Tropical and Mediterranean biological resource centres

Biological resource centre and collection
Infrastructures to enrich, secure and disseminate biological resource collections and crop diversity study technology.
ÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â banana collection in Guadeloupe © ÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â
ÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â banana collection in Guadeloupe © ÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â

ÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â banana collection in Guadeloupe © ÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â

ARCAD

ARCAD is a structure to safeguard and ensure access to tropical and Mediterranean crop resources for research and training purposes.
It provides conservation and reception services and technology to characterize and analyse genetic diversity.

Biological resource centres (BRCs) in metropolitan France and the French overseas regions

ÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â's BRCs aim to enrich their collections through new accessions, to conserve them under optimum conditions, and to make them available to interested parties.

GAMéT - seeds suited to Mediterranean and tropical conditions

GAMéT is the result of the merger of ÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â's Tropical BRC and INRAE's Maize and Medicago BRCs. It is housed in the ARCAD building in Montpellier

Tropical Plants BRC

This BRC assembles ÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â and INRAE collections of crop and related species from Guadeloupe and Martinique: pineapple, banana, sugarcane, fruit trees and yam, plus an internationally recognized herbarium.

Vatel BRC

The Vatel BRC in Réunion assembles three crop collections: vanilla, tropical garlic, and little-used vegetables.

Tree Crop BRC

The Tree Crop BRC in French Guiana assembles ÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â coffee, cocoa and rubber collections.

Coffea BRC

The Coffeea BRC in Réunion assembles wild coffee varieties from Africa, Mauritius, Mayotte and Réunion held by ÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â and IRD.

Citrus BRC

The Citrus BRC, in which ÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â is a partner, is the leading European and Mediterranean collection.