...undergone intense selective pressures during their evolutionary history, cultivated species offer compelling models for addressing this
question. In this context, focusing on durum wheat as a model species, the thesis has three main objectives: (i) to decipher the role of
phenotypic plasticity in competitive or cooperative interactions between genotypes and its impact on mixture production, (ii) to identify
the genetic basis of trait plasticity involved in interactions, and (iii) to test to what extent domestication and plant breeding have affected
phenotypic plasticity during the evolutionary history of cultivated plants. From an applied point of view, this work will help to promote
beneficial interactions in intraspecific mixtures and to define breeding schemes adapted to plurigenotypic crops, in the context of the
agro-ecological transition.

Supervisors: Germain Montezeaud and Hélène Fréville

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