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AGAP Institute at the 3rd Agropol'Eat festival
05/07/2024
A festive event in the Agropolis district, on the banks of the Lez river, to share, explore and enjoy together the challenges of sustainable food, the environment and the preservation of Biodiversity.
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25/06/2024
CIRAD and the Bioversity International & CIAT Alliance have joined forces to integrate banana in situ observation data management into the Musa Germplasm Information System (MGIS). Online tools (GBIF, Google) and citizen and participatory science (iNaturalist, PlantNet, Flickr) have been mobilized to gather data, and propose a pipeline for retrieving, analyzing, filtering and validating observations, involving the development of dedicated Drupal modules and the use of artificial intelligence models.
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18/06/2024
From April 11 to 16, 2024, researchers from UMR AGAP of CIRAD and INRAE, in partnership with the University of Antananarivo, Fofifa, and with the support of the Agence universitaire francophone (AUF), held a training course on functional and comparative genomics for Madagascan students, researchers and teachers.
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Job offer: Engineer in cell biology, in vitro culture and plant biotechnology
12/06/2024
AGAP Institute is a joint research unit dedicated to the genetic improvement of crop adaptation to the constraints of growing environments in a context of agro-ecological transition and climate change.
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Agap Institute at the 1st International Citrus Show
15/05/2024
The Structure évolutive des agrumes, polyploïdie et amélioration génétique (SEAPAG) team from Corsica and Montpellier helped organize the 1st Salon International de l'Agrume, in Menton on April 5 and 6, 2024.
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Job offer : ALTERNANCE- Administrative Assistant
14/05/2024
You will be based at the AGAP Institute (Plant Genetic Improvement and Adaptation) and will support the administrative assistant in charge of the Perennial Genome and Breeding Collective (GSP). You will contribute to the administrative management of personnel in terms of HR (monitoring attendance, leave, teleworking, staff updates, follow-up of management charts, reception files, etc.) and Finance (purchase orders, mission orders, expense reports, etc.).
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Job offer: Senior laboratory technician in Guadeloupe
24/04/2024
CIRAD is recruiting a senior technician specialized in molecular biology. If you are passionate about genetics and plants, join AGAP Institut (Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes).
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Séminaire sur la Sélection Phénomique
22/04/2024
Le séminaire organisé par la section “outils et méthodes en appui à la sélection variétale” de l’association des sélectionneurs français (ASF) animé par Vegenov et l’UMR AGAP Institut, s’est déroulé les 18 et 19 mars 2024 au Cirad (Montpellier, Lavalette)
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Success tastes sweet | Sugarcane's complex genetic code has been cracked
08/04/2024
The full sugarcane genome has finally been revealed. The results of work to sequence the plant, which accounts for 80% of the sugar produced worldwide, were published in Nature on 27 March. The five-year operation was the fruit of international collaboration between CIRAD (France), the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) (United States) and CSIRO and QAAFI (Australia).
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18/03/2024
A method for improving the nutritional value of the most widely grown rice varieties in Madagascar by raising the concentration of zinc (Zn) in the grains.