Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0986495
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Towards sustainable bioproduction systems: harnessing organic nitrogen for plant growth. It is of great concern that over 50% of nitrogen fertiliser applied to crops is lost to the environment, resulting in a large environmental footprint and greenhouse gas emission. Future farming systems have to reduce nitrogen fertiliser use but this threatens crop and biofuel production. Alternatives to man-made nitrogen fertilisers are crop residues and organic materials which are more stable in soils but less available to plants. How plants can best access organic nitrogen will be explored, based on our recent discovery that plants can use protein as a nitrogen source for growth. The project will produce essential knowledge for nitrogen-efficient bioproduction.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2009
End Date: 05-2012
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $220,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Plant Nutrition | Plant Biology | Plant Physiology
