Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0663758

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0663758

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Genetic and Hormonal Regulation of Plant Growth. Leguminous plants make a substantial contribution to the Australian economy. To ensure future growth, we need to know more about how legume development is regulated. Genetic mutants, typically affecting the growth-promoting gibberellin plant hormones, played a key role in the green revolution, which transformed agriculture world-wide. Recent results show that gibberellin acts in concert with another hormone, auxin. We will generate new auxin-related mutants that will help us to understand how auxin and auxin-mediated interactions affect crop architecture and performance. Further benefit will accrue from training of students in state-of-the-art techniques, and the generation of new germplasm for use by other researchers and plant breeders.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2006

End Date: 12-2010

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $296,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Plant Biology | Gene Expression | Plant Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Grain legumes |

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