DiaScope

DiAScope offers 75 ha of fields and 2,500 m2 of greenhouses for experimentation on field crops and arboriculture, focusing on

• plant diversity,
• the domestication of varieties,
• adaptation to hydric and nutritional stress,
• varietal innovation,
• genotypes and environments interactions,
• plant and microbial communities, soil quality indicators, soil fauna and carbon sequestration.

It offers a range of cropping systems from conventional to organic farming, a platform and high-throughput phenotyping tools, and is developing expertise in the creation, management and description of cultivated plant diversity. It is involved in :

• Dynamic management of genetic resources (sunflower, durum wheat, maize).
• Varietal innovation and creation for organic farming (durum wheat, maize, sunflower).
• Architecture and growth modelling of fruit species (apple, apricot, olive).
• Study of growth under conditions of environmental stress.
• Genetic determinants of quality criteria and Nitrogen and Phosphorus use efficiency (durum wheat, Perfume, aromatic, medicinal plants).