Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0211421

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0211421

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Optimising the Strategy for Breeding Micronutrient-Dense Staple Foods that Improve Human health and Nutrition. The project is part of a new paradigm for agriculture in which staple crops are bred with greater micronutrient density to improve human health. It generates strategic basic information on how nutrients interact in the body of animal models in absorption, transport and utilisation that will allow plant breeders to optimise the breeding strategy for maximum outcomes in health and minimum breeding cost. Animals deficient in the nutrients of most concern (iron, zinc, vitamin A - and inulin) will be fed new varieties with enhanced levels of these factors, and from the responses, a superior strategy will be developed.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2002

End Date: 12-2004

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $258,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Plant Nutrition | Animal Nutrition | Plant Improvement (Selection, Breeding And Genetic Engineering) | Animal Production

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Consumption patterns, population issues and the environment | Field crops | Nutrition |

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