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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0776635
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Targeted approaches to improve nitrogen use efficiency in maize. Nitrogen is an essential input required for growing high yielding quality cereal crops such as maize and wheat. Unfortunately, excessive use of nitrogen fertilizers can lead to serious environmental costs including nitrogen pollution through leaching and the significant cost in non-renewable fossil fuels used in their production. Improving nitrogen use efficiency in crops such as maize will reduce fertilizer use while ensuring long-term sustainable production and harvestable yields. This collaboration with DuPont-Pioneer will focus on identifying nitrogen-linked traits in Maize that will be incorporated into new lines targeted at reducing grower dependence on nitrogen fertilizers.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 12-2007
End Date: 12-2010
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $900,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Plant Nutrition | Plant Improvement (Selection, Breeding And Genetic Engineering) | Membrane Biology | Crop and Pasture Production
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Field crops | Other cereals | Wheat |
