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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP200101884
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Harnessing peptide hormone outputs to improve root nodulation’s efficacy. This project aims to transform our understanding of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legume root nodules. Root nodulation sustainably fixes sizeable amounts of nitrogen to boost crop production worldwide yet its utilisation is waning in favour of using nitrogen fertilisers. The project applies cutting-edge tools to define how two hormone systems boost and limit nitrogen fixation, respectively. The project expects to reveal ways to reconfigure these hormone outputs to improve nodule number and the efficacy of nitrogen fixation. The findings will benefit agriculture by reducing the reliance on costly nitrogen fertilisers, thus mitigating the huge environmental damage they cause, and will provide more sustainable ways to ensure food security.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 10-2020
End Date: 12-2024
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $465,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Plant Cell and Molecular Biology | Plant Biology | Plant Developmental and Reproductive Biology | Crop and Pasture Improvement (Selection and Breeding)
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Environmentally Sustainable Plant Production not elsewhere classified | Summer Grains and Oilseeds not elsewhere classified | Winter Grains and Oilseeds not elsewhere classified |
