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Plant Abiotic Stress and Sustainable Agriculture: Translating Basic Understanding to Food Production Scientific Organizers: Julia Bailey-Serres and Paul Michael Hasegawa

January 17–22, 2013 | Sagebrush Inn and Conference Center | Taos, New Mexico | USA

The world must immediately increase global crop production to meet the food, fiber and bio-fuel demands of our growing population. This challenge is complicated by a decline in arable

farmland due to human occupancy and soil degradation. Crop production is also compromised by an increased occurrence of severe weather events due to global climate change. To meet human needs, major crops must be rapidly modified to ensure productivity in extreme environments. A major target is the improvement of tolerance to abiotic stresses including extremes in water availability, temperature and soil contamination by salts, phosphate and heavy metals. Allied with abiotic stress tolerance is the need to improve crop yields in nutrient poor soils. Genetic diversity for stress tolerance and nutrient acquisition exists within some crop species. The molecular genetic basis of this diversity is being identified and harnessed into cultivars by marker-assisted breeding. The use of functional genomics to dissect abiotic stress sensing and signaling networks and the downstream adjustments in metabolism and development can provide additional solutions for crop improvement through genetic engineering. The emergence of deep-sequencing promises to permit rapid exploration of abiotic tolerance mechanisms of non-crop plants. Finally, the efforts to precisely define abiotic stress tolerance mechanisms can aid the effective pyramiding of multiple tolerances in a single plant. This Keystone Symposia meeting will highlight progress in the dissection of the molecular basis of abiotic stress tolerance and the practices that enable rapid translation of abiotic stress tolerance to the farmer’s field.

Session Topics: > Harnessing Genetic Diversity to Improve Crop Stress Tolerance > Extremes in Water Availability: From Genes to Field > Understanding and Improving Water Use Efficiency > Stress Sensing, Signaling and Response Networks> Roots and Their Environment > Stress Systems Biology to Genetic Variation> Challenges and Solutions in the Field> Global Climate Change: CO2 and Temperature

Abstract & Scholarship Deadline: September 19, 2012Late-Breaking Abstract Deadline: October 18, 2012Early Registration Deadline: November 14, 2012

Note: Scholarships are available to students and postdoctoral fellows and require a brief application and submission of an abstract. Short talk speakers will also be selected from abstracts. Early registration saves US$150 on later fee. Information shown is subject to possible change.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 17Arrival and Registration

FRIDAY, JANUARY 18Welcome and Keynote Address *Mike Hasegawa, Purdue University, USAMarc Van Montagu, Ghent University, Belgium30 years of Transgenic Plants: Discover, Innovate, Communicate

Harnessing Genetic Diversity to Improve Crop Stress Tolerance Mark Tester, University of Adelaide, AustraliaUnderstanding and Manipulating Salininty Tolerance in Wheat andBarleyJulia Bailey-Serres, University of California, Riverside, USAFlooding Survival Strategies Sigrid Heuer, University of Adelaide, AustraliaA Novel Rice Protein Kinase, OsPSTOL1, Confers Tolerance ofPhosphorus Deficiency by Enhancing Root GrowthMatthew H. Siebers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USAShort Talk: The Effects of Regionally Defined Heatwaves on CropProduction in Central Illinois at Current and Future [CO2]

Extremes in Water Availability: From Genes to Field *Susanne von Caemmerer, Australian National University, AustraliaL.A.C.J. Rens Voesenek, Utrecht University, NetherlandsSubmergence Coping Mechanisms in Wild SpeciesAndy Pereira, University of Arkansas, USAEnhancing Photosynthesis for Increasing Yield and Abiotic StressResistance in Rice Michael L. Nuccio, Inari Agriculture, Inc., USAImprovement of Drought Tolerance in CropsStephen H. Howell, Iowa State University, USAShort Talk: Heat, ER Stress, and the Unfolded Protein Response(UPR)

Poster Session 1

SATURDAY, JANUARY 19Understanding and Improving Water Use Efficiency *Dirk Inzé, VIB 2 -Ghent University, BelgiumMichael V. Mickelbart, Purdue University, USAPhysiological and Molecular Genetic Basis of Water Use EfficiencyAlistair M. Hetherington, University of Bristol, UKEnvironmental Regulation of Stomatal DynamicsDominique Bergmann, Stanford University, USADevelopmental Regulation and Functional Consequences Hilde Nelissen, VIB-Ghent University, BelgiumShort Talk: The Effect of Drought on the Growth Processes in theMaize Leaf

Biswa R. Acharya, Pennsylvania State University, USAShort Talk: Protein Interaction Network in Arabidopsis Guard CellABA Signaling: A Systems Biology Approach Julian I. Schroeder, University of California, San Diego, USAShort Talk: Molecular Mechanisms Mediating CO2 Control ofTranspiration and Stomatal Development

