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Complex cropping systems based on vegetatively propagated crops in the humid tropics – Végé-Culture
agrobiodiversity observed. Plant domestication, cultivars selection and planting materials manipulation are [...] propagated crops). The plot is not ploughed and plants are manipulated individually to compose complex [...] quantitative or qualitative terms. The secular plants of the vegeculture systems (bananas, yams, taros)
Archaeological fresh and fossil plant exudates and tars: chemistry, manufacture and uses – EXSUDARCH
Exploitation of resins and tar plants from prehistory to the Middle Ages
Understanding of the evolution of cooperation behavior of plant symbionts in the aim of the ecological intensification of agriculture – ECS
will explore cooperation in plant symbioses, specifically exploring how plant-microbe interactions shape [...] & diversity of microorganisms colonising plant-roots; Plant development behaviour, endophyte and other [...] new knowledge and perspectives on the erosion of plant diversity, and its consequences for consortiums
Plant Recognition for Smartphone Software – REVES
suggested plants, in order to let the user check the validity of the answer by looking at the real plant. The [...] forest or in a natural park takes a picture of a plant (flower or/and leaf) with her/his cell phone in [...] with the application by specifying the part of the plant, which is taken into consideration (flower or leaf)
A novel molecular tracing system for rice and citrus pathogenic Xanthomonas – XANTHracing
surveillance of plant pathogens is essential for disease control and the protection of the plants The increasing [...] gram-negative bacteria associated with various plants and having a high degree of host specificity. [...] cause diseases in more than 400 different host plants belonging to both monocots and dicots. The genus
Novel genetic approaches to dissect host range control in the rhizobium-legume symbiosis – NODON -NODOFF
legume plants, inside which they fix atmospheric nitrogen. This symbiosis enables legume plant growth [...] which play a key role in the process whereby host plants recognise their specific symbionts for nodule formation [...] ability of a rhizobium to be recognised by its host plant. NFs produced by Sinorhizobium meliloti, the symbiont
The multiplicity of cellular infection in plant viruses: characterization and mechanisms of regulation – MOI
team has monitored for the first time the MOI in a plant-virus model, from the first signs of systemic infection [...] values close to 13 genomes per cell in Brassica rapa plants. This high MOI value seems to differ from that [...] the Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV) in the same host plant, that might constantly remain close to 1. Because
Mechanization and optimization of techniques for the production and harvest forest biomass coming from specific cultures – MECABIOFOR
The development of lignocellulosic energy crops (Short Rotation Coppice or Very Short Rotation Coppice and Semi-Dedicated plantations) is conditioned by technical innovations on plantation, weeding and harvest of these stands. To lower costs, while facilitating the work, is a real challenge.
Dissecting novel mechanically mediated growth co-ordination pathways in seeds – mécanograine
Dissecting novel mechanically mediated growth co-ordination pathways in seeds
Development and utilization of new generation phenotyping tools to analyse genetic determinants of nitrogen fertilisers use efficiency in bread wheat. – PHENOBLE
technologies to: - Characterize plant performance and the dynamics of plant structures and functions - Design [...] l traits. Recent developments concentrated on plant phenomics as an emerging field that develops and [...] Design a high throughput evaluation of plants in response to desired environmental scenarios, including