Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP170100103
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Finding damage thresholds in pyrethrum to optimise crop profitability. This project aims to use a new vascular approach to develop a quantitative stress tolerance framework for the crop species pyrethrum, defining the risks to plant production of water, heat and frost stress. Using novel optical and x-ray technology, this project seeks to pinpoint damaging stress thresholds and combine this knowledge with crop monitoring technology in a way that will allow crop managers to avoid damaging stress events. The intended outcome is to enable the pyrethrum industry, and ultimately a diversity of crop managers, to better utilise new advances in monitoring technology to maximise the benefits of irrigation such that yields are high relative to water use and damage by stress is avoided. Immediate beneficiaries will be the pyrethrum industry, but the research will provide a model, applicable to the multitude of irrigated crops in Australia.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 07-2018
End Date: 07-2021
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $263,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Ecology | Ecological Physiology | Crop and Pasture Biochemistry and Physiology | Biological Adaptation
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Management of Water Consumption by Plant Production | Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Plant Extract Crops (e.g. Pyrethrum, Jojoba) |
