Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0776586
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Physiological and molecular characterisation of salinity tolerance in chickpea. Chickpea is a grain legume often grown in rotation with cereal crops to enhance profitability and environmental sustainability of broadacre cropping systems in Australia, and elsewhere. Chickpea is sensitive to salinity, and thus can not be grown on soils affected even by mild salinity. Limited grain legume options currently exist for these soils. This project will improve salt tolerance in chickpea and thus allow it to be grown in areas too saline for current cultivars. The research contributes to the National Research Priority of 'An Environmentally Sustainable Australia', as new cultivars of chickpea with improved salt tolerance will enhance the profitability and sustainability of rotational cropping systems in Australia.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 06-2008
End Date: 12-2012
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $441,724.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Plant Biochemistry And Physiology | Plant Improvement (Selection, Breeding And Genetic Engineering) | Crop and Pasture Production
