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06 June 2023

By: S. Recous / B. Chabbert / G. Lashermes / G. Paës

10 February 2020 - Duration of stem retting in the field depends on hemp harvesting date

Retting, first processing step in the field of fibre plant stems after harvesting, is a selective degradation of external tissues facilitating the subsequent mechanical extraction of industrially-relevant cellulosic fibers.
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06 June 2023

By: G. Paës

03 February 2020 - A review article on the state-of-the-art of biomass recalcitrance

Lignocellulosic biomass is the framework of plants and is an important feedstock for developing bioeconomy in order to propose biosourced products and energy. But its natural structural and chemical complexity makes it difficult to be transformed.
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06 June 2023

By: S. Recous / G. Paës

27 January 2020 - Plant residue mulch on the soil surface will hold no more secrets for you!

A webinar was organized by the Association Française d'Etude du Sol (AFES) and given by Sylvie Recous on January 16th.
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06 June 2023

By: G. Lashermes

7 January 2020 - A new model to calculate the microbial allocation of enzymes produced over soil decomposition

Plant litter is composed of different chemical compounds, such as cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin whose decomposition is catalyzed by extra-cellular enzymes produced by soil microorganisms. However, the mechanisms of decomposition are complicated by the physical and chemical links between cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin that require different enzymes to cleave.
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06 June 2023

By: G. Paës

12 December 2019 - New markers of lignocellulose recalcitrance

Lignocellulose is a plant resource containing polymers that can be valorised into biomolecules, fuels and materials, but its natural chemical and structural complexity makes its transformation difficult thus expensive and not competitive with processes using fossil carbon resources. So understanding its recalcitrance is an important challenge in order to favour the development of biorefineries in the context of bioeconomy and to use renewable feedstocks.
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06 June 2023

By: F. Berzin / G. Paës

10 December 2019 - Françoise Berzin elected to the French Group of Rheology Board of Directors

Founded in 1964, the French Group of Rheology (GFR) is member of the International Committee of Rheology and the European Society of Rheology (ESR). Its main objectives are to contribute to the development of studies and research related to rheology and to promote dissemination to the scientific community and the transfer to industry of the progress made in its various fields.
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06 June 2023

By: S. Recous / G. Paës

29 November 2019 - FARE was at the 14th Conference on Rationale Fertilization and Analysis

This conference was jointly organized by the French Committee for the Study and Development of Rationale Fertilization (COMIFER) and the French Group of Methodological Studies for Soil Analysis (GEMAS) and took place on 20 and 21 November 2019 in Dijon.
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06 June 2023

By: S. Abdellaoui / G. Paës

18 November 2019 - FARE participated to the second LignoCOST network meeting in Portugal

The meeting of the LignoCOST network was held in Peso de Régua in November 12-14.
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06 June 2023

By: G. Lashermes / L. Besaury / G. Paës

15 November 2019 - FARE participated to the IXth AFEM meeting in Büssang

The IXth congress of the Francophone Association of Microbial Ecology (AFEM) brought together microbiologists working in a wide range of environments and of organisms! This year, it was held in Büssang, in the Vosges Mountain in France, from November 5-8: an opportunity for FARE scientists to exchange ideas, results and tools with this community.
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06 June 2023

By: S. Recous / B. Chabbert / G. Lashermes / G. Paës

26 September 2019 - The Académie d'Agriculture awards the Dufrenoy silver medal to Laurent Bleuze

During a solemn session, the Académie d'Agriculture de France presented its prizes and medals. Laurent Bleuze received the Dufrenoy silver medal for his doctoral thesis from Reims University and carried out at FARE laboratory.
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06 June 2023

By: G. Paës

09 September 2019 - Fluorescence lifetime to characterize lignocellulose

Characterization of lignocellulose can be performed with numerous physico-chemical and spectral methods.Fluorescence lifetime measurement is a method recently applied that completes those already in use.
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06 June 2023

By: Y. Refahi / G. Paës

22 July 2019 - FARE participated to XVth Cell Wall Meeting

Cell Wall Meeting which took place at Cambridge, United Kingdom is one of the largest meetings dedicated to the synthesis and transformation of plant cell walls.
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06 June 2023

By: G. Paës

15 July 2019 - FARE in the Research and Innovation report of INRA CEPIA division

Edition 2019 of the Research and Innovation report of INRA CEPIA division has just been released!
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06 June 2023

By: B. Chabbert / G. Paës

10 July 2019 - FARE at ICNF congress in Porto

The 4th edition of the International Congress on Natural Fibres took place in Porto (Portugal) from May 19 to 22. This major congress in the field of plant fibres was an opportunity to present FARE work.
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06 June 2023

By: G. Paës / Y. Refahi

06 May 2019 - PhD position in Computer Science at FARE lab

A PhD project dedicated to Multi-scale Modelling of Lignocellulosic Biomass Deconstruction is available through a collaboration between INRA and INRIA.
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06 June 2023

By: G. Paës

17 April 2019 - Fungal secretomes to tackle biomass recalcitrance

In the frame of the Funlock project funded by ANR, researchers from several French labs (INRA, CNRS, IFPEN) gathered to study how fungal secretomes could help in degrading recalcitrant lignocellulosic biomass.
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06 June 2023

By: G. Paës

12 avril 2019 - FARE was at the ACS Meeting in Orlando

The American Chemical Society organises twice a year an international meeting on all topics related to chemistry. The spring meeting happened last week in Orlando, Florida.
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06 June 2023

By: S. Recous / G. Paës

26 March 2019 - FARE participates in the working seminar of the ResidueGas project

This project deals with improving estimation and mitigation of nitrous oxide emissions and soil carbon storage from crop residues.
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06 June 2023

By: G. Paës

06 February 2019 - Lignin at the nanoscale: impact on recalcitrance

Lignin is a major component of lignocellulose which makes the plant cell walls and is considered as a relevant feedstock for making biofuels, chemicals and renewable materials. But lignin limits the activity of enzymes by making some pore entanglements thus limiting access to polysaccharides and by interacting non-productively with them.
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06 June 2023

By: L. Bleuze / G. Paës

24 January 2019 - Laurent Bleuze's PhD Thesis defense

After 3 years of doctoral work, the retting of hemp no longer holds any secrets for Laurent!
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06 June 2023

By: S. Recous / G. Paës

07 January 2019 - FARE coordinates a book on biodiversity in agroecosystems

Entitled "Agrosystem diversity: reconciling contemporary agriculture and environmental quality", this book was written under the direction of G. Lemaire (INRA), P. C. de Faccio Carvalho (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), S. Kronberg (USDA, USA) and S. Recous INRA, senior researcher in FARE.
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