Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP150104250
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
CEP peptides provide a new paradigm for improving N-fixation and root shape. Two pivotal goals of agronomic research are to extend the benefits of symbiotic nitrogen fixation resulting from legume interactions with rhizobia, and to improve root architecture so that plants more effectively acquire nutrients and water. This project aims to discover new regulators that are central players in both processes. Applying these regulators to roots should enable legumes to nodulate more, to fix more nitrogen, and to fundamentally alter important aspects of root architecture. Thus, these regulators will be used to enhance nitrogen fixation more widely in legumes and to alter their root architecture to enhance growth. These regulators may find wide utility in improving agriculture in developed and developing countries.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 04-2015
End Date: 12-2018
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $451,900.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Plant Cell and Molecular Biology | Plant Biology | Plant Developmental and Reproductive Biology |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Environmentally Sustainable Plant Production not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences
