2016 Multiscale Plant Vascular Biology: Identifying Interdisciplinary Opportunities for a New Era of Plant Vascular Biology, June 26-July 1, 2016, Sunday River, Newry, Maine.

植物运输水分的能力强烈地影响着它们的生长地点以及它们的生长和生存状况。水的运输是至关重要的，因为植物必须用从土壤中运输到木质部（木材）中的叶子的水来代替光合作用期间从叶子蒸发的水。从光合作用中获得的碳通过另一种类型的运输组织韧皮部中的水分运输分布在整个植物体中。该提案将支持早期职业科学家（研究生和博士后研究人员）参加戈登研究会议的第一次会议，召集研究人员研究从细胞到生态系统的水运输控制。海报展示，讨论和主旨发言人介绍他们最新的研究将被用来促进跨学科的方法来调查植物水分运输。这次会议将提供一个机会，以加强分离的研究社区之间的联系，并促进新的研究机会，以整合他们不同的方法。会议将突出研究的机会和挑战，了解树木死亡率在极端干旱，以及提高农艺和自然植物生长和生存的特点，面对水的可用性下降。 植物碳的获得和存活取决于在土壤水分和环境条件波动时维持木质部和韧皮部的功能。干旱造成的死亡率越来越高，这突出表明需要了解运输的局限性。 世界各地的研究人员正在扩大我们的知识，植物水分运输限制从分子到景观水文尺度，但缺乏跨学科的交流和合作。特别是与运输有关的详细细胞代谢研究尚未与关于水力功能与环境条件、死亡率和气候变化关系的整个植物生理学和生理生态学研究明确联系起来。此外，直到最近，细胞和生物体水平的研究才与生态系统和水文学研究以及大规模模型的开发密切相关。为了连接这些孤立的研究社区，本次会议将汇集来自整个水运研究领域的领导者和早期职业科学家，以综合各研究领域的进展，促进新的跨学科努力，并建立一个激励水运社区内部对话的永久机制。演讲者将展示未发表的原创研究，强调通过跨学科合作可以取得的成果。通过招募和支持一批多样化的研究生和博士后研究员，将促进这些年轻科学家的富有成效的参与，加强未来在这些领域的研究。

The ability of plants to transport water strongly influences where they occur and how well they grow and survive. Water transport is critical because plants must replace water that evaporates from leaves during photosynthesis with water transported from the soil to the leaves in xylem (wood). Carbon gained from photosynthesis is distributed throughout the plant body by water transport in another type of transport tissue, the phloem. This proposal will support the participation of early career scientists (graduate students and postdoctoral researchers) at the first meeting of a Gordon Research Conference drawing together researchers who study the controls on water transport at scales ranging from the cell to the ecosystem. Poster presentations, discussions and keynote speakers presenting their most recent research will be used to promote interdisciplinary approaches to investigating plant water transport. This meeting will provide an opportunity to strengthen ties among disjunct research communities and facilitate new research opportunities to integrate their disparate approaches. The conference will highlight research opportunities and challenges in understanding tree mortality during extreme droughts, as well as traits that enhance agronomic and natural plant growth and survival in the face of decreasing water availability. Plant carbon gain and survival depend on sustaining xylem and phloem function as soil moisture and environmental conditions fluctuate. The increasing frequency of drought-induced mortality highlights the need to understand transport limitations. Researchers worldwide are expanding our knowledge of plant water transport limitations from molecular to landscape hydrological scales but interdisciplinary communication and collaboration has been lacking. In particular the research on detailed cellular metabolism related to transport has not been clearly linked to whole plant physiology and physiological ecology research on the relationship of hydraulic function to environmental conditions, mortality and climate change. Moreover, cellular and organismal level research has not been strongly connected to ecosystem and hydrological studies and the development of large-scale models until very recently. To connect these isolated research communities, this conference will bring together leaders and early career scientists from across the full spectrum of water transport research to synthesize advances across research areas, catalyze new interdisciplinary efforts, and establish a permanent mechanism of stimulating dialogue within the water transport community. Speakers will present original unpublished research emphasizing the gains that can be made through interdisciplinary collaboration. By recruiting and supporting a diverse group of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, productive participation of these young scientists will be facilitated, enhancing future research in these fields for the future.