Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0984790

Funding Activity

Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0984790

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Identifying potential barriers to transplanting modified forms of the CO2-fixing enzyme, Rubisco, into plants. Improving the ability of crops to use water, light and fertiliser more efficiently would have economic benefits and ease the environmental impacts associated with agricultural practices. It is thought that such improvements can be made by enhancing the efficiency of the photosynthetic protein, Rubisco, which fixes most of the CO2 in the biosphere. The research proposed here uses unique Rubisco transplantation capabilities that I have developed to improve our fundamental understanding of how Rubisco is processed and its activity regulated in plants. This will pave the way for our ongoing efforts to engineer and transplant more efficient Rubisco into crops.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 01-06-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $280,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Agricultural Biotechnology | Genetic Technologies: Transformation, Site-Directed Mutagenesis, Etc. | Genetic Engineering And Enzyme Technology | Plant Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Field crops | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Agricultural Biotechnology | Biological sciences | Field crops | Genetic Engineering And Enzyme Technology | Genetic Technologies: Transformation, Site-Directed Mutagenesis, Etc. | Plant Physiology

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