Towards genome methylation based crop improvement. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) methylation is a form of genetic control that regulates crop performance and the crop's response to the environment. Improving understanding of the inheritance of methylation in relation to crop performance will provide the basis for methylation based breeding for climate resilient crops.
Advancing our understanding of plant responses to low phosphorus availability beyond the transcriptome. Phosphorus is essential for plant growth. Plants have evolved mechanisms to cope with the poor availability of phosphorus in many soils. This project will improve Australia's knowledge of how plants alter the expression of genes and proteins to activate their mechanisms for coping with poor phosphorus availability in some soils.