Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE170100054

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE170100054

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

How plants respond to cell wall signals. This project aims to discover mechanisms of plant cell wall signalling and modify plant cell walls for improved food, textiles, building materials and renewable biofuels without inadvertently activating cell wall signalling. However, attempts to improve cell walls have been ineffective because it is not known how plants use cell wall signalling to sense and compensate for cell wall changes. This project expects to develop both a genetic screen to find mutants defective in cell wall signal transduction and a bioinformatic tool to compare genomes across species and discover cell wall signalling components. Potential benefits include addressing Australian research priorities: Food, Environmental Change, and Energy.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2017

End Date: 18-06-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $372,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Plant Cell and Molecular Biology | Plant Biology | Signal Transduction

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Plant Production and Plant Primary Products not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Production of Biofuels (Biomass) |

Other Keywords

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Plant Biology | Plant Cell and Molecular Biology | Plant Production and Plant Primary Products not elsewhere classified | Production of Biofuels (Biomass) | Signal Transduction

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