APC

The mission of APC is to set up experiments on field crops with a view to contributing to the agro-ecological transition and sustainable development on 3 technical installations :

HeliaPhen, an installation in semi-controlled conditions which enables abiotic stresses to be tested on potted plants.

AgroPhen, a field facility for fine phenotyping at low and high throughput that allows the implementation of analytical devices in microparticles for variety and practice evaluation.

"CSP" (Cropping Systems and Practices), a facility for experimentation on larger instrumented plots that allows the evaluation of successions of practices and crops, with multi-criteria (agronomic, environmental and economic) and longer-term evaluations.

The field installations are deployed on two contrasting cropping systems: a reasoned system and an Organic Agriculture system. The aim of this transition is to evaluate the new agricultural practices, in a context of organic production, in order to provide the best possible support and advice to the actors of the agricultural world in a rapidly changing sector.

APC occasionally contributes to observation networks and plays a major role in broadband phenotyping.