Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160101028

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160101028

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Reserving nitrogen in soils through microbial nitrate reduction to ammonium. This project aims to identify those microbes able to transform nitrate to ammonium and thus increase soil nitrogen conservation. More than 50 per cent of the nitrogen in fertilisers applied to soils is lost into the environment, which is both a financial loss to farmers and a main anthropogenic source of nitrogen pollution. Some microbes can transform nitrate into ammonium through dissimilatory reduction (DNRA) and thus increase soil nitrogen retention. However, the DNRA process and the responsible microbial groups remain largely unknown. This project plans to use isotope tracing and biomolecular approaches to identify those DNRA microbial groups and elucidate the DNRA reaction process. The findings may support the use of DNRA to improve soil nitrogen.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 31-12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $248,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Microbial Ecology | Terrestrial Ecology | Ecology | Soil Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Sparseland, Permanent Grassland and Arid Zone Soils | Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Soils | Forest and Woodlands Soils |

Other Keywords

Ecology | Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Soils | Forest and Woodlands Soils | Microbial Ecology | Soil Biology | Sparseland, Permanent Grassland and Arid Zone Soils | Terrestrial Ecology

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