Research teams
Nitrogen Use, Transport and Signaling
The NUTS team studies nutrient signaling in plants with a particular emphasis on nitrogen signaling, nitrate transport and whole plant nitrogen management. Our main research interest is to investigate how plants orchestrate their response to changes in availability or demand of nutrients.
Strigolactones and Allelochemicals Signaling
The SAS team is interested in specialized metabolites synthesized by plants that have a hormonal function and/or are involved in interactions between plants in the rhizosphere (allelopathy).
Homeostasis Lipid-Protein in Seed
The seeds of cultivated plants are essential for food, feed and industry. Oleoproteaginous crops such as rapeseed essentially accumulate oil and protein.
Lignocellulosic Biopolymers: from Cell Wall Assemblies to Synthons for Green Chemistry
The Apsynth team investigates the formation of lignins in plant cell-walls and their reactivity upon lignocellulosic biomass processing.
Nitrogen-Pathogen interactions
The NPI team studies plant diseases caused by necrotrophic pathogens. Our aim is to understand the mechanisms of pathogens attack plants and of plant defense. We also study the impact of plant nutrition on these mechanisms, in particular plant nitrate nutrition.
Management of Nitrogen and Crops Productivity
The team Nitrogen Management and Plant Productivity studies the physiology and molecular genetics of nitrogen nutrition in plants.
Dynamics and Structure of Lipid Bodies
Most organisms store lipids or oils in intracellular organelles called lipid droplets (LD). Located at the crossroads of the accumulation, storage and mobilization of lipids, LDs have been the subject of few studies compared to the other important factors for lipid synthesis and mobilization.
Biomass Quality and Interactions with Drought
Research activities carried out in the QUALIBIOSEC team are devoted to the identification of biochemical, histological and molecular factors involved in lignocellulosic biomass degradability in maize in the context of climate change, and in particular of water deficit.
Senescence, Autophagy, Nutrient Recycling and Nitrogen Use Efficiency
The SATURNE team brings together experts in molecular physiology who are interested in the molecular processes of nutritional recycling and the allocation of nitrogen resources in the plant organs.