© The Author 2008. Published by the Molecular Plant Shanghai Editorial Office in association with Oxford University Press on behalf of CSPP and IPPE, SIBS, CAS.
2020 Vision for Biology: The Role of Plants in Addressing Grand Challenges in Biology
Received for publication June 19, 2008. Accepted for publication June 20, 2008.
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In November 1998, a group of scientists met in Palo Alto, California, at an NSF-sponsored workshop to discuss the grand challenges facing biology at that time. Their primary aim was to identify areas in which plant science could provide important and lasting contributions to addressing these challenges. A key recommendation from their report was to focus sufficient resources on the reference plant Arabidopsis to be able to exploit fully its soon to be completed genome sequence. Nine years later, as we near completion of the 2010 program, it is appropriate to step back, assess progress and once again ask how plants can contribute to addressing the grand challenges in biology. What is crystal clear is that there are a host of real-world problems that involve plants: escalating pressures for food, the need for renewable biofuels, and habitat preservation are being driven by the demands of an ever growing and ever
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