Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP150100479
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Making Green Guard® greener: enhancing the efficacy of a biopesticide. The project aims to identify naturally occurring micro-organisms to increase the effectiveness of Green Guard ®, which is a biopesticide used against the Australian plague locust. The project will use next-generation sequencing and other molecular techniques to potentially identify candidate microbes or combinations of microbes that can be added to Green Guard to enhance locust susceptibility. The project also aims to quantify the interactive impact of temperature and nutrition on immune function, disease resistance and host-plant quality of plague locusts; and to explore the combined effects of temperature, habitat and Green Guard, in combination with candidate microbes or pathogens, on the behaviour and collective movement of locusts. It is anticipated that this will have implications for management and control strategies.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 02-2016
End Date: 06-2018
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $385,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Infectious Agents | Ecology | Crop and Pasture Protection (Pests, Diseases and Weeds) | Ecological Physiology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Control of Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species at Regional or Larger Scales | Control of Animal Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species in Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Environments |
