Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0665467

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0665467

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Plant cell wall - aluminium interactions: a role in aluminium stress. Soil acidity, resulting in Al toxicity, affects production on circa 50% of Australia's intensively used agricultural land, resulting in 8.5 times more foregone agricultural income than dryland salinity (National Land and Water Resources Audit, 2001). Often, remediation with lime is not possible or affordable. By understanding Al reactions with cell wall components, we aim to identify root parameters related to Al resistance by plants. These parameters will be useful as selection markers to identify and breed Al-tolerant crop genotypes. This, in turn, will improve yields and farm profitability, allowing farmers to use lime to prevent further acidification. This increases sustainability of cropping operations on the 50 Mha with acid soils.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2006

End Date: 31-12-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $415,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Plant Biochemistry And Physiology | Analytical Spectrometry | Crop and Pasture Production | Characterisation Of Macromolecules

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Field crops | Land and water management | Wheat |

Other Keywords

Analytical Spectrometry | Characterisation Of Macromolecules | Crop and Pasture Production | Field crops | Land and water management | Plant Biochemistry And Physiology | Wheat

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