Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP160104434
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Optimising crop root systems to enhance capture of soil water and nutrients. The project’s goal is to improve crop breeding for increased efficiency of acquiring soil resources. Increasing a crop’s efficiency in capturing soil resources (water and nutrients) is an imperative task in ensuring food security. This project plans to use barley as the model cereal crop and characterise root traits in a panel of cultivars assembled to represent maximum diversity as well as in biparental mapping population followed by association and linkage mapping to identify genetic markers linked with specific root traits. These markers will be incorporated into a computer model of 3-D root structure and function. The enhanced computer model would be able to simulate optimal root systems for specific environments and generate a list of selectable root-trait markers.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2016
End Date: 12-2019
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $447,700.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Crop and Pasture Nutrition | Crop and Pasture Production | Crop and Pasture Biochemistry and Physiology
