Institut Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales (AGAP Institute)
To meet 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 adapted to a variety of agrosystems.
Faced with the major global environmental and societal challenges facing 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 :
- genome organization and diversity ;
- managing and enhancing agro-biodiversity ;
- the genetic and functional bases of development, adaptation to the environment and product quality;
- data integration and modeling (of plants in stands) to help define varietal ideotypes;
- the latest phenotyping and genotyping methodologies;
- the integration of knowledge into varietal innovation and innovative breeding methods.
Serving a wide range of Mediterranean and tropical industries.
Some twenty Mediterranean and tropical species are included. They are divided into three main groups: self-pollinating annual species (rice, wheat, sorghum, cotton, groundnut), constrained reproduction species (citrus, roots and tubers, banana, sugarcane), and perennial species (eucalyptus, oil palm, apple, grapevine, olive, rubber, cocoa). Most of these species are the subject of varietal creation.
To meet the major challenges facing agriculture :
- food safety, quality of products consumed and the expectations of consumers and the industry;
- sustainability of agro-systems and reduction of their vulnerability, particularly in the context of climate change;
- ecological transition of agriculture to reduce its environmental impact.
Label: Unité Mixte de Research (UMR)
Main supervisors: CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro
Secondary supervisors: UM
Research cluster: Agriculture, Environment, Biodiversity - AEB
Doctoral school: Information, Structures, Systems; Biodiversity, Agriculture, Food, Environment, Land, Water
