Valéry Malecot, Institut Agro, France

Valéry Malécot is associate professor in botany at L'Institut Agro, and carries out its research activites within IRHS (Research Institute of Horticulture and Seeds).
His research interests are focussed on
- cultivated and wild plant taxonomy, particularly Rosa and woody plants
- use of taxonomic and evolutionary information for prebreeding
- phylogeny reconstruction and classificaton in evolutionary complex groups
- breeding history and evolutionnary history of ornamentals
- cultivated and wild plant nomenclature