Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FS100100022
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Developing biotechnology solutions for improving phosphate acquisition in plants using functional genomics in rice. Global supplies of the most currently used phosphate fertilisers are predicted to be exhausted in less than a century. These fertilisers are non-renewable resources based on phosphate rock deposits and their use are key drivers of both plant production costs and environmental damage in Australia and internationally. Using the power of genetic and functional genomics analyses in rice, this project will reveal key controllers of phosphate acquisition in plants. Hence, novel biotechnology based solutions can be implemented in a variety of cereal crops to aid reduced use of phosphate fertiliser in agriculture and unlock the large phosphate pool not used by plants in soil.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 02-2011
End Date: 06-2014
Funding Scheme: Super Science Fellowships
Funding Amount: $835,200.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Plant Cell and Molecular Biology | Plant Biology | Plant Physiology | Genetically Modified Field Crops and Pasture
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Environmentally Sustainable Plant Production not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences | Rice |
