Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP100100143
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Evolution of halophytes: a phyloinformatic approach to understanding and exploiting the traits underlying salt-tolerance in plants. Salinity is an increasing burden on the Australian economy & environment, with >2 million ha of salt-affected land, at an annual cost to agriculture over $187 million. One solution is to exploit naturally salt-tolerant plants to increase productive agricultural land and restore salt-affected environments. To do this, we must increase basic knowledge of the diversity & distribution of salt-tolerance. This project is the first to use DNA sequences from thousands of species to understand the evolution of salt-tolerance in order to provide the foundation for the development of new crop varieties, selection of species that can be developed for bioremediation, and identification of traits that will be profitable targets for breeding programs.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 03-2011
End Date: 12-2014
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $233,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Plant Biology not elsewhere classified | Agriculture, Land and Farm Management not elsewhere classified | Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified | Evolutionary Biology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Field crops | Biological sciences | Rehabilitation of degraded farmland |
