会议名称(中文)： 2014年国际植物生物技术大会
会议名称(英文)： International Association of Plant Biotechnology Congress 2014
所属学科： 动植物微生物学,遗传与发育生物学,生物技术与生物工程
开始日期： 2014-08-10
结束日期： 2014-08-15
所在国家： 澳大利亚
所在城市： 澳大利亚
具体地点： Melbourne, Australia
主办单位： International Association of Plant Biotechnology
[ 重要日期 ]
摘要截稿日期： 2014-02-28
[ 会务组联系方式 ]
联系电话： +61 3 9645 6311
传真： +61 3 9645 6322
E-MAIL： iapb@wsm.com.au
会议网站： http://www.iapb2014congress.com/
会议背景介绍： At the 12th International Association for Plant Biotechnology (IAPB) Congress 2010 in St Louis, USA I was honoured with the selection as President of the Association through 2014 and with the opportunity to host the next IAPB Congress in 2014 in Melbourne, Australia.
It is with a great sense of pride that I assume this role and affirm my commitment to advance the Association and its objectives to promote plant biotechnology including cell and tissue culture applications, and in so doing to support the goal of advancement of plant biotechnology development and usage to the benefit of humankind.
We live at a time of unprecedented new discoveries, some of these expected to transform life sciences and technology development for years to come. They are to offer a unique opportunity for people to improve their lives and the environment we live. We cannot ignore these.
Technologies have always been at the heart of human progress and development. And it is critical that we harness the benefits of technological advances – while at the same time safeguarding against the possible new risks that may accompany them. This is no different for plant and agricultural biotechnology.
It is undeniable that timely access to technology provides us with better tools; tools that are ultimately instrumental in satisfying society’s needs and desires.
The food security challenge of doubling food production in only 50 years has become a daunting task to feed a world with an expected population of over 9 billion people by 2050. We must double food production in a sustainable and resource use efficient manner using less water, less fossil fuel and less nitrogen, on approximately the same area of arable land. And at the same time we must mitigate some of the challenges associated with climate variability and change.
In addition, we need to face the urgent and essential humanitarian need and moral responsibility to alleviate poverty, hunger and malnutrition which now afflict more than 1 billion people.
The outcomes of research and development in plant biotechnology are contributing to harvests of hope – with transgenic crops representing a potential tool providing options for sustainable development. Since the first commercial planting of transgenic crops in 1996, we have seen over the last 16 years, a record 94-fold increase in acreage of transgenic crops, and cumulatively over 1.2 billion hectares of transgenic crops planted by 2011, which makes these crops, products of plant biotechnology, the fastest adopted crop technology in the history of modern agriculture.
However, the growing of transgenic crops remains controversial in parts of the world, in spite of 160 million hectares of transgenic crops grown by 16.7 million farmers in 29 countries in 2011. This highlights the need for our ongoing engagement in dialog with those that do not practice the science of plant biotechnology or develop products from plant biotechnology to enhance general public understanding of the technology and address any concerns.
As the newly established leadership of IAPB, we hope you will join us in Melbourne in August 2014 for the 13th International Association for Plant Biotechnology Congress, to learn about and share exciting developments in plant biotechnology and plant science of interest to the diversity of the IAPB membership.
Melbourne promises to be a wonderful host for this diversity, being one of the most cosmopolitan and multicultural cities in the world, with 140 nations represented, 100 religious faiths and 180 languages, each enriching the cultural life of the city.
征文范围及要求： Abstracts can be submitted under the following categories:
Abiotic Stress
Innovations in Gene
Transfer to Plants
Bioenergy
Innovations in In Vitro Culture/Propagation
Biopharma & Bioproducts
Microbiomes &
Plant-Microbe Interactions
Biosafety & Acceptance
Molecular Breeding
Biotic Stress
Natural Products
& Bioprospecting
Crop Biofortification & Nutritional Enhancement
Next Generation
Breeding Technologies
Ethics, Economics, Social Benefits
Nutrient Uptake
and Utilization
Foundation Traits & Stewardship
Signal Transduction, Genomics, Metabolomics
Gene Expression/Gene Stacking
Yield
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