Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0984773

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0984773

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Photosynthetically active bicarbonate transporters from cyanobacteria & their rational redesign for application in engineered crops that use less water. Marine blue-green algae are critical components of global primary productivity and fisheries productivity but CO2 acquisition processes in these organisms are poorly understood. Our aim is to determine the protein structure and regulatory controls present in two classes of cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporters that are required for efficient photosynthesis. This information is now critical to the our goal of redesigning these bicarbonate transporters so they will be functional in plants, thereby contributing to the applied objective of engineering crop plants that could produce good grain yields with reduced water requirements.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 31-05-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $285,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Plant Biology | Biochemistry And Cell Biology Not Elsewhere Classified | Membrane Biology | Plant Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Field crops | Oceanic processes (excl. climate related) | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Biochemistry And Cell Biology Not Elsewhere Classified | Biological sciences | Field crops | Membrane Biology | Oceanic processes (excl. climate related) | Plant Biology | Plant Physiology

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