Research laboratories

The projects, developed within 7 research teams with interconnected themes, focus on common wheat, a model species of agronomic importance (2^nd cereal worldwide).
At the interface between basic and targeted research, their common objective is to improve the quality and yield of wheat in a context of sustainable agriculture and climate change, with the main objectives being:

1. To advance knowledge of the structure, organisation, functioning and evolution of the common wheat genome, to understand the genesis of new functions and/or the evolution of specific retained functions during the evolutionary history of wheat and cereals more broadly.
2. Decipher and model the molecular and physiological mechanisms involved in the control of important agronomic traits such as yield, grain quality and resistance/tolerance to biotic (diseases) or abiotic (deficiencies in nitrogen, sulphur, climate change, etc.) stresses.
3. Analyse and value genetic resources,
4. Contribute to the development of new selection tools and methods (Genomic Selection), and integrate the knowledge generated into models to improve the efficiency of varietal selection.