Botanical and genetic resources

• Conservation of collections: specific and generic (priority plants for the ppam sectors, national collections).

• Acquisition of plant material, genetic variability by prospecting, monitoring of regulatory changes concerning access to plant genetic resources.

  Pre-selection of productive populations or individuals according to criteria defined by the interprofessional committees and scientific councils of the ppam sectors.

• Assistance to companies in botany and ethnobotany.

Agronomy / production

• Production of seeds and seedlings used in the ppam (AB) sectors.
• Experiments to develop the cultivation of plants that are still not widely cultivated.
• Seed carriers, on demand for certain species of PPAM

Protecting biodiversity

• Accompaniment of the wild plant collection sector in its structuring, sensitization, monitoring of national regulations.
• Study of the possibilities of cultivation.
• Supply of plant material and technical information to professionals in the ppam sector.
• Participation in the development of a "local vegetal" sector in Ile-de-France.

Tourism / education

• Reception of visitors all year round (visit of the gardens and the museographic space dedicated to the ppam sectors).
• Reception of groups (schools and others) with specific ppam animations.