Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP180101011
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Australia’s native sorghums. This project aims to investigate the biological mechanisms driving the evolution of toxic cyanogenic glucosides by exploiting the natural diversity of Australian wild relatives of the crop sorghum that are adapted to different environments. Wild crop relatives are an important source of traits for improving their cultivated counterparts. Analysing the diversity and evolution of Australia’s 17 native sorghum species will provide new understanding of how plants have adapted to environmental challenges across diverse Australian environments. This should provide significant benefit by providing new resources for plant breeders to produce more climate-resilient crops.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 04-2018
End Date: 12-2021
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $470,707.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Plant Biology | Genomics | Plant Physiology | Crop and Pasture Biochemistry and Physiology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity of environments not elsewhere classified | Climate Change Adaptation Measures | Sorghum |
