshop: Plant Science Research Summit, "Grand Challenges in Plant Science Research for the 21st Century", to be held in Chevy Chase, MD on September 22-23, 2011

智力优势：美国植物生物学家协会将于2011年9月22日至23日在马里兰州切维蔡斯的霍华德休斯医学研究所会议中心举办植物科学研究峰会。 此次峰会将让广泛的植物科学研究界参与制定一项共识计划，以在未来十年内激励和指导植物科学研究。峰会将汇集从基础到应用的全方位植物科学研究的代表，以确定我们对植物生物学的理解中的关键差距，这些差距必须在未来10年或更长时间内填补，以应对重大挑战，例如健康，能源，食品和环境可持续性。峰会的主要成果将是一份报告，提出植物科学研究投资的十年计划，描述植物科学对解决重要科学优先事项和重大社会挑战的贡献。该报告将广为散发，并计划开展若干传播活动。更广泛的影响：植物科学研究峰会将有助于汇集广泛的植物科学界在各种部门，模型系统，机构类型，科学方法和其他方面。峰会的参与者也将来自社区，以最大限度地提高性别、地域、年龄、残疾和其他特征的多样性。提出了一个广泛的传播计划，将项目的成果带到整个植物科学界和植物科学界之外。这将有助于扩大该项目和植物科学对新社区的影响。该报告将使用最少的技术语言编写，以便广泛的读者，包括政策制定者，资助者，教育工作者，意见领袖和其他人都可以阅读。此外，该项目的结果预计将广泛适用，不仅有助于指导未来十年的研究方向，而且还将为植物科学中的重大问题提供教育框架。预计专业协会和其他利益攸关方将能够编制与报告中确定的优先事项有关的教育材料。

Intellectual Merit: The American Society of Plant Biologists will host a Plant Science Research Summit at the Conference Center of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, MD on September 22-23, 2011. The summit will engage the broad plant science research community in a process to develop a consensus plan to invigorate and guide plant science research over the next decade. The summit will bring together representatives of the full spectrum of plant science research, from basic to applied, to identify critical gaps in our understanding of plant biology that must be filled over the next 10 years or more to address grand challenges, such as those in health, energy, food, and environmental sustainability. The primary product of the summit will be a report suggesting a decadal plan for investments in plant science research, describing the contributions of plant science to addressing important scientific priorities and vital societal challenges. The report will be made widely available, and several dissemination activities are planned. Broader Impacts: The Plant Science Research Summit will help bring together the broad plant science community across a variety of sectors, model systems, institution types, scientific approaches, and other dimensions. The participants in the summit will also be drawn from the community in a way that maximizes diversity by gender, geography, age, disability, and other characteristics. An extensive dissemination plan is proposed that will bring the results of the project throughout and beyond the plant science community. This will help broaden the reach of the project and of plant science to new communities. The report will be written with a minimum of technical language so that it can be accessible to a wide range of readers including policymakers, funders, educators, opinion leaders, and others. Moreover, the results of the project are expected to be broadly applicable not only to help guide research directions over the next decade, but to provide a framework for education about the big questions in plant science. It is expected that professional societies and other stakeholders will be able to develop educational materials related to the priorities identified in the report.