Evelyne Costes

* Senior Scientist at INRA, Genetic and Plant Breeding Departement

• UMR 1098 DAP Development and plant breeding
• Group Leader of “Architecture and Functions of Fruit Trees” team
• Address:
  • 2, Place Viala
  • 34060 Montpellier Cedex 1, France
  • Tel: 33 (0)4 99 67 27 87 Fax: 33 (0)4 99 67 26 16
  • email:costes_at_supagro.inra.fr

• Measurement and digitizing of tree architecture
• Analysis and modeling of tree and fruiting branch structures
• Comparison of cultivars to explore the within-species variability
• Molecular determinisms of tree architecture
• Ecophysiological functions in fruit trees

• Modeling growth and branching patterns in fruit trees
• Simulating apple tree development
• Genetic study of apple progenies segregating for architectural and morphological traits

• Member of the scientific board of Inra inter-departments Tree Ecophysiology Network (REA) advisory board since 2001.
• Member of the steering board at UMR BEPC from 2002 and UMR DAP from 2006
• Member of the scientific board of INRA Center in Montpellier
• Co-chairing of the “Architecture” group of Genetic and Plant Breeding Departement at INRA
• Co-organiser of training sessions (on “plant architecture measure and analysis” and on “plant responses to environmental conditions”

• Yearly one-week training session on Measure and analysis of plant architecture: 3D digitizing and introduction to the AMAPmod software in collaboration with C. Godin (CIRAD-INRIA) and H. Sinoquet H. (Inra-EA) with contributions from C. Pradal, Dones N., Adam B., Guédon Y., Boudon F., Ferraro, P. Heuret. The program of these Inra/Cirad training sessions have been replaced in 2004 by a new program: ALEA, a plateform for plant modelling. http://www.cirad.fr/presentation/programmes/amap/formation/ecol.html.
• Course on Modeling fruit tree architecture. Class for 2nd and 3yr year graduate students in Agro. M and INH in Angers