{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT250100237"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"FT250100237","attributes":{"code":"FT250100237","administering-organisation":"La Trobe University","announcement-administering-organisation":"La Trobe University","scheme-name":"ARC Future Fellowships","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2025,"years-funded":4,"project-start-date":"2026-01-01","anticipated-end-date":"2029-12-31","grant-summary":"Harnessing transcription factors for nitrogen efficient crops. Nitrogen fertiliser is essential for crop production, but it is expensive and negatively impacts our health and the environment. This project aims to investigate the regulatory mechanism of a family of genes that controls nitrogen acquisition in cereal and legume crops. This project expects to generate new knowledge around gene expression regulation and plant nutrient acquisition. Expected outcomes of this project include an enhanced capacity to develop major cereal and legume crops with desirable traits, including efficient nitrogen use. This should provide significant benefits, such as reduced nitrogen fertiliser use and improved environmental outcomes for the primary industries.","funding-current":997813.00,"funding-at-announcement":976696,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Dugald","familyName":"Reid","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0001-9291-9775 "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Dugald","familyName":"Reid","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0001-9291-9775 "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"La Trobe University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"VIC"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"La Trobe University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"VIC"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":false,"code":"300103","name":"Agricultural Molecular Engineering of Nucleic Acids and Proteins","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":true,"code":"3108","name":"Plant Biology","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"310803","name":"Plant Cell and Molecular Biology","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"260301","name":"Barley","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"260303","name":"Grain Legumes","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":["Denmark","Singapore"],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"Nitrogen is essential for growing plants, and we currently use large amounts of nitrogen fertilisers to grow our crops. Producing and using these fertilisers is expensive and causes significant environmental problems including accounting for approximately 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. This problem is exacerbated because for cereal crops like wheat less than half of applied fertiliser ends up in the harvested grain. Legumes like chickpeas get their nitrogen from bacteria in the soil (nitrogen fixation), however inefficiencies in their biology mean legumes often get only half their nitrogen this way. This project will investigate the control of nitrogen uptake by cereal crops and the rate of nitrogen fixation by legume crops, providing critical new knowledge to enable the development of varieties with improved nitrogen use efficiency and reduce nitrogen fertiliser use. Australian agriculture would benefit from a reduced environmental footprint of our food production, increased profitability for farmers, and commercial opportunities arising from improved genetic material that could be used in plant breeding programs worldwide. Future translation of the knowledge and genetic material developed in the project will be enabled through partnership with plant breeders, trials with grower groups and presentations to industry conferences and key stakeholders such as the Grains Research and Development Corporation."}}}