For a student in Master 1 in agriculture interested by laboratory activity 

3 months: between March and August 2017

Based in: FRANCE (South East) in Portes-lès-Valence

The fourth largest seed company in the world, LIMAGRAIN is an international cooperative group created and directed by French farmers. As a creator and producer of plant varieties, Limagrain markets field seeds, vegetable seeds and cereal products.
HM-CLAUSE, Business Unit of Group LIMAGRAIN, is an innovative global leader in the development, production, and commercialization of vegetable seeds. HM.CLAUSE belongs to the top 5 vegetable seed entities in the world. With over 2,000 varieties in more than 20 vegetable crops, HM.CLAUSE provides innovative solutions to growers worldwide.

Integrated in the Seed Technology Research team, you will participate to a project which target is to find and optimize of priming process on vegetable species. 

In that frame, your main missions will be to:

• Do a bibliographic synthesis
• Participate to the first steps of process optimization
  • First screening of process parameters
  • Repetability trial,…
• Analyse your results (with statistics in particular)

Profile :

• Observation capacities
• Work autonomy
• If possible, with a first experience in the seed sector or in a laboratory  
• English speaking and reading

Please send your references (CV, motivation letter) by mail to:

Benoit Mériaux
benoit.meriaux@hmclause.com
SeedTechnology Research Project leader 
HM-CLAUSE
ZI LA Motte
Rue Louis Saillant
BP83
26802 PORTES LES VALENCE
FRANCE