Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160100429

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE160100429

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Unravelling nickel biopathways in tropical hyperaccumulator plants. This project aims to unravel the ways in which hyperaccumulators work. Hyperaccumulators are plants that have the remarkable ability to concentrate up to six per cent nickel in their leaves and up to 25 per cent in their sap. These plants can be used in phytomining – a new technology to recover nickel from mining waste or contaminated land by growing and harvesting these plants and extracting nickel from their biomass. This project seeks to understand how the plants accumulate nickel by using tracers and synchrotron techniques to follow the pathways of nickel from the soil into the plants. This knowledge may help us to optimise agronomic processes affecting nickel uptake to enable successful phytomining.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 31-12-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $367,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Ecology | Environmental Chemistry (incl. Atmospheric Chemistry) | Soil Chemistry (excl. Carbon Sequestration Science) | Ecological Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Environmentally Sustainable Mineral Resource Activities not elsewhere classified | Rehabilitation of Degraded Mining Environments | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Ecological Physiology | Ecology | Environmental Chemistry (incl. Atmospheric Chemistry) | Environmentally Sustainable Mineral Resource Activities not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Rehabilitation of Degraded Mining Environments | Soil Chemistry (excl. Carbon Sequestration Science)

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