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13 December 2024

By: E.Fuzellier

We're recruiting - Design engineer

We're recruiting - Design engineer
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16 September 2025

By: A. Bouhenache / P. Thiébeau

Intra-seasonal rainfall patterns and extremes drive maize productivity and nitrogen use in sub-humid Zimbabwe

Background and purpose: Increasing intra-seasonal rainfall variability poses a major challenge to the sustainable intensification of rainfed maize systems in sub-Saharan Africa. This study investigates how intra-seasonal rainfall patterns and extreme dry and wet events affect maize productivity and nitrogen (N) use, particularly under crop residue mulching—a practice widely promoted to improve soil water and N availability.

Phenolic compounds fingerprints show distinct ligninolytic bacteria behaviours during technical lignins conversion

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Solmaz, Yassin and Gabriel took an active part in the largest conference dedicated to the study of plant walls, which was held in Vancouver, Canada, from 6 to 10 July 2025.

Neofusicoccum parvum Produces Specific Metabolites in Response to Grapevine Wood, Revealing Key Pathogenicity Mechanisms

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Uncovering the mechanisms and tools shaped by Nature to improve the use of renewable carbon and to contribute to sustainable development: this is the ambition of FARE laboratory (Fractionation of AgroResources and Environment).

Our mission, inside the network of our INRAE and URCA partner labs, is focused on three key points of the biological / technological transformation of lignocellulosic plant biomass, for non-food usages:

- follow the degradation of lignocellulose (culture residues, litters) by soil micro-organisms in the field, in order to maintain fertility and to favor ecosystem services necessary for a sustainable agriculture (input management, carbon and nitrogen cycles);

- fractionation of lignocellulose by enzymatic or microbial biotechnological processes, to produce chemicals of interest for chemistry and energy, while respecting the green chemistry concepts (2G bioethanol, sugar-based surfactant,…);

- using agro-sourced fibres and polymers to design innovative nanostructured materials with new optical properties (protective films and coatings) and composite materials with high technical and environmental performances (light, recyclable, biodegradable,…).

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Dr Gabriel Paës, Director of FARE