Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0665363

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0665363

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Elucidating the interactions between drought tolerance and photoprotection in plants. The 2002-03 drought cost Australia in the order of $10Billion and 70,000 jobs. Associated with reduced rainfall is increased sunlight irradiance, which exacerbates the reduction in crop yield due to the combined damage of a water deficit and oxidative damage caused by the excess light. Plants have networks of responses to minimise damage due to drought and excess light. We have identified a novel class of genes that optimise or alter different aspects of these networks and we wish to define the nature of that optimisation to determine how it could be transfered to crop plants.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2006

End Date: 31-12-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $469,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Gene Expression | Protein Targeting And Signal Transduction | Plant Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Field crops | Land and water management | Field crops not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Field crops | Field crops not elsewhere classified | Gene Expression | Land and water management | Plant Physiology | Protein Targeting And Signal Transduction

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