Crop cultivation

Manager : Christelle ROIGT
Platform personnel : Caroline COLINET and Adrien CADOUDAL 

Missions and Activities

• Plant maintenance and production (watering, tying, bagging, etc.)
• Control and application of plant protection products
• Maintenance and inspection of technical tools
• Crosses or transformations by Agrobacterium tumefasciens
• Phenotyping (taking photos, recording parameters, etc.)
• Training for new arrivals (visits to cultivation sites and supervision)

Equipments

The platform is equipped with :

•  3 growing chambers and a plant handling room
•  5 Percival enclosures
• 1 in vitro culture room with 1 culture cabinet
• 2 Sanyo cabinets

In addition to its own equipment, the cultivation department has access to an S2 containment greenhouse within the Bio-Environment platform.