Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP150100798

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP150100798

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Adding value to blue mallee plantations. The project aims to develop the tools and knowledge required for establishing and enhancing the profitability of plantations of blue mallee (Eucalyptus polybractea). This is important because mallees have considerable potential for sustainable essential oil and biomass production in low rainfall regions, and they can sequester considerable amounts of carbon in their below-ground parts. The project intends to produce trees with improved oil quality and yields through chromosome doubling and breeding, and to dissect the mechanisms that underpin essential oil production through the production of mutants and studies of the main monoterpene producing enzyme.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 10-2015

End Date: 02-2019

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $395,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Plant Biology | Plant Physiology | Forestry Biomass and Bioproducts

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Integration of Farm and Forestry | Forestry not elsewhere classified |

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