Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150100460

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE150100460

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Role of DNA methylation in response to low nutrient availability in plants. DNA methylation (mC) is a covalent modification of DNA essential for the establishment and maintenance of correct gene expression patterns and recently suggested to be responsive to some environmental cues in plants. Using cutting edge technologies, this project aims to identify nutrient stress-induced mC changes and investigate the role that these changes may play in transcriptional regulation, as well as assessing whether these changes can be transmitted to the next generation to confer intergenerational stress responsiveness. Altogether this project aims to provide fundamental knowledge of the role of mC in plant gene regulation and stress response as well as paving the way for the next generation of novel crop-improvement strategies.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 31-08-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $380,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics) | Plant Cell and Molecular Biology | Genomics | Genetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Environmentally Sustainable Plant Production not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Environmentally Sustainable Plant Production not elsewhere classified | Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics) | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Genetics | Genomics | Plant Cell and Molecular Biology

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