Delivering defences: using fungi to enhance plant resistance to herbivory

提供防御：利用真菌增强植物对食草动物的抵抗力

• 批准号: DE220100479
• 负责人: Dr Adam Frew
• 金额: $ 32.63万
• 依托单位: Western Sydney University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE220100479
• 关键词: Delivering; defences; using; fungi; enhance

This project will identify how the diversity of beneficial fungi in the soil is affected by agricultural management, and will reveal how these fungi govern the ability of plants to defend themselves from insect herbivores. Through innovative field surveys and experimentation, this project will generate new knowledge in the key areas of soil ecology and plant defence. This will allow us to exploit these soil fungi to enhance crop protection while simultaneously conserving soil ecosystems. Effectively boosting plant defence in this way will reduce reliance on ecologically damaging pesticides, promote soil biodiversity, and ensure the sustainability of crop production into the future.

该项目将确定土壤中有益真菌的多样性如何受到农业管理的影响，并将揭示这些真菌如何控制植物抵御昆虫食草动物的能力。通过创新的实地调查和实验，该项目将在土壤生态和植物防御的关键领域产生新的知识。这将使我们能够利用这些土壤真菌来加强作物保护，同时保护土壤生态系统。通过这种方式有效地加强植物防御，将减少对破坏生态的农药的依赖，促进土壤生物多样性，并确保未来作物生产的可持续性。