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09/09/2011 Press release
In recent years, it has become clear that food poisoning due to Salmonella typhimurium can be contracted not only by uncooked eggs and meat but also through eating contaminated raw vegetables and frui
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21/07/2011 Press Info item
The importance of urban agriculture to city development projects is strongly dependent on its sustainability. INRA and CIRAD scientists, and their Madagascan colleagues, have recently demonstrated t
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15/07/2011 Press release
An international team of scientists including researchers from INRA and CNRS, have characterized the mechanism through which Serpula lacrymans, so-called Domestic Dry Rot, deteriorates wood. This disc
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05/05/2011 Press Info item
How can we optimise our diet so that it complies with all nutritional guidelines while deviating as little as possible from our personal food preferences and habits? Based on French food consumption
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28/10/2010 Press release
Researchers at the Joint Research Unit for Xenobiotics at INRA-Toulouse have shown for the first time in ex vivo tests that Bisphenol A (BPA), a controversial endocrine disruptor found in some packagi
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06/07/2010 Press Info item
A team of INRA researchers in the Joint Research Unit for Biochemistry and Plant Molecular Biology in Montpellier, working in collaboration with Belgian, Czech and Swedish teams, have made a major ste
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06/07/2010 Press Info item
Organic market-garden cropping systems can vary considerably, from highly extensive to more intensive methods. At the INRA Research Centre in Avignon, researchers in the Ecodevelopment Unit sought to
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24/06/2010 Research example
On 24 June 2010, INRA published the findings of a scientific expert report on dietary behaviours, commissioned by the Ministry responsible for food. This unprecedented study brought together some twen
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28/04/2010 Press Info item
Caterpillars of the corn borer, one of the principal pests of maize, display a specific behaviour: at the end of their growth, during harvest time, they travel down towards the soil and thus are able
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28/03/2010 Press release
A French-Italian consortium coordinated by a team from INRA-Nancy, and with the involvement of Genoscope[1], CNRS, and the Universities of Lorraine and the Mediterranean have published an article on s
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23/02/2010 Press Info item
Bee colonies have been declining for several years, and one of the hypotheses put forward is a weakening of their immune system, linked notably to a poorer diet. INRA researchers have studied the rel
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23/02/2010 Press Info item
Agricultural landscapes can constitute a real maze for the animal species that live in them. Based on genetic analyses, researchers from INRA and CNRS have shown that the dispersal of field voles, st
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23/02/2010 Press Info item
Acridids (grasshoppers) are a basic component in the diet of numerous invertebrate and vertebrate species. Understanding their population dynamics and abundance is thus of considerable importance whe
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15/12/2009 Press release
Researchers at INRA-Toulouse have demonstrated for the first time that exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA) affects intestinal function. BPA, a component of many plastic food containers, is often detected in
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27/11/2009 Press release
Researchers at the Pasteur Institute, CNRS, INRA and the Université Paris-Sud 11 have revealed details of the three-dimensional structure of an RNA-protein complex in the virus that causes bronchiolit
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24/11/2009 Press Info item
150 years after publication of the "Origin of Species", the seminal book in which Charles Darwin exposed his theory of evolution, the mechanisms leading to the formation of new species still remain ob
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24/11/2009 Press Info item
Three INRA research teams, working in collaboration with the French National Sequencing Centre, have sequenced the genome of a wine yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is also well known for its us
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24/11/2009 Press Info item
INRA researchers at Université Clermont 1, working in association with scientists from McGill University in Quebec, have recently published results of considerable importance to our understanding of t
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24/11/2009 Press Info item
Defending plants from saline stress is now a worrying situation encountered in many parts of the world that suffer from increasing pressure on water resources, notably because of climate change and th
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22/10/2009 Press release
A team of INRA researchers in Evry (Joint Research Unit for Plant Genomics, INRA-CNRS-Evry University) has recently identified the genetic mechanism by which a male flower becomes female in the melon.
