上篇博客介绍了“植物科学研究中的100个重要问题” ，这些问题是从不同人群中征集、整理出来的，不少问题是科学家们正在研究的问题。

Next Generation Scientists(NGS)还可以研究哪些问题呢？请植物科学领导者们怎么说。

http://www.plantcell.org/content/early/2012/02/21/tpc.111.093302.abstract

New Technologies for 21st Century Plant Science

这篇文章回顾过去几十年基本解决的一些问题：

Over the past decade, plant biology has matured and is
homing in on many of the classic great questions:
mechanisms of cell and tissue development,

the interplay of hormones,
mechanisms of cell wall construction and growth,

the structure and function of signaling and metabolic networks,

and mechanisms of environmental perception and adaptation.

Highlightsinclude the insight that 

protein degradation is central to hormone signaling and perception,

the discovery of regulatory small RNAs,

the identification of ion transporters as receptors,

the discovery of flowering signals,

the delineation of regulatory networks for hormones,

the molecular basis for guard cell movement,

discovery of genetic control networks for development,
and breakthroughs in applications such as submergence
tolerant rice.

接着提出了三类技术：

(1) What existing technology do we need that is not currently being applied (Table 1)?

(2) What new technology can be developed that we can readily envision (Table 2)?

(3) What technology would we like to have but do not know how to create?

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