Created in January 2007, umr 1287 EGFV brings together multi-disciplinary skills, ranging from ecophysiology to molecular physiology, biochemistry and genetics, to study the functioning of the vine and the determinants of grape berry quality.
It brings together researchers from INRA's 'Environnement et Agronomie' (EA) and 'Département de Biologie et Amélioration des Plantes' (BAP) departments, and teacher-researchers from Bordeaux Sciences Agro (formerly ENITAB) and the University of Bordeaux, and plays an important structuring role within the Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin (ISVV).
Its objectives are to
- to identify the environmental (light, water, amendments), physiological (sugar, nitrogen, water status, hormones, stage of development) and molecular (regulatory genes) variables that control grape quality, particularly secondary metabolism;
- modelling vine and berry function, at both physiological and molecular levels;
- understanding rootstock/graft interactions in terms of nutrients, genetics and epigenetics;
- setting up cross-disciplinary tools that can be shared by the national and international community.
The research programmes are conducted along two lines, which cooperate and exchange concepts, methodological tools and skills:
- Rootstock/graft interactions (Leader: Nathalie Ollat)
- Bay environment and quality (Leader: Eric Gomès)
