  Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are thermonuclear explosions of carbon-oxygen
white dwarfs (WDs) that accrete mass from a binary companion, which can be
either a non-degenerate star (a main-sequence star or a giant) or an other WD
in a binary merger (single- and double-degenerate scenario, respectively). In
population-synthesis studies of SNe Ia the contribution of asymptotic giant
branch (AGB) stars to either scenario is marginal. However, most of these
studies adopt simplified assumptions to compute the effects of wind mass loss
and accretion in binary systems. This work investigates the impact of wind mass
transfer on a population of binary stars and discusses the role of AGB stars as
progenitors of SNe Ia.
