Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

There is currently a very active connection with the group of Malcolm Bennett, at the Centre for Plant Integrative Biology (CPIB) in Nottingham, UK. The CPIB invests in the development of OpenAlea at the tissue level. This collaboration is expressed recently through several publication, e.g. [22] .

An important collaboration with the Unit Hortsys of CIRAD et the Reunion island and in particular frédéric Normand has been established for a number of year. The topic of the collaboration is the study of the phenology of mango tree. Three members of the team have been visiting our collaborators during the years.