Upper panel: colleagues from INRAE BFP enjoying a drink together Middle left: a picture of the automated phenotyping facility at Institut Agro Angers Middle right: a picture of the fields at Institut Agro Angers Bottom: Our colleague Benedicte Wenden animats a brainstorming session. She's standing in front of a white board full of post-it notes.

Members of the #FDFE 🍓 team joined the #Pradam group at Institut Agro Angers for the INRAE BAP department's Fruit Days.
The program included project presentations, a tour of the experimental facilities, and workshops on digital phenotyping, multiomics, climate change, and prebreeding.

🍒 In the #PrADAm team working on sweet cherry, new hybrids are on their way!
🤔 Right after harvesting fruits from controlled crosses, it’s time to care for the babies: we extract the pits and place the embryos in vitro culture!
🤩Who knows? One of these babies might become a future cultivar!

Our colleague Aurelie Petit is standing (and smiling) next to her poster on "Genome-Wide Association Study for fruit quality on a European-centered strawberry diversity panel" at the 12th Rosaceae Genomics Conference

Last week, members of 2 BFP teams ( #FDFE and #PrADAm ) participated in the 12th Rosaceae Genomics 🧬 Congress in Costa Brava 🇪🇸.
Talks and posters on 🍓🍒🍑
200+ researchers meeting to advance science together! 👏
#RGC12 #Genomics #Research

📣 Spring is the season of interns!
😀 We are pleased to welcome Saviour Okine, a M2 intern from Master "BOOST" in Nice for 6 months in the #PRADAM team.
🍒 Saviour will be in charge to improve phenomic prediction models of phenology using NIRS from fresh leaves vs powders.
🤓 We wish you success!

📣 Some news from the #PrADAm team (Prunus adaptation, diversity, breeding).
🪵 What a beautiful hardwood cutting trial on a genetic resources collection of 340 wild apricots!
🌡️ Wild relative species are of utmost importance for crops, and ability to be propagated is a crucial trait to investigate.