Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0771664

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0771664

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Biofertiliser technology for improved yields and environmental sustainability of rice and wheat crops. Australia faces the double challenge of improving the efficiency of its crop production while minimising the agricultural impact on its fragile biodiversity. Our project will meet this challenge by providing the technology for using natural biofertilisers in cereal crops. This will reduce our heavy reliance on chemical fertilisers - with associated soil loss, salinity and acidity, and high demand on scarce water resources - and significantly increase our crop yields. Our advances will help Australian farmers to reduce the costs and increase the productivity of our substantial export crops while improving their environmental sustainability.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 17-01-2007

End Date: 16-01-2010

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $420,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Microbial Genetics | Soil Biology | Plant Improvement (Selection, Breeding And Genetic Engineering) | Microbiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Field crops | Rice | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Biological sciences | Field crops | Microbial Genetics | Microbiology | Plant Improvement (Selection, Breeding And Genetic Engineering) | Rice | Soil Biology

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