Plant Biology Research and Training for the 21st Century (1992) / Chapter Skim
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3 FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS
3 FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS
Pages 37-42
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provides substantial support for plant research, funding has been predominantly in the form of formula allocations to a fraction of the nation's research and teaching institutions. The USDA Agricultural Research Service also constitutes a relatively large federally supported intramural program, but this system is not comprehensive and it is not open.
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As universities restructure traditional botany, zoology, and microbiology departments into thematic departments that cut across organismal boundanes, plant biology loses academic positions to herds with access to the much larder funding bases of the biomedical support structure. In 1988-1989, only 16~o of plant-biology faculty were at universities that had demonstrated their competitiveness in science by ranking among the top 20 institutional recipients of federal support for research and development in the life sciences (NSF, 1990b)
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It is not surprising that the e~oUment in baccalaureate plant sciences programs, as reported by members of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, decreased from 10,953 In 1982 to 6,974 in 1989 (NASULGC, 1990) or that the number of plant-science graduate students shrank Tom 8,023 ~ 1982-1983 to 7,317 in 1 988-1989 (NSF, 1990b, Table A-8~.
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Few large research laboratories are performing forefront research using plant systems. · There is insufficient basic plant biology in the core biology curricula of many universities aIld colleges.
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economy. The committee notes that the NIH system of comprehensive support for basic biologic research has been successful; that its elements are applicable to the problems facing the plant sciences; and that a program in basic plant sciences, constructed on the NIH model, wounds support research and teaching, and concomitantly would improve the competitiveness of U.S.
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An Institution selects its graduate students, and the grant pays stipends and tuition costs for three to five years. Postdoctoral fellows are supported by individual grants awarded by competition to scientists nearing completion of their graduate studies who have applied to carry out postdoctoral research.
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