Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP200200813
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
A soil ecological approach to increasing Australian crop productivity. The objective of this project is to use emerging genomics technologies to identify and characterize soil bacteria that allow the replacement of current agricultural fertilisers, which have significant environmental and economic disadvantages, with sustainable biological fertilisers. Soil bacteria can greatly enhance phosphate solubilization and hence availability for plant growth. Beneficial microbes will be identified from our existing soil collection and their performance and persistence optimised. Concurrently, our industry partners will develop suitable microbial formulations for application. The outcomes of the project will be the use of biological fertilisers to enhance crop productivity in an environmentally sustainable manner.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 11-2021
End Date: 11-2025
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $642,434.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Crop and Pasture Production not elsewhere classified | Soil Sciences | Soil Biology | Crop and Pasture Nutrition
