Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP100100659

Funded Activity Summary

Redirecting Carbon Flow through Mesophyll and Bundle Sheath Cells of Sugarcane to Produce Poly-3-Hydroxybutyrate. This project is part of the National Priorities "Frontier Technologies for Building and Transforming Australian Industries." Using innovative plant metabolic engineering technologies combined with sophisticated computer modeling we are generating green plants that produce renewable, biodegradable, bioplastics possessing properties such that they are suitable replacements for petroleum-derived products in many applications. During the course of these studies, we are increasing our basic level of understanding of plant metabolism of important bioenergy crops. The production of renewable, bioplastics in sugarcane will help to diversify the Australian sugarcane industry by providing a value-added product with significant world-wide markets.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 10-09-2010

End Date: 09-09-2015

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $1,678,558.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Gene Expression (incl. Microarray and other genome-wide approaches) | Plant Cell and Molecular Biology | Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Systems Biology | Cell Metabolism | Global Change Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Sugar | Field crops not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Cell Metabolism | Field crops not elsewhere classified | Gene Expression (incl. Microarray and other genome-wide approaches) | Global Change Biology | Plant Cell and Molecular Biology | Sugar | Systems Biology

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