2022 Salt and Water Stress in Plants GRC and GRS

未来50年人类社会面临的最大挑战将是发展一个完全可持续的社会。除了城市或工业用途外，农业是土地和水的最大消耗者。植物生物学如何解决这些存在的问题？人们只需回顾50多年，就会发现农场管理方式和植物育种的变化巧合地导致了绿色革命。通过对植物结构的简单改变，农民能够更好地利用过去在合成肥料生产方面的创新。这些变化被认为拯救了超过10亿人的生命，降低了森林砍伐率。下一次绿色革命将需要超越这些简单解决方案的创新。以生态认真的方式增加产量将涉及跨学科团队，包括基础科学家、育种者、合成生物学家和农学家。戈登植物盐分和水分胁迫研究会议的目标是促进这些领域最新研究的共享，并提供肥沃的土壤，以催生下一代植物科学中改变游戏规则的创新，使“绿色”-绿色革命成为可能。2022年戈登植物盐分和水分胁迫研究会议(GRC)将汇集致力于在不同组织规模上发现植物耐受胁迫的机制基础的研究人员。该计划代表了对植物-环境相互作用的整体性的认识，以及整合跨越分子、细胞、发育、生态和全球尺度的研究主题的必要性。该计划将专注于盐度和其他与水相关的压力，现在还将包括研究这些压力和生物领域之间的界面的开创性工作。演讲将突出模型系统的力量，解决跨越物种边界的进化问题，并研究使用全球相关作物的基础研究和应用研究之间的联系。通过这个跨学科论坛，我们希望聚集研究人员，他们正在回答最引人注目的科学问题，并产生最广泛的影响。GRC的大部分内容将包括20分钟的未发表研究报告和10分钟的讨论时间。尽管该项目的核心已经确立，但近一半的演讲将从提交的摘要中挑选出来，展示最新的发现，并为更年轻、更有前途的学员提供机会。该计划包括海报会议和空闲时间，以加强想法交流和网络联系。GRS前期会议是由学员组织的，重点是探索植物多样性、基因组学、综合生理学和与田间相关的研究的多学科研究主题。会议将通过有针对性的旅行奖励给对从事植物研究感兴趣的研究生和博士后研究员来支持更广泛的参与。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The greatest challenge to human society in the next 50 years will be to develop a fully sustainable society. Above and beyond urban or industrial use, agriculture is the largest consumer of land and water. How can plant biology address these existential problems? One has only to look back, a little over 50 years, to see that the coincidence of changes in farm management practices and plant breeding led to the Green Revolution. Through simple changes in plant architecture, farmers were better able to take advantage of past innovations in the production of synthetic fertilizers. These changes are thought to have saved over a billion lives and reduced the rate of deforestation. The next Green Revolution will require innovations that go beyond these simple solutions. Increasing yields in an ecologically conscientious manner will involve interdisciplinary teams including basic scientists, breeders, synthetic biologists, and agronomists. The goal of the Gordon Research Conference on Salt and Water Stress in Plants is to foster sharing of the latest research in these areas and provide fertile grounds to spawn the next game-changing innovations in plant science that will make a “green”-Green Revolution possible.The 2022 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Salt and Water Stress in Plants will bring together researchers endeavoring to discover the mechanistic basis of stress tolerance in plants at different scales of organization. The program represents an acknowledgement of the holistic nature of plant-environmental interactions and the need to integrate research topics that span molecular, cellular, developmental, ecological and global scales. The program will focus on salinity and other water-associated stresses, and will now also include pioneering work that examines the interface between these stresses and the biotic realm. Presentations will highlight the power of model systems, tackle evolutionary questions spanning species boundaries, and examine the nexus between basic and applied research using globally relevant crops. Through this interdisciplinary forum, we hope to pool together researchers that are answering the most compelling scientific questions with the broadest impact. The bulk of the GRC will comprise 20-minute presentations of unpublished research and 10-minute discussion periods. Although the core of the program is established, nearly half of the talks will be selected from submitted abstracts to air the most recent discoveries and provide opportunities for younger and rising trainees. The program includes poster sessions and free time to enhance idea exchange and networking. The GRS pre-meeting is organized by trainees and focused on multi-disciplinary research topics that explore plant diversity, genomics, integrative physiology and field-relevant research. The conference will support broader participation through targeted travel awards to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows interested in pursuing plant research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.