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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP210103744
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Harnessing genetic diversity for complex traits. Genetic diversity underpins crop improvement but has become increasingly narrow in our major crops. Strategies exist for mobilising simple traits (e.g. disease resistance) from wild accessions or landraces into cultivars, but there are no effective approaches for introducing complex traits, including stress tolerance or components of yield. Using barley as an important crop and a genetic model, the project aims to address this problem by applying a novel approach; partial redomestication of wild accessions by introgressing genes required for modern farming, then evaluating the resulting partially adapted germplasm in hybrids with elite cultivars. The project expects to generate new and diverse germplasm pools for breeding.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2021
End Date: 12-2025
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $629,347.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Plant Developmental and Reproductive Biology | Crop and Pasture Improvement (Selection and Breeding) | Crop and Pasture Production | Biological Adaptation
