Scientists, let's promote your work in the Indian Ocean
and collaborate here!
We interviewed Pascale Besse, professor of genetics at the University of La Réunion and researcher for UMR PVBMT at the Plant Protection Centre (3P), who recently published a book entitled Molecular Plant Taxonomy: Methods and Protocols*.
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The launch of the "Germination" regional cooperation project (Genetic Resources Management in Action Towards an Indian Ocean Network), sponsored by CIRAD, was held from 18 to 20 February 2014 at the Plant Protection Centre (3P) in Saint-Pierre, Réunion. Here we present an interview with Michel Roux-Cuvelier, the project’s scientific coordinator.
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We interview Jérémy Guinard, who is beginning the second year of his PhD * in the Center for Plant Protection (3P). He is researching the route by which bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum finds a way around the aubergine’s natural resistance.
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Toulassi Atiama-Nurbel is a PhD student currently in her 3rd year* at the Plant Protection Centre (3P- CIRAD Réunion) and in August attended the ICEC 2013 International Chemical Ecology Congress in Melbourne, which brought together for the first time the International Society of Chemical Ecology (ISCE) and the Asia Pacific Association of Chemical Ecologists (APACE).
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Like Reunion, Belgium faces a growing number of invasive species with harmful effects on the environment. Also, to help land managers and Belgian politicians in the identification of these species, an information system known as Harmonica has been devised. This decision-making tool was developed by scientists from the Belgian Forum on Invasive Species (http://ias.biodiversity.be) and managed by Sonia Vanderhoeven, researcher for the Belgian Biodiversity platform (www.biodiversity.be).
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