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RIRDC Projects and Results
Project Details
Name |
Using frontier technologies for the quality assurance of medicinal herbs |
|---|---|
Summary |
1. Refine the prototype DNA fingerprinting microarray developed for Chinese medicinal herbs, expanding its functionality to include other herbs important to the Australian herbal industry, e.g. Ayurvedic, Western and Pan-American herbs, 2. Develop a database of DNA fingerprints for economically important species and chemotypes of medicinal herbs. |
Program |
Essential Oils |
Research organisation |
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology |
Objective summary |
1. Refine the prototype DNA fingerprinting microarray developed for Chinese medicinal herbs expanding its functionality to include other herbs important to the Australian herbal industry e.g. Ayurvedic Western and Pan-American herbs 2. Develop a database of DNA fingerprints for economically important species and chemotypes of medicinal herbs. |
Corporate goal |
Adopt new technologies and systems for established industries |
National priority |
Frontier technologies for building and transforming Australian industries |
Rural priority |
Technology |
RIRDC goal |
EOI-Support new ideas for products |
Principal researcher |
Eddie Pang, phone 03 9925 7137 |
Research manager |
Alison Saunders, phone (02) 6271 4124 |
Admin contact |
Janet Gaffey |