EPITRANS PLATEFORM: the haute-couture workshop for the genetic improvement of crops in the service of tomorrow's varietal models.
This month, the Life Sciences Department of Paris-Saclay University highlights the Epigenetic and Translational Research Platform of the Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2) in a FOCUS PLATFORM article published via the media Scoop-It and the department's news. In this news flash, the platform's activities are illustrated by the "success story" of the identification of key genes for sexual determinism in Cucurbitaceae, which is now the subject of a maturation project led by SATT Paris-Saclay. This example perfectly demonstrates the strategic positioning of the platform between fundamental and applied research.