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11/06/2009 Press release
A study carried out by Institut Pasteur researchers in cooperation with Inserm and INRA reveals how Listeria monocytogenes, the bacterium responsible for listeriosis, changes the activity of its entir
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08/06/2009 Press release
Research teams from INRA and Inserm have revealed findings that may lead to a new treatment against influenza, right at the time when a new flu epidemic is making its way across the globe. In an artic
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05/03/2009 Press release
The Amazon is surprisingly sensitive to drought, according to new research conducted throughout the world’s largest tropical forest. This study, published on the 6th of March 2009 in the journal "SCIE
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05/03/2009 Press release
Thanks to their high capacity for adaptation, bacteria progressively learn how to resist antibiotic treatments. French scientists from Inserm, Paris Descartes University, INRA, Pasteur Institute, and
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29/01/2009 Press release
A genetic study conducted by the team of Olivier Loudet at INRA-Versailles, in collaboration with the University of Nottingham, may have unlocked some of the secrets behind the reproductive barriers t
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18/12/2008 Press release
Although the wide, lobed geranium leaf bears little resemblance to the shamrock's leaflets, researchers from INRA-Versailles and their counterparts at Oxford University have discovered that the same g
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11/12/2008 Press release
A team of French, American and Swedish scientists, led by researchers from INRA-Lyon, and in collaboration with ENS-Lyon, CNRS and the Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, has just uncovered a fundamenta
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20/10/2008 Press release
French researchers from INRA and Inserm, in collaboration with AP-HP, have identified a species of bacteria that is key to Crohn’s disease. The fact that it is present in very small amounts, or even a
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02/10/2008 Press release
In an unprecedented achievement, an international team led by INRA researchers from Clermont-Ferrand, Toulouse and Versailles has completed the first physical map of the largest bread wheat chromosome
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19/09/2008 Press Info item
French scientists from INRA and the CNRS, in collaboration with a German scientist, found that the worldwide economic value of the pollination service provided by insect pollinators, mainly bees, was
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19/09/2008 Press Info item
INRA researchers have identified different preferences amongst livestock breeders regarding their workload distribution. This study explored the influence of these preferences on husbandry practices
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19/09/2008 Press Info item
INRA researchers are studying genes of agronomic importance in the melon, including sex determinism that may be associated with better yield. Most flowering plants have hermaphrodite flowers possessi
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11/08/2008 Press release
An international team of researchers from INRA-Versailles, CNRS/Université de Toulouse, and the University of Queensland, Australia* has just identified a new plant hormone that inhibits shoot branch
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28/07/2008 Press release
The full genome of a plant-parasitic animal has been sequenced for the first time by an international consortium of 27 laboratories, including INRA, CNRS, and Génoscope, and coordinated by a team of r
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21/07/2008 Research example
The TriticeaeGenome project, coordinated by INRA Clermont-Ferrand, launched on 11 June 2008, brings together top European laboratories for wheat and barley research with the goal to encourage the deve
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26/05/2008 Press Info item
A team of researchers from INRA and the ENS in Lyons, working in collaboration with University Lyon 1 and University Jean Monnet (St Etienne) has studied the origin of the characteristic tea scent of
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26/05/2008 Press Info item
Researchers from INRA and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic have studied the chemical communication of moths, the males of which locate females through the pheromones they release. They h
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26/05/2008 Press Info item
By studying patients with the sporadic form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, researchers from INRA, INSERM, CEA and the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit (United Kingdom) have successf
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19/05/2008 Research example
Canker stain is a major threat to plane trees, particularly in Europe. By crossing American and Oriental planes, resistant clones were obtained and evaluated. From this selection was born the PLATANOR
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28/04/2008 Press Info item
INRA scientists have applied the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method to the environmental analysis of a re-circulating fish production system. The different impact indicators of the LCA were determine
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28/04/2008 Press Info item
INRA researchers have assessed the efficacy of consumption recommendations in managing risks linked to the presence of methylmercury in fish, by analysing the effects of providing this information on
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05/03/2008 Press release
An international consortium coordinated by INRA-Nancy and with the participation of the U.S. Department of Energy, Nancy University and CNRS, has published an article on the sequencing and analysis of
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25/02/2008 Press Info item
