IJPB
Bio-based materials – Plant cell – Oligosaccharides and polysaccharides – Phenolic biopolymers – Lipids
The Component presentation
The IJPB conducts research across three main areas: (1) Genomes, (2) Development, Signaling, and Modeling, and (3) Biomass, Environment, Adaptation, and Metabolism.
To achieve this, the IJPB brings together a unique combination of multidisciplinary resources and expertise in biology, chemistry, and mathematics – unmatched in France. Our goal is to advance multidisciplinary plant research to generate fundamental biological knowledge, foster innovation, and ddress key scientific and societal challenges.
Research areas
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Genome dynamics and engineering
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Plant development
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Plant signaling and communication
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Metabolic and cellular adaptation to environmental stresses
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Plant-derived bioproducts for a sustainable bioeconomy
Plant cultivation and phenoscope
Cultivation and production of plants and plant tissues under controlled conditions in greenhouses, growth chambers, quarantine facilities, or S3 biosafety level environments. Infection with plant pathogens. Automated phenotyping using four high-throughput phenotyping robots for Arabidopsis, enabling macroscopic imaging in visible, infrared, or multispectral modes; and an "XL" phenotyping robot designed for medium-sized or post-flowering plants, including Arabidopsis through to seed production.
Cytology/Imaging
The Cytology and Imaging Component of the IJPB Plant Observatory brings together a unique set of expertise and instruments dedicated to plant cytology. It is composed of five workshops: cytogenetics, in situ hybridization, immunocytochemistry, microscopy, and laser microdissection. The OV-CI platform is a leader in France in plant microscopy and cytology. It has been a pioneer in the development of new techniques for plant studies, particularly in the study of living cells (e.g., live meristem imaging, protein-protein interactions using fluorescence anisotropy techniques in plants).
Chemistry/Metabolism
The Chemistry-Metabolism Platform aims to provide quantification and characterization of chemical compounds from plants: plant hormones, primary or secondary metabolites, and compounds derived from biomass. The platform serves the international scientific community. A key strength of this chemistry platform is its integration into a scientific environment focused on plant physiology and functional genomics approaches. This positioning at the chemistry/biology interface is a major priority and one of the platform’s core missions, already demonstrated through its active involvement in numerous collaborative projects.
Biochemistry
The OV-Biochemistry platform provides protocols and consumables dedicated to protein biochemistry. It offers biochemical, biophysical, and structural analysis methods for proteins and their assemblies, and houses the essential equipment required for these analyses. Expertise and Methodologies: recombinant protein production for functional and structural analyses; purification; isolation and identification of functional protein complexes; interaction studies; proteomic approaches; sub-cellular fractionation; structural biology.
Success stories - VALEORIS
The VALEORIS project enabled the development of an innovative “material + energy” valorization concept for co-products from the food industry: bran and straw, combining the extraction of high-value molecules with bioenergy production.
In this project, a microwave pre-treatment was combined with a xylanolytic enzymatic cocktail, Rovabio® Advance, to optimize the extraction of ferulic acid.