Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160101570

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE160101570

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Inducible hyper-expression as a tool for metabolic engineering. This project aims to develop methods to improve plant natural products yields and diversify the products manufactured from a wide array of plant species. Valuable plant metabolites, including chemotherapeutics and opiates, are usually synthesised in minute amounts and can be so complex they can’t be chemically manufactured, limiting their use and affordability. This project aims to develop an inducible system that confers hyper-elevated levels of gene expression and independent control of multiple genes involved in metabolite synthesis in the same host. This technology is expected to enable flexible multi-trait bio-factories to be developed.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-02-2016

End Date: 04-11-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $352,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Plant Cell and Molecular Biology | Plant Biology | Agricultural Molecular Engineering of Nucleic Acids and Proteins | Genetically Modified Field Crops and Pasture

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Industrial Crops not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Agricultural Molecular Engineering of Nucleic Acids and Proteins | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Genetically Modified Field Crops and Pasture | Industrial Crops not elsewhere classified | Plant Biology | Plant Cell and Molecular Biology

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