Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0986139
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Investigating a new paradigm for plant-pathogen interactions; Identification of host-selective toxin proteins in the wheat pathogen Stagonospora nodorum. Stagonospora nodorum is a fungus that causes leaf and glume blotch disease on wheat. This disease alone causes $55 million dollars in yield losses per annum. Traditional breeding methods have yielded crops that are only mildly resistant leaving control of the disease to be worryingly reliant on fungicides. This project aims to identify and characterise proteins that the fungus secretes to cause disease on wheat. By identifying these proteins, it is anticipated that strategies, both traditional and modern, could be employed to enable better control of the disease. This in turn would help provide a long term and secure supply of wheat and wheat based products to the community.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2009
End Date: 12-2011
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $230,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Molecular Evolution | Plant Biology | Plant Pathology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Other cereals | Wheat |
