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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP180100721
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Optimising plant populations for ecological restoration and resilience. When choosing individual plants for restoration populations, there is potentially a trade-off between maximising genetic diversity (‘adaptability’) and selection for desirable properties (‘adaptation’). This project aims to develop pioneering methods to quantify this trade-off, and facilitate the design of optimised populations, with a focus on two Australian rainforest trees that are being impacted by myrtle rust infection: Rhodamnia argentea and Rhodamnia rubescens. By studying the genetic variation in each species, and how this relates to myrtle rust resistance and climate, this project aims to design populations that are genetically diverse, maximally resistant to myrtle rust, and adapted to future climate.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 02-2020
End Date: 06-2023
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $374,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Genomics | Ecological Impacts of Climate Change | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | Genetics |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Control of Plant Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species in Forest and Woodlands Environments | Forest and Woodlands Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity
