Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP190102725
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Channels for improved crop salt and water stress tolerance. Water and salt are critical factors for the Australian agricultural industry. Crops use proteins called aquaporins to move water across cell membranes, and a newly discovered subset of these proteins can also transport salts. This project aims to reveal the molecular pathways that regulate water and salt transport via aquaporins using multidisciplinary techniques in genetics, molecular biology and electrophysiology. These results will provide novel insights into how plants coordinate and adapt to changing water and salt conditions, answering key questions in plant physiology. Benefits include an expanded, innovative range of targets for plant breeding programs to improve plant productivity in our changing climate.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 06-2019
End Date: 12-2022
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $410,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Plant Cell and Molecular Biology | Plant Biology | Plant Physiology | Crop and Pasture Biochemistry and Physiology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Industrial Crops not elsewhere classified | Plant Production and Plant Primary Products not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |
