GIS Plant Biotechnologies: an open and structured

public-private partnership

2011-2018

MiSSiOnS, Overview and OutlOOk

OutlookMobilising genetic leverage for multiperformance agriculture

In 2016 and 2017, GIS BV conducted a future-oriented reflection for a collaborative research programme on plant production. It consulted its members, both public and private, as well as other stakeholders in the field. This reflection resulted in the identification of 4 structural challenges and 3 key scientific themes to address them.

The members of GIS BV agree that the solutions that will enable us to overcome these challenges will emerge through a coordinated mobilisation of plant production components. In 2018, with this in mind, GIS BV joined forces with the biocontrol consortium and the GIS Grande Culture à Hautes Performances Economique et Environnementale (GC HP2E) to organise joint scientific events.

Scientific themes

1 Biodiversity and pre-breeding - Conserving, characterising and optimising genetic diversity: an essential tool for genetic progress

2 Mastering recombination - Modulation of a fundamental biological mechanism for more flexible and rapid varietal innovation

3 Genome editing - A technological breakthrough for varietal innovation

structural challenges

1 To drastically reduce the use of pesticides

2 To develop plant resources that are resilient to climate change and ecosystem services

3 To ensure that production meets the needs of the bioeconomy

4 To strengthen the nutritional quality of food

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Future Investment Projects (2)• AMAIZING• BREEDWHEAT

ANR Projects (15)• EFFECTOORES• EvoMetoNicks• REGLISSE• AdapTom• AfriCrop• ChloroRNP• EXTRACHROM• Fe-S Traffic

• INASEED• Bugspit• InteGrape• SYBIOPOP• BugsInACell• INCITE• PRAISE

Future Investment Projects (7)• AKER• Biomass For The Future (BFF)• GENIUS• PeaMUST• PHENOME• RAPSODYN• SUNRISE

KBBE Projects (3)• COBRA• GeWiDis• NESTOR

ANR Projects (8)• AdaptInWild• AutoAdapt• Cytopheno• Gandalf• Shape• NoStressWall

Scientific workshops• "Future investments and green biotechnologies” day • Thematic day “Phenotyping”• AllEnvi – GIS BV meeting

november 2012 – Position paper “Plant roots: major scientific challenges – key areas of research of relevance to the French public-private research community”

February 2013 – Position paper “Improving crop pho-tosynthesis for yield: assets of the French public and private research community and new research opportunities”

april 2013 • Position paper “Cereals benefiting from nitrogen fixation:

strategies for the French public-private research community”• Communiqué “How to boost the production and use

of French vegetable proteins from protein crops and soybeans?”

September 2013 – Dossier “Rice research: more than 10 years of collaborative research in France”

Scientific workshops• Thematic day “Roots”• Communication day “How to boost the production

and use of vegetable proteins from protein crops and soybeans?”

• Thematic day “Optimisation of photosynthesis”

2012 Plant Genomics Symposium

Thematic event committees • Biotic Interactions • Abiotic Interactions • Plant Improvement Methods • Biocomputing and Data Management • Product Quality and New Uses

Scientific workshops• “Nitrogen fixation, application to cereals”• “Genetic and other strategies for insect pest control in

Brassica crops”

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2011 2012 2013Chronology of GiS Bv activities

Stimulating the public-private partnershipBy involving both public and private partners in its scientific activities, GIS BV maintains a partnership culture within its community. It encourages future-oriented reflections in its field, and it shares these reflections with its two types of members and decision-making research bodies at the national and European level and at the level of its community and beyond.

It contributed to the Agriculture-Innovation 2025 report, commissioned by the Ministries of Agriculture and Research, to propose a shared long-term vision of tomorrow’s agriculture.

It conducted a future-oriented reflection integrating public and private visions and made proposals for a collaborative research programme on plant production.

It is a national technology platform alongside the European Technology Platform (ETP) Plants for the Future.

It participates in European discussions led by the Research & Innovation Group of the ESA (European Seed Association).

In 2018, it met with representatives of the GFPi (Gemeinschaft zur Förderung von Pflanzeninnovation) [German Federation for Plant Innovation] in order to discuss good partnership practices.

Scientific events GIS BV has many tools at its disposal to engage its scientific community: i) scientific workshops on current research issues that are at the forefront of science, ii) Thematic Event Committee (TEC) meetings composed of GIS BV member representatives and collaborative project leaders and iii) major biannual seminars to present the results obtained.GIS BV particularly relies on a portfolio of projects approved by its Strategic Committee. These projects aim to create technologies and skill sets and produce the knowledge necessary for innovative varietal development. They fall under one or more of the following 5 themes, which constitute the TECs:

• Biotic Interactions• Abiotic Interactions• Plant Improvement Methods• Biocomputing and Data Management• Product Quality and New Uses

Since its creation, GiS Bv has certified 107 projects: 9 from the Programme Investissements d’Avenir (PIA) [Investing in the Future] for a total budget of 229.4 million euros and 98 from national and European calls for projects (Plant-KBBE, ANR BioAdapt, Générique, etc.), representing a total research effort of 139.3 million euros.

ANR Projects (18)• AeschyNod• BRAVO• CEMMU• CHLOROPATHS• CoSAC• CROC• CROpTAL• DYNAMIC• IMANA

• INVADER• NGSex• NOOT• PIXIES• RIPOSTE• SERRATIONS• SLOSAM• StructuraLEP• VIRAPHIPLANT

ANR Projects (11)• CommonPlant• FRIMOUSS• ImmuneReceptor• STAYPINK• NODCCAAT• EPISYM

• AOI• Stressnet• REGULEG• CASSIS• PRIM

ANR Projects (10)• DeCoD• GrowthDynamics• PotyMove• GRaSP• SymEffectors

• MIRGA• PlastRNP• DynAlgue• ISISTOR• WXheatSym

May 2014 – Special dossier “Biocomputing”

august 2014 – Position paper “New Breeding Techniques: Necessary tools to address forthcoming challenges in plant breeding”

december 2015 – Dossier “1999 - 2015: a public-private partnership for wheat research dating back over 15 years

June 2016 – Communiqué “Genome editing: breakthrough technologies for competitive and sustainable French agriculture”

October 2016 – GIS BV Brochure: 5 years of activity “An exemplary public-private partnership for the plants of tomorrow”

Thematic event committees • Abiotic Interactions “Integration of knowledge and use in

the selection programme: genetic and plant mapping”• Plant Improvement Methods “New Population Types for

Genetic Studies”• Biocomputing and Data Management “Crop Ontology

and Phenotyping Data Interoperability”• Product Quality and New Uses “Genetics and Biomass

Valuation”

Scientific workshops • “New Breeding Techniques, Breakthrough Tools?” • “Plant genetic resources”

2014 Inter-PIA Symposium

Thematic event committees • Abiotic Interactions and Plant Improvement Methods

“Selection methods for adapting to abiotic stresses”• Biotic Interactions “Evolution et adaptation of related

plants and micro-organisms”

Scientific workshops • “Controlling recombination and reproduction”• “Consideration of epigenetic processes in varietal

improvement”

Thematic event committees • Abiotic Interactions and Biotic Interactions “Examples of

multi-stress approaches to study plant resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses”

Future-oriented thematic days • “Gene editing”• “Meiotic recombination and its applications to plant

breeding”

2016 Inter-PIA Symposium General Meeting of GIS BV members

2014 2016

Through its website, its newsletter and social media, GIS BV communicates its activities and, more generally, knowledge about plant biotechnologies. It relays information primarily to its members and, more broadly, to the public and private scientific community at the national and international levels.

Since 2011, GIS BV has published 26 newsletters in both French and English.

It distributes its communications to 2,200 contacts, including 700 international contacts, and has 400 subscribers to its Twitter account.

It has published 4 scientific dossiers on the history of public-private partnership since the start of the Génoplante programme.

Since 2014, its team has met 22 GiS members

The www.gisbiotechnologiesvertes.com website was redesigned in 2016

Communications

ANR Projects (20)• CAPPTure• EPISEX• EPITREE• EVENTS• EVOLSYM• G4PLAST• GlutN• HIPATHS• MOBIFER• NewRoot

• NiCe• RootAdapt• SEEDS• SexAphid• SPREE• StoreSoilC• TaPStar• TomaTE• Ubiflor• WALLMINE

ANR Projects (13)• ReinitiaTOR• ChromaLight• ADMIRE• MAPKSEED• MagMax• MetaboLIGHT• NEPHRON

• NUTRIR• P-Aphid• PeriSeed• PhotoRegul• REWIRE• ArchiV

January 2017 – Position paper “Mastering meiotic recombination”

February 2017 – Position paper “Epigenetics in plant breeding”

February 2018 – Future-oriented synthesis and GIS Plant Biotechnologies’ proposals "GIS BV for a collaborative research programme on crop production”

February 2018 – Dossier “15 years of public-private partnership for rapeseed research”

december 2018 – GIS BV Brochure: An open and structured partnership “Missions, assessments and outlook”

under development – Dossier: Study of plant responses to water and nitrogen availability: 1999 - 2019 Partnership Report

under development – Position paper “Optimising the plant microbiome to increase plant growth and health”

Thematic events• Abiotic Interactions “Plant nutrition and adaptation

to abiotic constraints: research challenges for agricultural applications

Future-oriented thematic days • “Genetic diversity and pre-breeding”• “Data Sharing”• “Secondary metabolites”• “Genetic control of pathogens and parasites”• “Photosynthesis, plant architecture, roots and 4 per 1000”

Thematic events • Biotic Interactions “Symbiosis and beneficial plant-

microorganism interactions; their uses in cropping systems”

Scientific workshop • “Metagenomics for the management of agricultural

ecosystems and plant improvement”

“Genome Editing” Forum General Meeting of GIS BV members

2019 Inter-PIA SymposiumThematic events (tentative) • Biocomputing and Data Management

Scientific workshops (tentative) • “Agro-genetic levers in diversification scenarios

for the stability of production and low-input production (co-organised with the GIS GC HP2E)

• The contribution of varietal improvement to nutritional quality

• Biocontrol and seed protection (co-organised with the Biocontrôle consortium)

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Inter-PIA SymposiumParis, September 2016

Inter-PIA SymposiumParis, September 2014

Inter-PIA SymposiumParis, September

2016

Visit to the CEA,Grenoble, March 2017

Cirad Visit,Montpellier, June 2018

Meeting with the GFPi,Paris, March 2018

Events CommitteeThematic, Paris, May 2016