Participation in an integrated project involving more than 60 laboratories (EU-FP6 Grain Legumes IP 2004-2008)
Collaborations with the John Innes Center (UK) on pea seed trypsin inhibitors and nodulation mutants.
LINK concerted action programme (1999-2001) on Grain Legumes in the framework of the AEP (European Grain Legume Research Association).
Participation in FP5 project on Medicago symbioses
French representative in COST action 843 on plant biotechnologies
FAO/IAEA project on somatic hybridisation Pea/Lathyrus
FAO Host lab.
Collaboration with the ECP/GR coordination of European Vicia faba genetic resources
Bilateral cooperation with the Beijing Institute of Genetic Resources on Grain legume genetic resources
Quality of Agricultural Production department of CRAG (Centre de Recherche Agronomique de Gembloux) and INRA network (Clermont-Ferrand, Montpellier, Rennes, Nantes, Dijon) for standardizing NIR spectroscopy.
Participation in Chinese-French PRA Biotechnology project BT02-01 on “The model legume Medicago truncatula and its use for legume crop genetics and breeding”.

The unit is strongly represented in the AEP (European Grain Legume Research Association) and was the local host for the joint AEP-ICLGG conference on Legume genetics and genomics in Dijon June 2004.