A soil ecological approach to increasing Australian crop productivity

该项目的目标是利用新兴的基因组学技术来识别和表征土壤细菌，从而可以用可持续的生物肥料取代目前具有重大环境和经济劣势的农业肥料。土壤细菌能显著提高磷的溶解能力，从而提高植物生长的有效性。有益微生物将从我们现有的土壤收集中识别出来，并优化其性能和持久性。与此同时，我们的行业合作伙伴将开发适合应用的微生物制剂。该项目的成果将是使用生物肥料，以环境可持续的方式提高作物生产力。

The objective of this project is to use emerging genomics technologies to identify and characterize soil bacteria that allow the replacement of current agricultural fertilisers, which have significant environmental and economic disadvantages, with sustainable biological fertilisers. Soil bacteria can greatly enhance phosphate solubilization and hence availability for plant growth. Beneficial microbes will be identified from our existing soil collection and their performance and persistence optimised. Concurrently, our industry partners will develop suitable microbial formulations for application. The outcomes of the project will be the use of biological fertilisers to enhance crop productivity in an environmentally sustainable manner.