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12 Oct 2017

Poultry Quality Evaluation

Food and nutrition - Results, Innovations, Transfer

Poultry Quality Evaluation: Quality Attributes and Consumer Values provides a new reference source that covers these aspects with the same scientific authority as texts on traditional poultry meat quality values.

Person working with an isolation chamber for the study of intestinal microbiota in a confined and controlled environment. © Bertrand NICOLAS, INRA, NICOLAS Bertrand

Press release

05 Oct 2017

Human intestinal microbiota: progress towards a standardised protocol for the processing of stool samples

Diet and health - Mechanisms of living organisms

The major impact of DNA extraction on the evaluation of the microbial composition of human stool samples.

Plot of wheat in the Yvelines (greater Paris region). © INRA, WEBER Jean

Press release

02 Oct 2017

Win-win strategies for climate and food security

Climate Change

Climate policies that target agriculture and forests could lead to increased food prices, but reducing deforestation and increasing soil carbon sequestration in agriculture could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions while avoiding risk to food security, according to new research published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.  

Pile of journals © Gabriella Fabbri-Stock.xchng

Press release

26 Sep 2017

Research and agricultural higher education publications: ranked 1st worldwide for number of citations in animal and plant sciences

Economics and social sciences

An exploratory study carried out by INRA within the Agreenium network has made it possible to identify the key strengths in French research and agricultural higher education on an international level. Agreenium is a cooperation institute that brings together 14 higher education institutions and 4 research bodies.

Spodoptera frugiperda caterpillar © Marie FRAYSSINET

Press release

25 Sep 2017

Scientists decode the genome of Fall Armyworm: a moth pest that is invading Africa

Animal biology

As part of an international consortium, INRA researchers, in partnership with the CEA and INRIA, have sequenced one of the first genomes of a moth from the superfamily Noctuoidea: Spodoptera frugiperda, or armyworm. This crop pest – until now only known on the American continent – has become invasive in Africa since 2016.