Home page U.M.R. de GENETIQUE VEGETALE du MOULON General presentation

The Station de Génétique Végétale (SGV) du Moulon includes a Research Unit and an Experimental Unit. Scientists and technicians belong to two Research Institutes (INRA and CNRS) or to two Universities (UPS and AgroParisTech), or to an INRA subsidiary (Agri Obtentions).

  

Research Unit
	Head: Dominique de Vienne, Pr. Université Paris Sud Organization chart of the Unit The main research topic of the Research Unit is the genetics of complex traits (quantitative genetics), mainly applied to maize and wheat. Four research teams work on complementary projects: Fundamental Quantitative Genetics Head: F. Hospital. Modelling quantitative variation, by integrating the genetic, molecular (including genomics), physiological (relying on metabolic control theory) and environmental levels. Molecular Quantitative Genetics and Proteomics Head: M. Zivy. Molecular and physiological characterisation of QTL involved in responses of maize to drought stress using a "candidate gene and protein" approach. In this context the systematic analysis of the maize proteome is in progress. Evolutionary genetics, adaptation and redundancy Head: C. Damerval. Genetic and molecular bases of adaptation in crops, and role of genetic redundancy in evolution Quantitative Genetics and Selection Methodology Head: A. Charcosset. Understanding the genetic bases of complex traits and the mechanisms of response to selection, from the analysis of diversity in collections and experimental populations. Optimizing genetic resources management and selection process, using those studies along with theoretical approaches. A laboratory of molecular biology and bio-informatics provides expertise and technical support to the research teams (head M. Falque) A platform of proteomics is a facility for the proteomic projets of the Unit, and is partly open to other laboratories.
Involvement in scientific networks
	- The Research Unit is involved in the program Génoplante (http://www.genoplante.org), with a leading participation in six maize projects. - M. Falque and D. Madur are responsible of the INRA network for the testing and optimizing of publicy available microsatellites of maize. - Collaborations with Promaïs, Biogemma and AGPM - Involvement in two European projects, Zeastar and Resgen - Collaboration with CIMMYT (Mexico)
Experimental Unit
	Head: Olivier Gardet The Experimental Unit has a triple function: - Supporting the experimental work for the Research Unit of the Moulon and other INRA Research Units. - Final steps of variety development (wheat, oats, proteagineous species), and variety and parental line maintenance (in particular for Agri Obtentions). - Educational experiments for the University Paris-Sud and INA PG.

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