If you are a plant researcher who is interested in salt stress, you are not alone. YoungerUSA has been passionate about this particular field for over 15 years, and we're proud to announce that we'll be sponsoring an upcoming Gordon Research Conference dedicated to salt stress in plants.
Like YoungerUSA, the GRC organization is a group of creative innovators in the New England area. They attract some of the most creative minds and encourage discussion of unpublished research, so as to facilitate the flow of brilliant new ideas. YoungerUSA shares this passion for research by contributing as technological innovators. We have been bringing our unique life science research technology into labs and inspiring new research since 2001.
The GRC conference we have chosen to sponsor is coming up in June, held in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire: Salt and Water Stress in Plants: Abiotic Stress and the Future of Agriculture. The topic of this particular conference really represents the heart and soul of YoungerUSA. When we set out to promote NMT as a revolutionary new instrument for life science research, we could never have dreamed of the positive response we got from plant scientists! Today, plant stress research is still one of the top fields publishing papers with NMT.
Just recently in 2018, a paper by Zhou A., et al. was published in Plant Cell Reports, which showed how amazing Na+ flux data can be for screening the stress resistance of different plant varieties. After 17 years of technical innovation, NMT has exploded as a popular and indispensable research instrument in plant salt stress.
We support GRC because they share the same values as YoungerUSA when it comes to the bigger discussion on plant research:
"Talks will consider mechanisms - from the molecular to the organismic level - that influence cellular activities, developmental programs and whole-plant physiology."
These GRC talks are clearly chosen to cover the range of levels involved, rather than focusing on just one. This is exactly the view on all biological research that YoungerUSA so passionately believes in: the importance of live, physiological data on all levels. We are all so excited about the abilities of molecular biology and gene editing for improving crops, but when you also look at the physiology of the whole plant, you can truly assess the difference. NMT is the perfect instrument for this broad spectrum research, as it provides direct measurement of the physiological responses in sample sizes ranging from single cell, to root/leaf tissue, to a whole plant.
To learn more about salt stress and NMT, check out our publications.
References:
Zhou A., et al. NaCl-induced expression of AtVHA-c5 gene in the roots plays a role in response of Arabidopsis to salt stress. Plant Cell Reports. 2018. 37:443–452 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-017-2241-x
Gordon Research Conference: Salt and Water Stress in Plants. https://www.grc.org/salt-and-water-stress-in-plants-conference/2018/
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