U.S.-Pakistan Workshop: Nitrogen Fixation with Non-Legumes Faisalabad, Pakistan, October 16-21, 1996

产品描述：该奖项旨在支持六名科学家参与美国-中东和南亚的科学家，其中四名来自美国，两名来自中东和南亚。拟于1996年10月16日至21日在巴基斯坦费萨拉巴德举行的关于“非豆类作物固氮”的巴基斯坦讲习班和相关的国际专题讨论会。 组织者是密歇根州东兰辛的密歇根州立大学微生物学系的Frans deBruijn博士和巴基斯坦费萨拉巴德的国家生物技术遗传工程研究所所长Kauser Malik博士。 会议的目的是：1.报告和讨论最近进行的关于非豆科植物固氮的研究结果，并评估提高作物生产力的潜力; 2.为美国和巴基斯坦科学家提供机会，建立联系，并在这一领域开展合作研究项目;确定在不久的将来应强调的固氮研究的各个方面。 会议记录预计将出版，并广泛提供给美国科学家和对这一主题感兴趣的其他国家的科学家。 适用范围：该奖项将资助四名美国科学家和两名来自发展中国家的主要科学家参加一个重要的讲习班和专题讨论会，讨论对世界上大多数农业国家非常重要的主题。 讨论的研究结果和对未来研究的审议旨在实现双重目标，即减少氮肥成本负担，并减少合成氮肥生产和使用造成的污染。 由此产生的合作研究将涉及一批来自以农业为主的巴基斯坦的活跃的年轻研究人员和来自美国的科学家，研究与加强非豆类作物固氮有关的各种基础科学课题，包括遗传学、生物化学和生理学。 该项目符合国际方案司促进与外国科学家在共同感兴趣的领域合作的目标。

Description: This award is to support participation by six scientists, four from the United States, and two from the Middle East and South Asia, in a U.S.-Pakistan Workshop, and the associated International symposium, on `Nitrogen Fixation with Non-Legumes` to be held in Faisalabad, Pakistan, October 16-21, 1996. The organizers are Dr. Frans deBruijn of the Department of Microbiology at Michigan State University, in East Lansing, MI, and Dr. Kauser Malik, Director, National Institute for Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering (NIBGE) in Faisalabad, Pakistan. The meeting is intended to :1. report and discuss the results of recent research being carried out on nitrogen fixation with non-legumes and to assess the potential for enhancement of crop productivity; 2. to provide opportunities for U.S. and Pakistani scientists to establish contacts and to develop collaborative research projects in this area; and 3. to identify various aspects of nitrogen fixation research which should be emphasized in the immediate future. The proceedings are expected to be published and to become widely available to U.S. scientists and to scientists in other countries interested in this topic. Scope: This award is to fund travel of four U.S. scientists and two key scientists from developing countries to participate in an important workshop and symposium where discussions will deal with a topic of great importance to most of the agrarian countries in the world. The research results to be discussed, and the deliberations on future research are intended to accomplish the twin objectives of reducing the burden of the cost of nitrogen fertilizers, and also reduce the pollution from the manufacture and use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers. The resulting collaborative research would involve a group of active young researchers from Pakistan, a predominantly agricultural country, with scientists from the United States, in various fundamental science topics, including genetics, biochemistry and physiology, that are related to enhancing nitrogen fixation in non-legumes. The project meets the objectives of the Division of International Programs in promoting collaboration with foreign scientists in areas of mutual interest.