PVPP team

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The plant wall is a complex and dynamic structure that varies according to the species, organ and plant tissue under consideration. The wall evolves throughout the plant's life cycle to meet its physiological needs or to cope with environmental constraints (thermal, hydric, pathogen attack, etc.).

With the aim of understanding these dynamics, we are investigating the mechanisms of biosynthesis, assembly, remodelling and degradation of parietal polymers (polysaccharides, lignins), in order to understand their properties. Our research focuses on cultivated plants such as cereals: wheat, maize, sorghum (a cereal whose cultivation in Europe is intensifying because of its resistance to global warming), fleshy fruits (apples, tomatoes) and model plants Arabidopsis thaliana and Brachypodium distachyon.

The applied prospects of this research are to optimise the quality and use of plant products, for example the texture of fruit and the biodegradation of agricultural by-products, as well as to control the impact of walls as dietary fibres in human/animal food or in the design of new materials.

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