Early Career Industry Fellowships - Grant ID: IE230100179
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$457,906.00
Summary
Drought tolerance in sorghum: the roots of the solution. This project aims to develop an efficient, cost-effective sensing platform for visualising sorghum root systems in the field. Through innovative use of above and below ground sensing technologies, this project expects to generate new knowledge on the association between root structure and improved yield stability under drought stress. Expected outcomes include improved capacity for sorghum breeders and new digital agriculture products and ....Drought tolerance in sorghum: the roots of the solution. This project aims to develop an efficient, cost-effective sensing platform for visualising sorghum root systems in the field. Through innovative use of above and below ground sensing technologies, this project expects to generate new knowledge on the association between root structure and improved yield stability under drought stress. Expected outcomes include improved capacity for sorghum breeders and new digital agriculture products and services to support the industry more broadly. Given that sorghum is the main summer cereal grown in Australia, this should provide significant benefits, such as improved productivity and profitability for the Australian agriculture sector. Read moreRead less
Australia’s native sorghums. This project aims to investigate the biological mechanisms driving the evolution of toxic cyanogenic glucosides by exploiting the natural diversity of Australian wild relatives of the crop sorghum that are adapted to different environments. Wild crop relatives are an important source of traits for improving their cultivated counterparts. Analysing the diversity and evolution of Australia’s 17 native sorghum species will provide new understanding of how plants have ad ....Australia’s native sorghums. This project aims to investigate the biological mechanisms driving the evolution of toxic cyanogenic glucosides by exploiting the natural diversity of Australian wild relatives of the crop sorghum that are adapted to different environments. Wild crop relatives are an important source of traits for improving their cultivated counterparts. Analysing the diversity and evolution of Australia’s 17 native sorghum species will provide new understanding of how plants have adapted to environmental challenges across diverse Australian environments. This should provide significant benefit by providing new resources for plant breeders to produce more climate-resilient crops.Read moreRead less
Fertility crisis: harnessing the genomic tension behind pollen fertility in sorghum. Hybrid sorghum varieties yield more grain than inbred varieties but the production seed for farmers can be difficult. This project will identify the genes responsible for a trait that makes hybrid seed production possible and this knowledge will help raise sorghum yields in Australian and in some of the world’s poorest countries.