Forestry management has numerous objectives, targeting its economic, ecological and social functions, the management and conservation of biodiversity and genetic resources, etc. INRA and CIRAD resear
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10/12/2007 Press Info item
Can French fish farming form part of the world dynamic affecting aquaculture? At the initiative of the INRA Fish Sector Commission, a working group* made up of researchers from different institutions
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10/12/2007 Press release
The European SIGMEA project: "Sustainable Introduction of Genetically Modified Crops into European Agriculture", for which INRA has assured the scientific coordination, presented its principal results
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12/11/2007 Press Info item
A team of INRA researchers has recently discovered that the element determining the stability of carbon stocks in deep soil layers (below 20 cm) is a deficit in the substrate supplying energy: an abse
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12/11/2007 Press Info item
Lysozyme is an enzyme found in some of our bodily secretions (tears, saliva, etc.) and also in egg white. It acts as a "natural antibiotic" as it attacks bacteria by exerting stress on their protecti
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12/11/2007 Press Info item
The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is an important source of protein in the human diet, particularly in many southern countries. However, yields in those regions are particularly low. But thanks t
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09/11/2007 Press release
The initial findings of the European Grain Legumes Integrated Project (GLIP) were presented at a conference held in Lisbon from 12 to 16 November 2007. Launched in 2004 to develop new strategies in pr
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10/10/2007 Press Info item
Osteoporosis is a major public health problem. This chronic age-related disorder results from a deterioration of bone architecture and a reduction in bone mineral density, causing the skeleton to bec
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10/10/2007 Press Info item
In March 2007, a plane equipped with a laser system flew over 11,000 hectares of the Forêt de Haye, near Nancy, the aim being to search for the secrets hidden below its trees. The first images arisin
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06/09/2007 Press Info item
The tenderness of beef, its flavour and its taste, depend not only on slaughter conditions and the ageing of meat, but also on the biological characteristics of muscle, which in turn are linked to the
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27/08/2007 Press release
A major achievement has been reached in plant biology: the first detailed analysis of the grapevine genome has just been published. The joint effort carried out by scientists from Genoscope and INRA i
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22/06/2007 Press Info item
The risky nature of managing natural resources, and particularly water, is a crucial element which must be taken into account in any economic analysis. However, the problem of estimating the risk pre
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22/06/2007 Press Info item
Global warming has become one of the principal concerns of modern society. INRA scientists and their partners(1) have been evaluating its impact on populations of aphids, which are important insects
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22/06/2007 Press Info item
INRA researchers, in collaboration with AFSSA, have performed a spatial analysis to study the sources of contamination by the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) agent in France, related to the use
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16/05/2007 Press release
A challenging goal in biology is to understand how the principal cellular functions are integrated so that cells achieve viability and optimal fitness under a wide range of nutritional conditions. Sci
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15/05/2007 Press Info item
INRA researchers have developed the first toxicity test on bee larvae where exposure to the product under investigation is perfectly controlled. This test, which responds to the needs expressed by ex
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15/05/2007 Press Info item
Scientists from INRA, CNRS and University Montpellier II have discovered a new toxin which is expressed by Xenorhabdus nematophila, a bacterium which is an insect pathogen. This toxin, which attacks
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13/04/2007 Press Info item
One in three households of professional farmers obtain income from a non-farming activity equivalent to more than half the annual minimum wage. An analysis carried out by INRA researchers, in collabo
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05/03/2007 Press release
Research teams from INRA at Jouy-en-Josas and from the Nestlé Research Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland, have been studying the effect of breast-feeding on the establishment of the intestinal microbial
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27/02/2007 Press kit item
Relatively unknown in France, Miscanthus giganteus is now in the European spotlight as a biofuel crop. It is high yielding, rich in lignocellulose and requires little in the way of inputs. Growing thi
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27/02/2007 Press kit item
The pine processionary caterpillar is a pest whose northward spread in France is being fostered by climate change. INRA researchers in Orleans are seeking to understand the conditions which favour t
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27/02/2007 Press kit item
Faced with concerns regarding obesity and diabetes in the European population, the European HEALTHGRAIN(1) project aims to better exploit the active components in European wheat and thus propose raw m
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11/12/2006 Press Info item
The lyophilisation, or freeze-drying, of biological materials, such as proteins, vaccines or microorganisms, helps keep them physically and chemically intact for several months or even several years.
