Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0881545

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0881545

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Enhancement of monopartite geminivirus pathogenicity by satellite DNA beta encoded betaC1 protein: the role of host factors. Australian incursions of geminiviruses are uncontrollable due to their unique mode of spread by whiteflies. The first incursion in Darwin in 1970 has spread to Far Northern Queensland. The second in SE Queensland in 2006 is estimated to cause $500 million loss to horticulture. Our $2 billion cotton industry is threatened by cotton leaf curl diseases from South Asia, where DNA beta enhances virus replication and disease severity. DNA beta has the potential to enter Australia with several different geminiviruses and to spread into others by co-infection, which requires research on detection and pathogenesis of DNA beta.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2008

End Date: 12-2011

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $170,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Protein Targeting And Signal Transduction | Microbiology | Virology | Biotechnology Not Elsewhere Classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Field crops | Horticultural crops not elsewhere classified | Control of pests and exotic species |

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