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06 June 2023

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06 July - FARE involved in a meeting dedicated to nitrogen

FARE participated in the organization of the side-event "Nutrient management and decision support systems" of the 20th International N workshop in Rennes.
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06 June 2023

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02 July 2018 - ELB 2018 meeting organised by FARE has been a success!

"Exploring lignocellulosic biomass: challenges and opportunity for bioeconomy" meeting was organised in Reims in June 26-29, 2018 in the Congress Centre by FARE laboratory and its partners.
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06 June 2023

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12 June 2018 - Tillage practices change the ability of microorganisms to degrade organic matter

Stabilizing carbon in soil as organic matter is crucial at the local scale for soil fertility, and at the global scale for climate change mitigation. The carbon stocks in the soil depend on the "inputs" made in particular by organic inputs (plant litters, organic amendments, etc.) transformed into stable organic matter in the soil under microorganisms activities. They also depend on the "outputs", especially the ability of microorganisms to degrade the ‘old’ carbon stock of the soil.
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06 June 2023

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06 June 2018 - Raphaël Coste wins the Best Poster Award at the Florida AVS 2018 Symposium

Raphaël has presented his poster during an Inter-University Symposium held in early May at the University of Central Florida (USA).
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06 June 2023

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14 May 2018 - Only a few days to register to ELB 2018 meeting!

FARE organizes the meeting Exploring Lignocellusic Biomass (ELB 2018), June 26-29, 2018 in Reims.
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06 June 2023

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22 February 2018 - Plant cell wall in super resolution!

New fluorescence microscopy techniques (so-called super resolution techniques) allows to go beyond the diffraction limit which has been considered for a long time as a barrier for microscopists. Until now, these techniques have only been used in biomedical studies.
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06 June 2023

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15 February 2018 - A meta-model to predict uncertainties of N2O production

Within the framework of the Global Research Alliance for Greenhouse Gas (GRA) and FACCE-JPI projects, INRA coordinated the evaluation and inter-comparison of 24 carbon-nitrogen models (16 for field crops and 12 for grasslands), considered individually and as an ensemble, on nine experimental sites on four continents. For the first time, this work shows the potential of the model ensemble approach to jointly predict crop production and N2O emissions intensity.
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06 June 2023

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07 February 2018 - New pentoses-based esters produced by enzymatic way

Agro-ressources-based surfactants such as sugar esters are ingredients of interest for various applications: cosmetics, food, phytosanitaries, detergents,… Sugar esters are biodegradable and non-toxic for human and environment. Commercial sugar esters are currently produced by chemical ways that can limit the structures and properties of produced surfactants.
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06 June 2023

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25 January 2018 - Combining ionic liquids and enzymes for the fractionation of wheat bran

The pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass with ionic liquids is generally conducted in a first step before enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose and hemicelluloses.
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06 June 2023

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23 January 2018 - Tracking enzymatic deconstruction of plant cell walls at synchrotron

Combining microscopy with UV and infrared synchrotron beamlines allows in situ tracking of the boosting effect of a lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase (LPMO) on the deconstruction of miscanthus cell walls by cellulases.
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06 June 2023

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18 January 2018 - Collaboration with University of Tennessee

FARE lab develops new collaborations on the nanometric characterization of lignocellulosic biomass with Prof. Nicole Labbe of the University of Tennessee (USA) in the framework of projects associating LRN (URCA).
ELB 2018 meeting
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06 June 2023

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12 January - Opening of the ELB 2018 meeting website

There it is, the website is opened for abstract submission!
Qualitative states of hydrolysis
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06 June 2023

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20 November 2017 - Qualitative reasoning applied to cellulose hydrolysis

With the accumulation of scientific information in publications, even experts can find difficult to keep integrating new piece of information and results for modelling. The approach we propose aims at constructing mechanistic explanation from selected scientific papers using the Qualitative Reasoning framework.
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06 June 2023

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07 November 2017 - The final workshop of the CN-MIP project coordinated by FARE was held in Paris

This workshop, coordinated by Sylvie Recous of the FARE lab, took place from 25 to 27 October at INRA headquarters.
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06 June 2023

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02 November 2017 - Xylose and xylobiose-based ionic liquids

Ionic Liquids are compounds of importance due to their potential applications in various fields such as catalysis, synthetic chemistry, electrochemistry, solubilization and transformation of biopolymers,…
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06 June 2023

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18 October 2017 - Raphaël Coste in Florida to map the properties of plant fibers

Raphaël has continued his PhD thesis work since August 2017 in the team of Dr. Laurène Tetard at the Center for Technology in Nanoscience (University of Central Florida).
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06 June 2023

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29 September 2017 - Launch event of the Interreg Valbran project

The launch event of the Interreg Valbran project, carried out by FARE and the AFERE chair was organized on September 26th 2017. More than 70 people (French and Belgian journalists, scientists, industrials, political representatives) attended the event, which was organized on the Biowanze industrial site, the leader in the production of 1st generation bioethanol in Belgium.
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06 June 2023

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21 September 2017 - Predicting biomass saccharification by fluorescence spectroscopy

In the frame of the Futurol project dedicated to the production of second generation bioethanol, various biomass samples are pretreated then hydrolyzed before being fermented into ethanol.
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06 June 2023

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14 September 2017 - Monitoring hemp retting in the field

FARE sets up a tailored methodology to monitor hemp retting.
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06 June 2023

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11 September 2017 - Impact of growing practices on the production of hemp fiber

In collaboration with FRD and the University of Lille, we have evaluated the effect of hemp cultivation practices on fiber production and chemical variability of technical fibers for making materials.
Interactions protein-carbohydrate
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06 June 2023

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19 July 2017 - Measurement of the interactions between proteins and carbohydrates

The interactions of proteins involved in plant cell wall hydrolysis, such as enzymes and CBMs, significantly determine their role and efficiency, but these interactions are most of the time measured with simple substrates non-representative of the cell wall complexity.