Partners and Agribusiness

APPI-N: the innovative and participatory design of nitrate fertilisation for wheat

Managing the nitrate fertilisation of winter wheat without yield or residue goals is a new method that responds to current societal demands and enables the both the diagnosis of uses, participatory workshops and modelling.

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UMT PACTOLE: valorising oilseeds and grain legumes

UMT PACTOLE: for diversified agriculture valorising oilseeds and grain legumes (Pour une AgriCulTure diversifiée valorisant les Oléagineux et les LEgumineuses à graines), aims to address the challenge of the agroecological and nutritional transition of cropping systems. Soybean, sunflower and chickpea are the crops that are central to these more diversified cropping systems.

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UMT SI-BIO : pour des systèmes alimentaires et horticoles biologiques

Fruits and vegetables play an important role in our diets. These crops face major ecological challenges because of their considerable use of inputs, especially artificial ones. The challenge for the UMT SI-BIO is to support the transition to organics of these food and horticultural systems.

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Phenomic selection: an opportunity for the future?

Genomic selection has enabled the improvement of breeding schemes in numerous species where the genotyping matrix serves as a foundation to predict the performance of new individuals. Less costly and equally as efficient, phenomic selection – based on near infrared spectroscopy – will offer an inexpensive alternative for selection in many species.

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“Four-star” stalls to measure digestibility in cattle

These stalls benefit from the most recent innovations in terms of task automation. Designed to maximise the welfare and comfort of both animals and operators, they can be used for both young cattle and adult suckler or dairy cows, and guarantee the accuracy of measurements necessary to evaluate digestibility.

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27 May 2019

MaaT Pharma: 3 new patents: microbiome restoration biotherapeutic platform

First patents to cover the fundamental processes for accessing the human gut microbiome as biotherapeutics. MaaT Pharma’s microbiome sample collection and administration devices receive CE mark for use in collecting and administrating gut-derived samples as biotherapeutics to patients.

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28 Mar 2019

UMT DIGIPORC: digital tools for the pig sector

DIGIPORC aims to help the French pig sector to acquire new digital tools that will ensure more efficient and sustainable multi-performance pig farming system.

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Results, Innovations, Transfer

12 Apr 2019

Sensory analysis test. © INRA, TSI - Sensostat

3 questions for a start-up: TimeSens and SensoStat

Touch, hearing or taste… analysing sensory perceptions relative to a food, cosmetic, pharmaceutical or other product is the focus for SensoStat, a private research institute that is expert in sensory tests and consumers. Arnaud Thomas, Research & Innovation Manager at SensoStat, and Pascal Schlich, research scientist at the CSGA, answered our questions.

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04 Jul 2019

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