Nicolas Blanchet

The paper shows a single nucleotide polymorphism in a cell-wall invertase gene affects sunflower nectar chemistry, microbial diversity, and pollinator visits.

PolliCrop is a computer vision pipeline that detects and identifies flower-visiting insects on sunflower plants, showing accurate performance in predicting visitation frequencies across genotypes.

Heliaphen is an outdoor platform for high-throughput phenotyping that integrates genetic and crop modeling to study drought responses and ideotype adaptation.

This study compares additive and non-additive GWAS models to identify genomic regions controlling flowering time in sunflower hybrids, finding non-additive models better detect trait-associated loci.