INRA – Biotechnology/Breeding of plants

XYLOMIC is a platform combining genotyping and phenotyping facilities and equipments for analysing forest tree genomes and characterising phenotypes and wood properties in relation with breeding programmes (http://www.xyloforest.org/xyloforest_eng/Technical-platforms/Xylomic).

Those facilities are connected to Tree4Future European infrastructure and are located in INRA centres of Bordeaux and Orléans.

INRA is also involved in XYLOBIOTECH platform on forest biotechnologies (see FCBA).

The “Plantacomp” network gathers around 1000 genetic field trials to compare different provenances, progenies and clones for main forest tree species in France (introduced or indigeneous species).

The INRA Platform for phenotyping tree water relations comprises basic equipment for testing the responses of potted trees to different micro-environments including three high performance climate chambers (temperature, light, and atmospheric humidity are regulated), a temperature controlled greenhouse containing an innovative robot for automated control of irrigation and for imposing controlled levels of drought stress and weighing for transpiration monitoring.

The facility enables precise control of climatic growth conditions of tree seedlings and precise control of soil water status for drought experiments on medium numbers of tree seedlings.