Montpellier Scientific Community

Scientific platforms and facilities

The Foundation’s research units use a set of facilities providing the network with an extensive scientific capacity—from laboratory to field and to experimental pilot operations.

Phenotyping - Genotyping - Proteomics

• High throughput phenotype analysis
  
  • PHENODYN
    
  • PHENOPSIS

• Molecular Marking Laboratory (AMM) (in French)

• Genotyping platform (in French)
  

• Functional genomics (in French)
  

• REFUGE Platform (The RicE FUnctional GEnomics platform)

• Proteomics (IBISA-certified) (in French)
  

• Electron microscopy technical facility (in French)
  

• Plant cell imaging Platform (Montpellier RIO Imaging, IBISA-certified)

• MRI–PHIV (Histology and Plant Imaging)

• MRI-La Gaillarde (Plant Imaging)

Analysis of fruit and food quality

• Fruit quality analysis (in French)
  
  
• Polyphenols (IBISA-certified)
  
  
• Microbiological food safety (in French)

Agropolymer Engineering

• Particulate Engineering

• Platform for the characterization of plant lipids and hydrophobic polymers for a green and sustainable chemistry

Modeling

• Virtual plant

• OpenAlea (Software Environment for Plant Modeling)