Research laboratories

The joint research unit AGAP develops scientific research of excellence in plant biology and plant genetics and produces knowledge to meet the major societal challenges of agriculture in the South and North.
The unit is structured in three thematic fields
• Diversities & Genomes: structure, domestication, environments, societies
The biodiversity of cultivated plants offers varied and numerous sources of adaptive capacity.
• Development and Adaptation of Plants and Stands
The scientific issue of Thematic Field 2 is to understand the development and adaptation mechanisms governing the elaboration of phenotypes, along with their genetic components.
• Integrative approaches for varietal innovation
The progresses made in integrative biology, the increasing availability of data from high-throughput genotyping and phenotyping technologies and simulation tools (crop and genetic modelling) are opening up new prospects for variety creation programmes, in order to analyse the genetic bases of quantitative traits involved in the adaptation of plants, to define plant ideotypes, and to optimize novel material creation schemes.

Twelve research teams are working on tropical and Mediterranean crops (rice, wheat, sorghum, sugar cane, banana, coconut, oil palm, yam, coffee, rubber, cacao, cotton, apple, grapevine, olive, forest species, eucalyptus, etc.) covering a very broad range of biological characteristics and uses by farmers.