ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT170100195

Funded Activity Summary

Phosphorus-efficient Australian plants: applications for crop improvement. This project aims to investigate ways to improve the phosphorus (P) efficiency of selected crops (Lupinus) in Australia. The phosphorus impoverished soils in Australia has allowed the evolution of plants that are highly efficient at acquiring and using phosphorus. Increasing understanding of highly-efficient phosphorus use mechanisms at the physiological, biochemical, anatomical and molecular biological levels will provide knowledge of traits to guide breeding efforts to develop more phosphorus efficient crops that can perform well in P-limited environments; an outstanding strategy to balance the phosphorus demand for increasing global food production with gradually decreasing non-renewable phosphorus reserves. An expected outcome of this project is to develop crops better able to use scarce phosphorus.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-10-2017

End Date: 30-09-2022

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $757,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Plant Cell and Molecular Biology | Plant Biology | Plant Physiology | Analytical Biochemistry

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Environmentally Sustainable Plant Production not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Lupins |

Other Keywords

Analytical Biochemistry | Environmentally Sustainable Plant Production not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Lupins | Plant Biology | Plant Cell and Molecular Biology | Plant Physiology

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