Main projects
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Discover some projects managed by the unit (projects ordered in descending order of end date) : they reflect the variety of the scientific targets, of the geographical areas where projects take place, and of the funding sources. Among the projects hereby described around half are supported by French public funds (ANR, foundation Agropolis), a third by European funds (H2020, regional funds) and the rest through diverse sources (French and foreign private partners, international organizations, ...)
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Institut Français du Caoutchouc – Création Variétale 4 (IFC-CV4)
Dispositif expérimental de terrain à mettre en place en Côte d'Ivoire et études pour la mise en oeuvre de la sélection génomique au sein de la population de sélection.
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LANDSREC The high-resolution landscapes in rice meiotic recombination
To better understand the epigenetic and genetic factors involved in the distribution of meiotic cross-overs in order to establish a predictive tool for their occurrence for genetic analyses and plant breeding
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Through integrated and participatory approaches, DINAAMICC aims to reduce the vulnerability of family farms in the central highlands of Madagascar to climatic and environmental changes by improving and promoting agro-ecological solutions that contribute to their resilience and sustainability within their environment.
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Diversity of varieties and farming systems as an asset of Mediterranean oleiculture in a global change setting
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The NitroSorg project aims to develop high-throughput characterization tools for the quality of sorghum grain, in particular the content and digestibility of proteins. The project will allow an assessment of the current variety supply and the development of selection tools. In addition, in vitro and in vivo digestion test for poultry feeding will improve our understanding of the mechanisms of sorghum protein digestion.
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Développer des cultures résilientes au profit des petits producteurs d’Afrique de l’Ouest - ABEE
Le projet ABEE (Renforcement des réseaux et des capacités institutionnelles en amélioration des plantes pour le développement de cultures résilientes au profit des petits producteurs d’Afrique de l’Ouest) met en œuvre une approche coordonnée en sélection variétale, en modernisant les pratiques de sélectionneurs de cinq cultures cibles (mil, sorgho, fonio, arachide et niébé), afin de mieux répondre à la demande du marché. Objectif : contribuer à la hausse de la productivité agricole et de la résilience des petits exploitants agricoles face à la croissance démographique, à la vulnérabilité économique et au changement climatique.
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We are testing the use of phenomic and genomic tools to select progenies within integration crosses, i.e. between iconic and resistant grapevine varieties. In this context, the final goal is to select individuals which display the characteristics of their iconic parental variety while being resistant to diseases.
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Environmental signals such as winter and spring temperatures that control dormancy and the growth / flowering cycles of fruit trees are altered by climate change, threatening crop production. However, our ability to produce new cultivars is limited by our lack of knowledge about the underlying mechanisms and their genetic variation in collections of diversity. The FruitFlow project brings together an international consortium of five research centers and three companies to address these questions about two important fruit species: apple and peach.
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SCOOP: Selecting for cooperative crops to develop sustainable agriculture
SCOOP will explore the phenotypic and genetic determinants of plant cooperation in order to target varieties that do not invest resources in competitive interactions at the expense of yield, in future breeding programs. The project will use an integrative approach linking evolutionary biology and functional ecology to tackle these issues both experimentally and theoretically.