Cereal blueprints for a water-limited world

水资源有限的世界的谷物蓝图

• 批准号: DP190102185
• 负责人: Prof Andrew Borrell
• 金额: $ 41.44万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2019-03-27 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP190102185
• 关键词: Cereal; blueprints; water; limited; world

This project aims to demonstrate that key developmental genes in cereals can be manipulated to design plant architecture for specific resource-limited environments. Producing more food with less water is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today. This project expects to increase understanding of how shoot and root systems can be uncoupled to enhance crop adaptation in water-limited environments using an accelerated genome editing approach. An expected outcome of the project is enhanced drought adaptation for cereals in a dry world. This should provide significant benefits to farmers and consumers in Australia and worldwide.

该项目旨在证明谷物中的关键发育基因可以被操纵来设计特定资源有限环境下的植物结构。用更少的水生产更多的食物是当今人类面临的最大挑战之一。该项目希望通过加速基因组编辑方法，增进对如何将茎和根系统解耦以增强作物在缺水环境中的适应性的理解。该项目的一个预期成果是增强干旱世界谷物的干旱适应能力。这将为澳大利亚和世界各地的农民和消费者带来重大利益。