MISTIC designs new multi-omic data analysis tools and develops multi-scale spatio-temporal models of microbial communities in agroecological cropping systems, deciphering the links between genetic diversity, community structure, and biological functions in order to understand, maintain, diagnose, and exploit for biocontrol the community dynamics underlying the health or illness of a crop and its adaptation to environmental stresses.

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MISTIC is a flagship project of the Programmes et équipements prioritaires de recherche (PEPR) Agroecologie and ICT. It receives funding from the French State through the France 2030 program, managed by the Agence National de la recherche under the reference ANR-22-PEAE-0011.