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Control of meiotic recombination: from Arabidopsis to crops (COMREC)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 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)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 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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Impacts of Environmental Conditions on Seed Quality (EcoSeed)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 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)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 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)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 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)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 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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Functional characterization of Shoot Growth 1, a novel QTL-based epiallele (SG1_epi_Var)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 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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