Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0450564

Funding Activity

Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0450564

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Practical strategies for engineering the CO2-fixing enzyme, Rubisco, whose subunits are encoded in different subcellular compartments. My recent replacement of the plant CO2-fixing enzyme, Rubisco, with a less efficient bacterial version, with a single type of subunit encoded by a single gene, demonstrated the feasibility of replacing Rubisco. This encourages ongoing attempts to replace plant Rubisco with more efficient versions that would allow the plants to grow with less water, fertiliser or light. The most efficient Rubiscos are more complex, with two different types of subunits which, in plants, are encoded in different subcellular compartments (nucleus and plastid). This proposal addresses the challenges associated with complementary engineering both genomes to substitute foreign Rubiscos into higher-plant chloroplasts.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-03-2004

End Date: 28-02-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $515,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Agricultural Biotechnology | Genetic Engineering And Enzyme Technology | Gene Expression | Plant Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Agricultural Biotechnology | Biological sciences | Gene Expression | Genetic Engineering And Enzyme Technology | Plant Physiology

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