Institute for Genetic Improvement and Adaptation of Mediterranean and Tropical Plants (AGAP Institute)
To address the major challenges facing Mediterranean and tropical agriculture, the Agap unit aims to bring together a wide range of skills, approaches, and resources to develop crops that are better suited to diverse agrosystems.
Faced with the major global environmental and societal challenges of Mediterranean and tropical agriculture (food security, sustainability of agro-systems, climate change, energy and ecological transition), Agap Institut mobilizes and integrates resources and knowledge on:
- the organization and diversity of genomes;
- management and enhancement of agro-biodiversity;
- the genetic and functional bases of development and adaptation to the environment, as well as product quality;
- data integration and modeling (of plants in stands) to assist in defining varietal ideotypes;
- the latest phenotyping and genotyping methodologies;
- the integration of knowledge into varietal innovation and innovative selection methods.
Serving a variety of Mediterranean and tropical crops.
Around twenty Mediterranean and tropical species are included. They are divided into three main groups: annual self-pollinating species (rice, wheat, sorghum, cotton, peanuts), species with restricted reproduction (citrus fruits, roots and tubers, bananas, sugar cane), and perennial species (eucalyptus, oil palm, apple, grapevine, olive, rubber tree, cocoa). Most of these species are subject to varietal creation activities.
To address the major challenges facing agriculture:
- food safety, quality of products consumed, and expectations of consumers and industry;
- sustainability of agricultural systems and reduction of their vulnerability, particularly in the context of climate change;
- ecological transition of agriculture to reduce its environmental impact.
Label:Joint Research Unit Research UMR)
Main supervisory bodies: CIRAD, INRAE, InstitutAgro
Secondary supervisory body:UM
Research cluster:Agriculture, Environment, Biodiversity –AEB
Doctoral school: Information, Structures, Systems; Biodiversity, Agriculture, Food, Environment, Earth,Water
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