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Global Plant Council Workshop!
We are excited to announce that the Global Plant Council will be holding a workshop entitled “Enhancing Global Collaborations in Crop Science” at the ASA CSSA annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, on 4th November. The workshop will cost just $20, and will bring together researchers from around the world to discuss how best to facilitate international collaboration between researchers and policy experts in crop science.

Full details:
Sunday, Nov. 4, 8:30 AM-4:00 PM. Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Description: The pressing challenges of providing safe, nutritious, and quality food to a growing global population in a changing climate cannot be met by researchers and policymakers working independently in distinct disciplines. While excellent plant and crop science research is currently underway around the world, we need to facilitate international collaboration to increase both the speed and effectiveness of our response to the challenge of food insecurity.

This workshop will bring together international research leaders and policy experts in a range of fields related to crop science. By combining the experience of these contributors, we will generate new ideas and develop new models for large-scale integrative research to further our international collaborative research efforts. In breakout groups, attendees will have the opportunity to formulate proposals for the future development of intervention strategies that will kickstart an initiative to address one of the world’s major food security challenges. One-hour break for lunch (lunch not provided.)

If you have news you would like us to share on our website, please contact sarah@globalplantcouncil.org

Breakthrough in battle against rice blast
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Newly discovered hormone helps keep plants from dehydrating
This study shows how the peptide CLE25 moves from the roots to the leaves when water is scarce and helps prevent water loss by closing pores in the leaf surface.

How does plant DNA avoid the ravages of UV radiation?
If the ultraviolet radiation from the sun damages human DNA to cause health problems, does UV radiation also damage plant DNA? The answer is yes, but because plants can’t come in from the sun or slather on sunblock, they have a super robust DNA repair kit.

‘Rip van Winkle’ plants hide underground for up to 20 years
Scores of plant species are capable of living dormant under the soil for up to 20 years, enabling them to survive through difficult times, a new study has found.

If you have a conference, meeting, workshop, training course or other event coming up, we can include it in our Events calendar! Please email sarah@globalplantcouncil.org

Enhancing productivity in a changing climate (ASA CSSA meeting)
04–07 November 2018. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

1st International Plant Systems Biology
10–14 September 2018. Roscoff, France.

Plant Biology Europe 2018
18–21 June 2018. Copenhagen, Denmark.

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