2014 Salt and Water Stress GRC: From Molecules to the Field Sunday River Resort, Newry, ME August 3-8, 2014

由于气温升高、气候和降水模式的更大变化，预计全球变化将对美国和全世界的食品、燃料和纤维生产产生重大（负面）影响。缺水和盐碱化是影响农业系统作物生产力的两个最重要的环境压力，干旱缺水是农业生产力损失的主要原因。为了开发能够帮助减轻气候变化影响的抗逆性植物，基础研究和应用研究之间的信息流和策略讨论是必不可少的。戈登植物盐和水胁迫研究会议为来自世界各地的分子生物学家、生理学家、育种家和工业代表提供了一个密集信息交流和非正式讨论的独特平台。它促进了对话，这对于实现从实验室到田间、从分子到作物的无缝转化管道至关重要。组织者希望激励年轻、有才华的早期职业科学家参与这一对话，并进一步致力于提高未被充分代表的群体的参与度。目前的项目列出了15名女性担任主席或演讲者。通过从提交的海报摘要中选择其他发言人，将进一步促进少数群体的代表性。干旱和土壤盐碱化造成的植物盐胁迫和水分胁迫限制了世界粮食生产。气候变化和生物燃料生产对土地使用的额外压力进一步加剧了这一问题。科学家们已经并将继续在确定植物非生物胁迫反应和抗性的生物学机制方面取得令人印象深刻的进展。现在获得的知识需要转化为田间作物的改良。这是一个研究领域，优秀的基础科学得到了全世界育种机构、农业机构和公司的极大兴趣，因此为共同努力实现全球可持续粮食和能源生产提供了机会。这项工作的成功关键取决于有关各方之间定期和公开的对话。本提案要求资助10 -12名美国科学家参加第11届戈登植物盐和水分胁迫研究会议的注册费和旅费，该会议将于2014年8月3日至8日在美国缅因州纽里的GRC场地“Sunday River Resort”举行。来自GRC和私营企业的额外资金将用于支付与其他国家，特别是那些盐碱化和干旱对农业造成严重问题的国家的科学家参与有关的一些登记和旅行费用。美国国家科学基金会的资金将用于促进美国科学家在其职业生涯早期阶段的出席。将特别注意少数群体的代表性问题。GRC的形式为非正式讨论和个人接触提供了充足的机会，因此对年轻的研究人员特别有益。2014年会议的具体议题包括逆境适应的进化方面，逆境相关基因和蛋白质的转录和翻译后调控，逆境感知和信号转导，代谢反应，离子和水分稳态，整个植物反应的协调，以及不断变化的全球环境下的作物改良。会议的独特之处在于，它将汇集来自世界各地的研究人员，他们在不同规模的组织中进行非生物应激研究，并将促进协同作用和长期合作。

Global changes due to increasing temperatures and greater variation in climate and precipitation patterns are expected to have major (negative) impacts on food, fuel, and fiber production in the U.S. and throughout the world. Water deficit and salinity are two of the most important environmental stresses affecting the crop productivity of agricultural systems with water deficit from drought being the leading cause of agricultural productivity losses. In order to develop stress-tolerant plants that can help to mitigate the impact of climatic variations, information flow between basic and applied research and discussion of strategies are essential. The Gordon Research Conference on Salt and Water Stress in Plants offers a unique platform for intensive information exchange and informal discussion between molecular biologists, physiologists, breeders and industrial representatives from all over the world. It facilitates a dialogue that is essential to achieve a seamless translational pipeline from the laboratory to the field, from the molecule to the crop. The organizers want to motivate the participation of young, talented early career stage scientists in this dialogue, and are further committed to raising the participation from underrepresented groups. The current program lists fifteen women as chairs or speakers. Representation of minority groups will be further promoted with the selection of additional speakers from the submitted poster abstracts.Salt and water stress in plants caused by drought and soil salinisation restricts world food production. The problem is further exacerbated by climate change and additional pressure on land usage for biofuel production. Scientists have made and continue to make impressive progress in identifying the biological mechanisms underlying abiotic stress responses and resistance in plants. The knowledge gained now needs to be translated into crop improvement in the field. This is a research area where excellent fundamental science is met by considerable interest from breeding institutes, agricultural agencies and companies worldwide, and hence presents an opportunity for a concerted effort to achieve sustainable food and energy production worldwide. Success in this undertaking critically relies on a regular and open dialogue between all parties involved. This proposal requests funding to contribute costs for registration and travel of 10 -12 U.S. scientists to the 11th Gordon Research Conference on Salt & Water Stress in Plants, to be held from 3th and 8th of August 2014 at the GRC site "Sunday River Resort" in Newry, ME, USA. Additional funding from the GRC and private industry will be available to cover some of the registration and travel costs associated with the participation of scientists from other countries, especially those where salinity and drought cause serious problems for agriculture. NSF funds will be used to promote the attendance of U.S. scientists at the early stages in their careers. Particular attention will be given to the representation of minority groups. The GRC format provides ample opportunity for informal discussion and personal contact, and is therefore particularly beneficial for young researchers. Specific session topics of the 2014 meeting cover evolutionary aspects of stress adaptation, transcriptional and post-translational regulation of stress-related genes and proteins, stress perception and signal transduction, metabolic responses, ion and water homeostasis, co-ordination of the whole plant response, and crop improvement for a changing global environment. The Conference is unique in that it will bring together researchers from all over the world who conduct abiotic stress research at diverse scales of organization and it will foster synergistic interactions and long-term collaborations.