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Control of meiotic recombination: from Arabidopsis to crops (COMREC)
Date du début: 1 nov. 2013, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2017,
"Global population stands at 7 billion and is predicted to reach 9 billion by 2050. It is anticipated that food production will need to increase by at least 50% to meet the demand arising from this increase in population. This will require a sustained improvement in crop yield. The nature of this challenge is exacerbated by the likely impact of climate change. These factors combine to make Food Se ...
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The Role of ASY1 in Promoting Meiotic Stability in Polyploid Arabidopsis (POLYMEIO)
Date du début: 1 mai 2014, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2017,
"Reliable chromosome segregation during cell division is absolutely critical for the survival, health and fertility of eukaryotes. In polyploids, the presence of an additional set of identical (or closely related) chromosomes makes correct segregation particularly difficult and as a result most newly formed polyploids form multivalents at metaphase I and have low fertility. By contrast, natural po ...
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MEIOtic inSIGHT: Deciphering the engine of heredity (MEIOSIGHT)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2012, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2016,
Meiosis is an essential stage in the life cycle of sexually-reproducing organisms. Indeed, meiosis is the specialized cell division that reduces the number of chromosomes from two sets in the parent to one set in gametes, while fertilization restores the original chromosome number. Meiosis is also the stage of development when genetic recombination occurs, thus being the heart of Mendelian heredit ...
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Impacts of Environmental Conditions on Seed Quality (EcoSeed)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2013, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2016,
"Seed quality is of paramount importance to agriculture, food security and the conservation of wild species. Considerable economic losses result from sub-optimal seed performance, undermining food security and livelihoods. Seed quality is strongly influenced by the environmental stresses experienced by the mother plant. Climate change will further exacerbate economic losses and decrease the predic ...
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REGULATORY GENE NETWORKS IN SEED COAT DEVELOPMENT (SEEDNET)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2013, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2016,
"Plant seeds are responsible for most of the world’s food supply and are important for the production of biofuels, fibers, and value-added chemicals. Seeds are also complex biological structures made of three genetically different tissues: the embryo, the endosperm that has nourishing functions and the seed coat that interfaces with the environment. The seed coat of the model plant Arabidopsis tha ...
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Epigenetic regulation of economically important plant traits (EPITRAITS)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2012, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2016,
The mission of EpiTRAITS is to train young researchers in epigenetic gene regulation and flowering in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and the crop plants maize (Zea mays) and barley (Hordeum vulgare). Epigenetic gene regulation confers stability of gene expression patterns through cell divisions while allowing changes in expression in response to environmental or developmental cues. Although ...
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Transcriptional regulation of oil accumulation in the endosperm of oilseeds (TRIANON)
Date du début: 1 sept. 2014, Date de fin: 31 août 2016,
"Consumption of oil derived from seeds is steeply increasing worldwide. First, oilseeds represent a key component of human and livestock diets. Then, fatty acids found in storage lipids accumulated in oilseeds are structurally similar to long chain hydrocarbons, so that plant oils are now widely used as competitive and sustainable alternatives to hydrocarbon-based products for energy and green che ...
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Decoding the complexity of quantitative natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana (DECODE)
Date du début: 1 févr. 2010, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2016,
Following a long history of quantitative genetics in crop plants, it now becomes feasible to use naturally-occuring variation contained in Arabidopsis thaliana accessions (lines isolated from natural populations) as the source of quantitative genomics approaches, designed to map QTLs and resolve them at the gene level. Apart from being able to exploit in multiple genetic backgrounds allelic variat ...
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Functional characterization of Shoot Growth 1, a novel QTL-based epiallele (SG1_epi_Var)
Date du début: 1 mars 2011, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2013,
Natural variation is widely used as a source of biodiversity to identify alleles controlling various traits. In the Institut Jean Pierre Bourgin (IJPB, INRA, Versailles) several groups are interested in the analysis of Arabidopsis natural variation. Classical approaches involving sets of Recombinant Inbred Lines (RIL) were developed and the genes explaining the QTLs were identified by map-based cl ...
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Engine LUBrication SYStem technologies (ELUBSYS)
Date du début: 1 juin 2009, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2012,
"In aeronautics, gas turbine engines are equipped with lubrication systems whose function is to cool and lubricate the highly loaded rolling bearings and gearboxes. Current lubrication systems are based on architectures and technologies that have not much evolved for the last 30 years and that, despite advances made on components, have reached their technological limit. Future aero-engine requirem ...
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