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11/12/2006 Press Info item
The genome of the smallest free-living eukaryote, Ostreococcus tauri, was recently sequenced by a consortium of French and Belgian laboratories, including INRA. This single-celled plankton alga is of
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27/10/2006 Press Info item
"What controls the shape of a cell?" is one of the fundamental questions in cell biology. Five years ago, research by Rut Carballido-López (1) at the University of Oxford led to the discovery that Mr
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27/10/2006 Press Info item
In sheep, as in other animal species, there are certain “meat” breeds that exhibit exceptional muscularity. These are used to improve the quality of meat-type animals. For several decades, scientists
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24/10/2006 Press release
A review article, in which an INRA researcher from Avignon has participated, highlights the importance of pollinators for our environment and biodiversity throughout the world. The article was publish
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28/09/2006 Press release
On 28 September 2006, Antoine Kremer, a Research Director at INRA, Bordeaux received the 2006 Marcus Wallenberg prize. The prize of over €200,000 was presented to him by His Majesty King Carl XVI Gust
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03/05/2006 Research example
The atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases responsible for global warming has continued to increase since the beginning of the Industrial Age. Conservative estimates of the Intergovernmental P
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23/03/2006 Research example
Dwindling reserves of fossil fuel, rising oil prices and increasing quantities of greenhouse gases are just some of the reasons behind the development of biofuels. However, the present production of
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23/03/2006 Research example
Improving the energy output and the quality of paper, synthesizing flavours and new texturising agents for food products, developing new areas of biofuels… All of these industrial applications have o
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15/03/2006 Research example
On 02 March 2006, the vision paper “Sustainable Farm Animal Breeding and Reproduction: a Vision for 2025” was presented at the International Agricultural Show in Paris. This document is the first achi
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20/01/2006 Press release
As in all tissues, the proteins in muscle are constantly being produced (synthesised) and degraded. In adults, the two processes are equilibrated (nitrogen balance), so as to maintain a constant musc
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12/12/2005 Research example
A collective scientific expert report has been compiled at the request of the French Ministries for Agriculture and Fisheries and Ecology and Sustainable Development by INRA and CEMAGREF. This report
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01/12/2005 Press release
Researchers at INRA and BioProtein Technologies (1) have developed an original technique for producing a recombinant vaccine against a virus responsible for most of the cases of gastroenteritis in chi
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09/11/2005 Press release
The anorectic effect of proteins, known to exist in humans and animals, has long been exploited for diets and the treatment of obesity. The mechanisms involved in this effect were still poorly unders
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06/10/2005 Research example
INRA is helping to coordinate an international project to sequence the bread wheat genome. As the world’s leading cereal crop and a staple food for one third of the world’s population, wheat is an eco
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01/10/2005 Research example
"Sciences en questions" was set up by INRA to promote discussion and debate on philosophical, epistemological, sociological and ethical issues in science and research. Most of these issues are the sub
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15/04/2005 Research example
The elm tree, a familiar sight along Parisian avenues and hedge farmland, virtually disappeared from France in the 1970s following a devastating outbreak of Dutch elm disease. Research begun at the ti
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14/03/2005 Research example
Established in the heart of vineyard country in southwest France, a unique science centre is bridging the gap between winemaking traditions and modern innovation.
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24/02/2005 Research example
The Cheese Research Laboratory in Aurillac focuses on this microbial biodiversity in order to enhance the quality and variety of cheese whilst guaranteeing food safety.
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24/02/2005 Research example
Since the time of our ancestors, bacterial flora has been essential in preserving dry sausage, a natural and healthy cured meat product
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24/02/2005 Research example
The CNRZ not only stores information on cheesemaking technologies, it is also a tool used for conducting innovative studies on bacterial biodiversity.
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22/02/2005 Research example
Cities share the wonders of nature by creating parks and gardens or by letting vacant lots develop their own biodiversity. Sometimes, however, these areas are invaded by other species. Studying change
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22/02/2005 Research example
The way in which hedgerows and banks have been positioned, removed or replanted by farmers has shaped rural landscapes. Their density but also their diversity and their relations in space, maintained
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22/02/2005 Research example
Intestinal flora: 100 trillion bacteria.
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22/02/2005 Research example
Planting mixed hedgerows on the edge of pear orchards favours the development of beneficial organisms which help control pests.
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21/02/2005 Research example
The bacteria which infect sieve tubes can cause incurable diseases in numerous plant species. An in planta collection makes it possible to conserve and study them.
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