Competitive Research Grants in the area of Plant Breeding and Genetics at UWA – 09/10
Funding
School/Centre
Title
Project
Lifespan
Supervisors
COGGO
CLIMA
2 years
2010-12
GRDC
UWA, CSIRO and
WAIMR
Plant Biology
Accelerated Genetic Improvement of Desi Chickpea: an
International Partnership between DAWA, CLIMA,
ICRISAT and COGGO - Phase II
Lupin genome sequencing
Prof Kadambot Siddique
ksiddique@fnas.uwa.edu.au
Dr Tanveer Khan
Adj. /Prof Karam Singh
Karam.Singh@csiro.au
A/Prof Wallace Cowling
wcowling@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
DIISR AustraliaChina ISL grant
Improving food and biofuel production in changing
climates development of new Brassica polyploids in
Australia and China
A Foundation grant to intercross pea lines in
preparation for a future ARC Linkage research project
and variety release
Sponsorship for OECD-Conference
3 years from
2010
2 years
2009-2010
COGGO / NPZ
CLIMA
1 year 09/10
A/Prof Wallace Cowling
wcowling@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
GRDC
Plant Biology
1 year 2009
A/Prof Wallace Cowling
wcowling@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Prof William Erskine
A/Prof Susan Barker
william.erskine@uwa.edu.au
Dr Jon Clements
clem@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Prof William Erskine
Dr Ping Si
william.erskine@uwa.edu.au
Dr Bevan Buirchell
Dr Jon Clements
bbuirchell@agric.wa.gov.au
Dr Jon Clements
clem@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
A/Prof Tim Colmer.
Prof Kadambot Siddique,
Professor Tim Flowers,
Dr Vicent Vadez,
Dr Rajeev Varshney
Dr Pooran Gaur
tdcolmer@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
A/Prof Wallace Cowling
Dr Matthew Nelson
wcowling@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
GRDC
CLIMA
Generation of genetically-modified herbicide tolerant
narrow leaf lupin
6 years 0915
GRDC
CLIMA
GRDC
CLIMA
Interspecific hybrids in lupins- Stabilisation and trait
transfer to fixed lines for lupin crop improvement
Improved herbicide tolerance for break crops
4 years
08/09-11/12
3 years
08/09-10/11
GRDC
CLIMA
Higher yielding elite lines of pearl lupin for Australian
agriculture
3 years
08/09-10/11
RIRDC
CLIMA
Quinoa as a new crop in Australia
ARC Linkage
(Partners COGGO
and ICRISAT)
CLIMA / Plant
Biology
Physiological and molecular characterization of salinity
tolerance in chickpea
3 years
08/09-10/11
4 years
2008-11
GRDC
Plant Biology
Capacity building in plant breeding education and
research at The University of Western Australia
3 years
07/08–09/10
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ARC Linkage
(Partners Aztech &
DAFWA)
Plant Biology /
CLIMA
Breeding pea weevil resistance pea cultivars through
interspecific hybridisation
4 years
07/08-10/11
GRDC (with FFI
CRC)
CRC FFI
Development of a salt- and waterlogging-tolerant wheat
3 years
07/08-09/10
RIRDC
CLIMA
Native Legumes as a Grain Crop for diversification in
Australia
2 years
07/08-09/10
ARC Linkage
(Partners Aztech &
DEC).
Plant Biology /
Murdoch Uni.
Susceptibility to Phytophthora and sensitivity to
phosphorus in Native Australian plants: why they are
linked
5 years 0711
ARC Linkage
(Partner DAFWA)
CLIMA
4 years
06/07-09/10
ACIAR / AUSAID
CLIMA
Molecular approaches for the exploitation of genetic
diversity in subterranean clover (Trifolium subterranean
L) for profitable Australian farming systems
Seeds of Life (SOL2) in E Timor
ARC Linkage
(Partner COGGO)
CLIMA
4 years
05/06-08/09
ARC Linkage
Earth and
Geographical
Sciences
Accelerating the genetic improvement of grain legumes
for Australia by developing double haploid technology
for field pea and chickpea
Improving Australian germplasm for tolerance to
waterlogging and microelement toxicities
COGGO
CLIMA
6 years
04/05-09/10
ARC-Linkage
(Partners For.
Products Comm. &
Uo British Col.)
Plant Biology
Accelerated genetic improvement of Desi chickpea: An
International partnership between DAFWA,CLIMA,
ICRISAT and COGGO
Elucidation of genetic and physiological factors
controlling biosynthesis of sesquiterpenoids in
sandlewood, Santalum spp.
5 years
05/06-09/10
4 years 0609
Dr Guijun Yan
Dr Darryl Hardie
Dr Tanveer Khan
Dr Oonagh Byrne
gyan@plants.uwa.edu.au
A/Prof Tim Colmer
Dr. Rafiq Islam
Dr. Rana Munns
Dr. Ed Barrett-Lennard
tdcolmer@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Dr Lyndsey Bell
Dr Megan Ryan
megan.ryan@uwa.edu.au
Prof. Hans Lambers
Dr Patrick Finnegan
Dr Guijun Yan
Dr Susan Barker
hans.lambers@uwa.edu.au
Dr Megan Ryan
Dr Kioumars Ghamkhar
megan.ryan@uwa.edu.au
Prof William Erskine
Adj. Prof Harry Nesbitt
Prof Kadambot Siddique
william.erskine@uwa.edu.au
Prof Kadambot Siddique
Dr Janine Croser
ksiddique@fnas.uwa.edu.au
Prof Zed Rengel
Dr Hosseing Saberi
Mr Robin Wilson
Dr Tim Setter
zed.rengel@uwa.edu.au
Prof Kadambot Siddique
Dr Tanveer Khan
ksiddique@fnas.uwa.edu.au
A/Prof Julie Plummer
Dr Liz Barbour
jplummer@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
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