Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0879251

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0879251

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Understanding how auxin and dorsoventral patterning are coordinated in plants. This study will help reveal for the first time how the outgrowth of leaves, flowers and floral organs is coordinated by tissue patterning genes and the plant growth hormone auxin. All plants grow in this way, and our findings, made using a model laboratory plant, will be applicable to crop species as well. Thus we will both expand our core knowledge of how multicellular organisms are constructed, and also generate possibilities for modifying the patterns of leaf and flower development in agricultural and horticultural species. Crops with larger leaves, or flowers of different structure, may result.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 31-10-2008

End Date: 10-11-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $957,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Gene Expression | Botany Not Elsewhere Classified | Genetics | Genetic Development (Incl. Sex Determination)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Biological sciences | Botany Not Elsewhere Classified | Gene Expression | Genetic Development (Incl. Sex Determination) | Genetics

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