Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FF0348367
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Salinity tolerance and long-distance transport in cereals. The aim of this program is to alter shoot accumulation of solutes in cereals by exploiting novel transgenic technology to manipulate processes in specific cell types in the roots. The primary objective is the generation of cereals which have increased tolerance of saline soils. This is clearly of much agricultural significance in Australia. More general outcomes include the generation of plants with altered concentrations of a range of nutrients in both leaves and grain. This will be of wide agricultural and nutritional benefit, as well as providing an understanding of principles underlying the long-distance co-ordination of processes in plants.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2004
End Date: 12-2008
Funding Scheme: Federation Fellowships
Funding Amount: $1,450,370.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Plant Nutrition | Plant Improvement (Selection, Breeding And Genetic Engineering) | Plant Physiology | Crop and Pasture Production
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Field crops | Rice | Wheat |
