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Research
All about INRA research, publications, web sites and resources
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06/01/2012 Press release
Scientists at Rothamsted Research(1), which receives strategic funding from BBSRC(2), in collaboration with Syngenta, Imperial College London and the French National Institute for Agricultural Researc
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05/12/2011 Laboratories – research results
Forest edges are key components in rural landscapes. They participate in important ecological processes (structural biodiversity, water retention, nesting, food resources for fauna, etc.) and, as a bi
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02/12/2011 Laboratories – research results
The food we consume covers many kilometres before it arrives at our table. Driven by local initiatives, and in order to ensure "responsible" consumption, new forms of contractualisation have recently
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02/12/2011 Laboratories – research results
The use of green materials in order to reduce dependency on oil is a strategy that has been adopted by the motor industry equipment manufacturer FAURECIA for several years. In the context of the BIOMA
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24/11/2011 Press release
An arachnid genome was sequenced for the first time by an international consortium of 33 laboratories, including the University of Western Ontario (Canada), Ghent University (Belgium), the University
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17/11/2011 Press release
Scientists from the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in collaboration with teams from Genoscope (CEA) and CNRS, as part of an international consortium *, have reported the ge
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18/10/2011 Press Info item
An INRA research team in Montpellier, working in collaboration with teams from CNRS in Strasbourg and New York University, have recently achieved a major advance in our understanding of plant nutritio
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18/10/2011 Press Info item
Clarifying the interactions that exist between plant cell constituents is the first step towards understanding the intimate mechanisms that govern the functioning of plants. INRA scientists have rece
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03/08/2011 Press release
As part of a vast international study, researchers from the Institut Pasteur, the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (In
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The biorefining training course took place in the Paris region from August 29th to September 1st. By providing both information on the fundamental principles and technologies of biorefining and in-dep
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20/07/2011 Laboratories – research results
The effects of a maternal diet deficient in essential fatty acids on the brain of her infant are poorly understood. However, it is known that a lack of omega 3 fatty acids is implicated in numerous pa
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25/07/2011 Press release
Researchers funded by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the French Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) have found that ground beetles reduce the amount
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21/07/2011 Press Info item
European consumers agrees as to their preferences for tomatoes. That is the conclusion of a study carried out by researchers from three European Union countries, including a team from INRA. Far from
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21/07/2011 Press Info item
Intramammary infections, commonly referred to as mastitis, are the principal cause of economic losses in dairy production. Different pathogenic agents cause these infections, but Staphylococcus aureu
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21/06/2011 Press release
Scientists have discovered caterpillars in old herbaria, indicating that the horse-chestnut leaf miner was living on native stands of the horse-chestnut in Greece as early as 1879 and was already pres
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In the coming decade, the French Stimulus Initiative ("Investissements d'Avenir") will shape research in France. INRA will participate in this national research and innovation strategy initiative, who
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There are a multitude of controversies concerning livestock farming systems. The most common argument is that livestock production is one of the major contributors to greenhouse gas production. Is the
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05/05/2011 Press Info item
Reducing the salt content of foods is a major public health challenge. INRA researchers, working in collaboration with colleagues from AgroParisTech, have demonstrated the importance of the compositi
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This work, coordinated by two researchers in INRA's Science for Action and Sustainable Development Division, aims to present the most recent developments regarding territorial governance, placing part
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05/05/2011 Press Info item
Gene mutations that are referred to as being silent because they have no directly visible consequences, may in fact be implicated in the onset of serious diseases. This is the conclusion of a study c
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05/05/2011 Press Info item
Colonisation by Escherichia coli bacteria of specific structures in the intestinal epithelium, Peyer's patches, may be at the origin of the onset of Crohn's disease. This is the conclusion of a study
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03/05/2011 Press release
The genomes of fungi which cause wheat stem rust and poplar rust have been sequenced and analyzed by an international consortium of researchers at INRA, the CNRS, the Universités Henri Poincaré – Nanc
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For 20 years, there has been evidence of climate change from weather records. Its impact is beginning to be felt in agriculture and forestry: repeated droughts, advanced or delayed flowering and harve
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20/04/2011 Press release
Researchers in the European MetaHIT consortium coordinated by INRA and involving researchers from INRA, the CEA, CNRS, the University of Evry Val d’Essonne, Danone and the Institut Mérieux, have ident
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11/04/2011 Press release
Nitrogen is crucial for feeding the world’s steadily growing population, yet it is also a source of air, soil and water pollution. Europe’s first nitrogen assessment has been launched on 11 April 2011
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11/03/2011 Press release
Researchers at the Institut Pasteur, INRA, Inserm and the CNRS have just identified a mechanism that enables the pathogenic bacterium Listeria monocytogenes to reprogramme expression of the genes in t
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18/02/2011 Press release
A research team at INRA Versailles-Grignon, working with colleagues from the U.S. and India, has proven for the first time that a sexual plant can produce clonal seeds which are genetically identical
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15/02/2011 Press release
Led by INRA, an international consortium including researchers from INRA, CEA-Genoscope and CNRS has completed the whole genome sequencing and analysis of the fungus responsible for stem canker of oil
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07/02/2011 Press release
Springer has been publishing five scientific journals for the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) since the beginning of the year. The journals are Apidologie, Annals of Forest
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06/01/2011 Press release
Scientists from INRA, CNRS and Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse have determined the structure and biological activity of molecular signals called Myc factors. These compounds are synthesized by s
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13/12/2010 Press Info item
Lycopene is present in numerous fruits, including the tomato. It is endowed with anti-inflammatory properties. INRA researchers have recently shown that this anti-inflammatory effect is exerted on f
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05/10/2010 Press Info item
An excessively salty diet participates in the development of cardiovascular diseases. For this reason, reducing the salt content in foods has become a major challenge for the agrifood industry. But
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05/10/2010 Press Info item
A team of INRA researchers in Clermont-Ferrand and the University of Auvergne have, for the first time, demonstrated that a moderate increase in one type of fatty acid (trans fatty acids) in milk fat
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16/07/2010 Press release
Chronic excess of linoleic acid (omega 6), coupled with a deficiency in alpha-linoleic acid (omega 3), can increase obesity down the generations. This has been demonstrated for the first time by Gérar
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05/10/2010 Press Info item
A study carried out in animals by INRA researchers at the Angers-Nantes Research Centre has shown that growth defects resulting from malnutrition during intrauterine life have repercussions on the met
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In order to explore grapevine defence mechanisms against grapevine fanleaf virus (GFLV), a highly aggressive disease, INRA’s scientists wanted to carry out a field trial of genetically-modified grapev
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While in the current context INRA does not intend to make available GM plant varieties for sale in France, the Institute strives to remain a major player in the field of plant biotechnologies. Around
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Edited by Denis Loustau. The results presented in this book summarize the main findings of the CARBOFOR project, which brought together 52 scientists from 14 research units to investigate the effects
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Recent health crises have brought to light the very real threat these zoonoses pose to human health, global food safety and the economy, stressing the need for revitalising research in this area. Infe
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"Genomics appeared in the 1990s, born from the evolution of Molecular Genetics, which originally was concerned with the study of a gene or a small fraction of the genome and later evolved towards the
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From food production to raw materials for construction and industry, from regulating the water cycle and water quality to improving our landscapes, from carbon storage aimed at limiting the greenhouse
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On the occasion of the International Food Show, the latest Press Info items illustrate the diversity of the research conducted at INRA in the field of food and nutrition, taste, health and food safety
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Comprehending the relationship between agriculture and biodiversity plays a key role in understanding and managing biodiversity. To respond to this challenge, the synergies between agronomy, ecology a
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