Agro-diversity and crop evolutionary dynamics
Aims
Last update: 14 April 2021
- Enhance our ability to characterize diversity by considering the plurality of human and ecological contexts and integrate the knowledge acquired on the different dimensions studied (genotype, phenotype, environment, social and cultural).
- Understand the relationship between the different scales of analysis from genes to populations/communities and the different geographical scales (plot, village, region, natural range of the studied species) (link with cluster 3).
- Understand the role of evolutionary factors in plant adaptations to environmental changes (links with cluster 2, cluster 3 and cluster 4).
- Understand the dynamics of diversity under different environmental constraints, and in relation to management practices on farms and in Biological Resource Centres (BRC) .
- Pinpoint the role of sociological and political factors in the evolution and structuring of diversity (link with cluster 4).
- Explore biotic interactions (plants x plants and plants x microbiomes) and abiotic interactions (plants x environment), and the introduction of plant diversity in agrosystems (intra and inter-specific) (links with cluster 3 and cluster 4).
- Model population dynamics in different contexts and predict the impact of global changes on the diversity of cultivated plants and their wild relatives.
Last update: 14 April 2021