Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0666109

Funding Activity

Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0666109

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Traversing a treacherous landscape: Modelling caterpillar movement and behaviour on whole plants at multiple scales. How caterpillars move on plants and where they feed is central to developing plants resistant to these insect pests. Our research program will generate computer models of caterpillar behaviour on virtual plants that interact in realistic ways with the changing structure of the plant as it grows, its micro-architecture and environment. We provide a set of tools that will form the cornerstone of important future research agendas in the ecology of foraging caterpillars, optimisation of insecticide spray application, and the development of novel genetically transformed plants for insect control central to the future of Australian agriculture.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2006

End Date: 31-12-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $366,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Virtual Reality And Related Simulation | Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology | Botany Not Elsewhere Classified | Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Field crops | Computer software and services not elsewhere classified | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing | Biological sciences | Botany Not Elsewhere Classified | Computer software and services not elsewhere classified | Field crops | Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology | Virtual Reality And Related Simulation

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