Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160102888

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160102888

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Smoke-derived karrikins reveal a new pathway for plant development. This project aims to investigate a recently discovered signalling system in plants that requires an unknown hormone to regulate seed germination and seedling growth. Burning vegetation produces karrikins that promote seed germination by signalling through a recently identified plant protein. Plants do not make karrikins and impairments to this protein results in increased seed dormancy and abnormal leaf growth, suggesting karrikins mimic an unknown plant hormone that regulates these aspects of plant development. The project aims to identify this phytohormone and elucidate its biosynthetic pathway. The identification of this new plant growth regulator would be a major advance for plant science and may create new opportunities in restoration ecology, weed control and food production.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 31-03-2016

End Date: 31-12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $516,300.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Plant Biology not elsewhere classified | Plant Biology | Natural Products Chemistry | Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Plant Production and Plant Primary Products not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Natural Products Chemistry | Plant Biology | Plant Biology not elsewhere classified | Plant Production and Plant Primary Products not elsewhere classified

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