Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE200101748

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE200101748

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Discovering hidden control elements for crop improvement. Sustainable, productive agricultural processes are essential for tackling the challenges of tomorrow’s world. The ability to optimise beneficial agricultural traits depends on the precise control of genes in a crop plant’s enormous genome. Yet, identifying valuable gene control regions is like looking for needles in a haystack. The location of these regions is often not obvious and current detection technologies are impractically expensive and intensive. This project aims to develop a new technology that is expected to facilitate rapid and cost-effective discovery of all the control regions in a genome, enhancing our understanding of crop genomes and unlocking new avenues for agricultural improvement, food security and economic stability.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 03-02-2020

End Date: 31-12-2023

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $410,716.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics) | Plant Cell and Molecular Biology | Sustainable Agricultural Development | Genetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Maize | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Sorghum |

Other Keywords

Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics) | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Genetics | Maize | Plant Cell and Molecular Biology | Sorghum | Sustainable Agricultural Development

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