Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP150100826

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP150100826

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Crop improvement using peptide regulators of growth and N demand signalling. This project aims to reduce reliance on nitrogen fertilisers without reducing crop yield. Global food security relies on using high-yielding grain varieties and nitrogen-based fertilisers. Since 1950, fertiliser use has increased 20-fold but the yield benefits of this use are declining. Crops only absorb 30–50 per cent of the applied fertiliser and the unused nitrogen causes environmental damage which is costly to mitigate. The novel technology platform of the project aims to develop new crops with more expansive root systems that use applied nitrogen fertiliser more efficiently and new legume varieties that symbiotically fix more nitrogen in an ecologically-sustainable way.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 10-12-2015

End Date: 31-12-2018

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $240,870.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Plant Cell and Molecular Biology | Plant Biology | Plant Developmental and Reproductive Biology | Crop and Pasture Biochemistry and Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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

Other Keywords

Crop and Pasture Biochemistry and Physiology | Environmentally Sustainable Plant Production not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Plant Biology | Plant Cell and Molecular Biology | Plant Developmental and Reproductive Biology

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