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FR: INRA - GALF
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Full name: INRA Research Unit in Genetics and Breeding of Fruit and Vegetables
Location: Avignon, France
About Us
INRA is a French Public Institute for Research in Agriculture. In Avignon, the research focus on horticultural crops in a group of laboratories grouped within the Pole for Integrated Horticulture. The research carried out by the GAFL group involved in EUSOL is part of a multi-disciplinary programme that aims at understanding the genetic, biological, physiological and ecophysiological mechanisms behind the formation, composition (level of molecules such as sugar and acid that the fruit contains) and maturation of fruit. In this context, the group characterises the genes and QTL (Quantitative Trait Locus – that is areas of DNA, perhaps containing many genes, that affect a certain trait) having a determinant role in some components of quality. Put another way we try find out which genes or QTLs are linked with a trait such as flavour and how they affect it. We mainly focus on sensory traits related to flavour and texture.
INRA and Eu-Sol
The INRA Avignon’s work in EUSOL is mostly involved in Module 1, in the analysis of the genetic basis of quality traits (which genes, and how, affect these traits). We focus on how consumers perceive the genetic diversity available among cultivars (WP1.1), i.e. what tomato texture/taste do they prefer, and dissect the genetic control of quality traits related to fruit size/sugar content (WP1.2) and texture traits (WP1.4) using molecular markers and proteomic (analysis of proteins) and metabolomic (analysis of a number of metabolites) approaches. We are also interested in the analysis of the diversity of genes involved in quality traits (WP4.2) - discovery of new alleles of important genes could lead to the breeding of superior fruit varieties - and in bioinformatics, particularly in webservices for proteomic data integration (WP6.2), which allow us to connect analysis of protein levels with other data.
Staff (working on EU-SOL)
- Mathilde Causse
- Mireille Faurobert
- Stephane Munos
- Patrick Rousselle
- Cécile Garchery
- Sophie Roland
- Jean Paul Bouchet
