The GENOPS team conducts research on tropical perennial plants with high agronomic value, mainly palm trees and coffee trees, as well as their wild relatives.
These species are central to issues of food and economic security, adaptation to global change, and the sustainability of agricultural systems in the Global South.
The work aims to understand genome evolution and its links to key adaptive and agronomic traits, using comparative genomics, pangenomics, transcriptomics, and epigenomics approaches.
Research focuses in particular on reproductive systems (determination of sex and sex chromosomes in palms), biosynthetic pathways of metabolites of interest (caffeine), and adaptation to environmental stresses.
