January 2022 : Congratulations to Michel for his nice paper on the genetics of shade-avoidance in wheat published in Evolutionary Applications!
January 2022 : New paper on allelic diversity effects in mixture is out in New Phytologist. Congrats Germain!
November 2020 : Welcome to our newly recruited PhD students Michel Colombo and Taïna Lemoine! All the best in the SCOOP adventure!
August 2020 : Congratulations to Germain for his paper assessing the effect of functional diversity on crop yield in durum wheat varietal mixtures! More soon in Journal of Applied Ecology (https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13735).
January 2020 : INRAE is paying attention to our work (see the press release in french here). Well done Germain!
January 2020 : New paper on plant cooperation in crops is out in the Proceedings of the Royal Society (here). Congrats Germain!
12 December 2019 : Well done Germain for your brilliant PhD defense!
12 July 2019 : I am overexcited to hear that our proposal SCOOP 'Selecting for cooperative crops to develop sustainable agriculture' will be funded by the ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche). Learn more about cooperative crops here.
11 July 2019 : Very happy to have our first paper on kin selection in crops published in Evolutionary Applications! Check it out here.
04-07 June 2019 : Third Jack Harlan International Symposium in Montpellier: we will present our work on kin selection in crops. Check out our poster on kin discrimination in durum wheat where we experimentally tested whether kin discrimination can explain lower yield of variety mixture, and do not miss Germain's talk on Wednesday, June 5th at 11:45 on 'Farming plant cooperation in crops'. You will get a good taste of what we have been up to!
19-22 August 2018 : Joint congress on Evolutionary Biology in Montpellier: we will present our work on kin selection in crops in the symposium 'Social evolution and kin selection: confronting nature with theory'. Check out our poster on kin discrimination in durum wheat, and Germain's poster for a theoretical study investigating how farming practices can promote cooperation in crops.
April 2018 : new paper on the effect of climate change on the viability of the endemic plant Centaurea corymbosa is out in Biological Conservation (here). Congrats to Asma!
November 2017 : Congratulations to Germain for his paper testing niche complementarity in rice mixtures! Check it out here.
August 2017 : New paper on the effect of forest closure on the population dynamics of Paeonia officinalis is published in Biological Conservation (here).
June 2017 : Research paper on the role of seed bank and dispersal on plant metapopulation dynamics is out in Ecology. Check it out here.
November 2016 : Germain Montazeaud starts his PhD work on the effects of kin selection and niche complementarity on mixture performance. Welcome Germain!