Title of the report:  Analysis of the molecular mechanism of rose domestication and its main floral traits

Speaker:  Prof. BENDAHMANE Mohammed, Principal Researcher, Laboratory of Plant Reproduction and Development, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France.

Time:  July 3, 2023, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Location:  Comprehensive Building 111

Prof. BENDAHMANE Mohammed, Principal Researcher, Laboratory of Plant Reproduction and Development, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France. He focuses on the genetic, molecular and genomic mechanisms controlling flower initiation, development and function in Arabidopsis thaliana and Rose. He has published more than 30 papers in Science, Nature Genetics, PNAS, Plant cell, FEBS Letters, EMBO J, Plant J. and other high level scientific journals. He is a member of the scientific committees of the French Association for Plant Biotechnology, the Scientific Evaluation and Recruitment Committee of the French Research Institute for Development (IRD) and the French National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRAE), etc. He was awarded the highest honor of the French Academy of Sciences in 2019.    （Flower seedling subject group）