Stress Sensing, Signaling and Response Networks *Julian I. Schroeder, University of California, San Diego, USASean Cutler, University of California, Riverside, USAStructure and Function of ABA ReceptorsDongdong Kong, University of Maryland, USAShort Talk: Arabidopsis Glutamate Receptor Homologs RegulateCa2+ Homeostasis and SignalingJörg Kudla, Universität Münster, GermanyShort Talk: Functions of the Ca2+ Decoding CBL-CIPK SignalingNetwork in Mediating and Enhancing Abiotic Stress ResponsesJian-Kang Zhu, Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS, ChinaOsmotic Stress Sensing and Signaling in ArabidopsisRon Mittler, University of North Texas, USADissecting the Rapid Systemic Signaling Pathway of Plants

SUNDAY, JANUARY 20Roots and their Environment *Sigrid Heuer, University of Adelaide, AustraliaLuis Herrera-Estrella, Texas Tech University, USADevelopment of a Novel Fertilizer and Weed Control System basedon Phosphate MetabolismLeon V. Kochian, US Department of Agriculture, ARS, NAA, USAMolecular and Biochemical Regulation of Cereal Aluminum ToleranceMary Lou Guerinot, Dartmouth College, USAFrom the Soil to the Seed: Metal Homeostasis in PlantsMaria J. Harrison, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, USAThe Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi SymbiosisAaron P. Smith, Louisiana State University, USAShort Talk: Dissecting the Roles of Nucleosome Occupancy andH2A.Z Abundance in Modulating Responses to P- and/orFe-Deficiency in Rice

Stress Systems Biology to Genetic Variation *Alistair M. Hetherington, University of Bristol, UKJerzy Paszkowski, University of Cambridge, UKEpigenetics Regulation of Abiotic Stress Responses Philip N. Benfey, Duke University, USAA Systems Approach to Important Root TraitsDirk Inzé, VIB 2 -Ghent University, BelgiumThe Impact of Stress on Growth and Development Claudia Jonak, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, AustriaShort Talk: The RNA-Directed DNA Methylation Pathway Regulatesthe Temperature Stress Response

* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted Program current as of November 17, 2021. Meal formats are based on meeting venue. For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org.

KEYSTONE SYMPOSIAon Molecular and Cellular Biology

Plant Abiotic Stress and Sustainable Agriculture: Translating Basic Understanding to FoodProduction (A6)

January 17-22, 2013 • Sagebrush Inn & Suites • Taos, NM, USA Scientific Organizers: Julia Bailey-Serres and Mike Hasegawa

Sponsored by Monsanto CompanyDiscounted Abstract & Scholarship Deadline: September 19, 2012 / Late-Breaking Abstract Deadline: October 18, 2012 / Early Registration Deadline: November 14, 2012

Poster Session 2

MONDAY, JANUARY 21Challenges and Solutions in the Field *Mark Tester, University of Adelaide, AustraliaDonald E. Nelson, , USAAdvances in Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Key CropsMitch R. Tuinstra, Purdue University, USAProspects for Adapting Maize to Drought and High-Temperature StressRichard A. James, CSIRO, AustraliaDevelopment and Evaluation of Salt-Tolerant WheatKatharina Bräutigam, University of Toronto, CanadaShort Talk: Genetic and Epigenetic Impacts on the Poplar DroughtResponseAmandeep Mittal, Texas Tech University, USAShort Talk: Field Testing of Transgenic Cotton Expressing ArabidopsisABA Insensitive5 (ABI5) and B3-Domain Related toABI3/VIVIPAROUS1 (RAV) Transcription Factors

Global Climate Change: CO2 and Temperature *Julia Bailey-Serres, University of California, Riverside, USAJian Hua, Cornell University, USAModulation of Plant Immunity by TemperatureLisa Ainsworth, US Department of Agriculture, USAMaximizing Soybean Production in a High CO2, High Ozone WorldSharon B. Gray, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USAShort Talk: Elevated Atmospheric CO2 Alters Root Depth Distribution,Enhancing Abscisic Acid Signaling and Stomatal Closure UnderDrought in Field-Grown SoybeanSusanne von Caemmerer, Australian National University, AustraliaImpacts of Elevated CO2 and Temperature on Photosynthesis andOther Processes

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22Departure

* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted Program current as of November 17, 2021. Meal formats are based on meeting venue. For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org.

KEYSTONE SYMPOSIAon Molecular and Cellular Biology

Plant Abiotic Stress and Sustainable Agriculture: Translating Basic Understanding to FoodProduction (A6)

January 17-22, 2013 • Sagebrush Inn & Suites • Taos, NM, USA Scientific Organizers: Julia Bailey-Serres and Mike Hasegawa

Sponsored by Monsanto CompanyDiscounted Abstract & Scholarship Deadline: September 19, 2012 / Late-Breaking Abstract Deadline: October 18, 2012 / Early Registration Deadline: November 14, 2012