Maud Tenaillon, CNRS research director, leads a team whose work focuses on the evolution and adaptation of domesticated plants. Her main study models are maize and its wild relatives, with questions on the evolution of genome sizes, demographic histories and geographic expansion routes, the genetic determinants of climatic adaptations, and the dialogue between wild and domesticated forms. With the agro-ecological transition, his current work extends to traditional associated cropping systems (maize-bean), in search of the determinants of interactions between species and their recent evolution.
