Science session on drought-tolerant plants
21 July 2008 - 21 July 2008
Spain
A science session entitled 'Drought-tolerant plants: helping the world to cope with global warming' is scheduled to take place on 21 July in Barcelona, Spain. It will take place in the framework of the EuroScience Open Forum 2008 (ESOF2008) and is organized by the Japanese research organisation RIKEN.
Environmental degradation and climate change are global problems. How can plant biotechnology help? Molecular biological techniques can produce varieties of crops and trees that can tolerate drought. It is key to understanding plant responses to drought stress at the molecular level, since higher plants respond by various molecular and cellular processes.
This session, organised as one of the science sessions under the theme 'Enhancing energy security, fighting global warming' will describe recent research on the functions of stress inducible genes, regulation of gene expression in response to drought stress, and identification of many drought inducible genes and their functions.
Speakers include renowned scientists in this field of research, namely, Dr Dorothea Bartels from the University of Bonn, Germany; Dr Montserrat Pagés from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC); and Dr Kazuo Shinozaki from RIKEN (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Japan.For further information, please click:
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Environmental degradation and climate change are global problems. How can plant biotechnology help? Molecular biological techniques can produce varieties of crops and trees that can tolerate drought. It is key to understanding plant responses to drought stress at the molecular level, since higher plants respond by various molecular and cellular processes.
This session, organised as one of the science sessions under the theme 'Enhancing energy security, fighting global warming' will describe recent research on the functions of stress inducible genes, regulation of gene expression in response to drought stress, and identification of many drought inducible genes and their functions.
Speakers include renowned scientists in this field of research, namely, Dr Dorothea Bartels from the University of Bonn, Germany; Dr Montserrat Pagés from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC); and Dr Kazuo Shinozaki from RIKEN (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Japan.For further information, please click:
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