Plant breeding and biotechnology

Production of plant varieties adapted to sustainable, efficient and environmentally friendly agriculture.

Exploitation of natural genetic resources and development of new breeding tools.

The SPS network Research teams work to improve production and increase natural genetic variability. They develop tools to optimize genetic shuffling, clonal reproduction of genotypes, identification of genes of agronomic interest and targeted genome modification (endonuclease). They also contribute to the evaluation of the impact of the use of these methods on the seed chain at the technical, economic, societal and regulatory levels.

Expertise

Plant breeding

Mechanisms involved in the control of meiotic crossing-overs, apomixis.

Study of plant biodiversity

New plants for new uses (Camelina and Miscanthus).

Breeding (natural or induced)

Biotechnology

Library of mutants (T-DNA, tilling)
New technologies for transgenesis (meganuclease TALENs, CRISPRs) and regeneration.

Teams related to this field of application (non-exhaustive list)

Team leader	Research Unit	Team name
Abdelhafid Bendahmane	IPS2	Flower and Carpel Development
Nicolas Bouché	IJPB	Epigenetic variation
Françoise Budar	IJPB	Organelles and reproduction
Jean Colcombet / Heribert Hirt	IPS2	Stress Signalling
Martin Crespi	IPS2	Regulatory non-coding RNAs in root plasticity
Catherine Damerval	GQE-Le Moulon	Genetics, Epigenetics and Evolution of Floral Morphogenesis
Mathilde Fagard	IJPB	Nitrogen-pathogen interactions
Matthieu Falque	GQE-Le Moulon	Mapping, Gene expression and Polymorphism
Valérie Gaudin	IJPB	Chromatin dynamics and gene regulation
Valérie Geffroy	IPS2	Genome Dynamics and Pathogen Infection
Marie-Angèle Grandbastien	IJPB	Host-Retrotransposon Interactions
Mathilde Grelon	IJPB	Mechanisms of the meiotic recombination
Philippe Guerche	IJPB	Lipid-Protein Homeostasis in Seed
Pierre Hilson	IJPB	Biology of the cell and Regeneration
Bertrand Hirel	IJPB	Management of nitrogen and crops productivity
Michael Hodges	IPS2	Regulation, Signaling and Metabolic Interactions
Herman Hofte	IJPB	Primary cell wall
Eric Jenczewski	IJPB	Meiosis recombination in polyploids
Anne Krapp	IJPB	Nitrogen Use, Transport and signaling
Patrick Laufs	IJPB	Transcription factors and architecture
Olivier Loudet	IJPB	Variation and abiotic stress tolerance
Claire Lurin	IPS2	Organellar Gene Expression
Olivier Martin	GQE-Le Moulon	Recombination of Alleles in Meiosis: Determinism, Applications, Modeling
Marie-Laure Martin-Magniette	IPS2	Genomics Networks
Raphaël Mercier	IJPB	Mechanisms of meiosis
Grégory Mouille	IJPB	Cell to Cell adhesion and Communication
Fabien Nogué	IJPB	DNA repair and genome engineering
Catherine Rameau	IJPB	Branching control in plants
Pascal Ratet	IPS2	Genetic Control of the symbiosis
Matthieu Reymond	IJPB	Biomass quality and interactions with drought
Richard Sibout	IJPB	Secondary cell wall
Hervé Vaucheret	IJPB	Epigenetics and small RNAs

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