Functioning and exchanges in diversified agroecosystems

Functioning and exchanges at interfaces. How do plants interact in a complex world?

For more sustainable agriculture, we are diversifying our landscapes: crop associations, return of hedges, urban greening. These richer and more heterogeneous systems are also more complex to understand. Our first research line aims to decipher the fundamental mechanisms that govern plant functioning and their exchanges with the environment in these diversified ecosystems.

Our Key Questions:

  • How do plants adapt to multiple and combined stresses (drought, pollutants, diseases)?
  • How do crop associations (planting several species together) allow for better use of resources like nitrogen and water?
  • What is the role of invisible exchanges between plant roots and the billions of microorganisms in the soil?
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Exemples de projets

  • REGHAIE
  • SOFORA : Formation of secondary organic aerosols following the recycling of organic waste products in agriculture (https://anr.fr/Projet-ANR-21-CE01-0019)
  • MOBIDIV : Produce and disseminate knowledge to boost breeding for within-field cultivated biodiversity as a major driver towards a pesticide-free agriculture (https://mobidiv.hub.inrae.fr/)
  • SILICOL : Functional-structural plant models (FSPM) for rapeseed
    VALON 

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