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Bluetongue virus, BTV © Polly Roy

Press release

11 Jun 2019

Bluetongue virus can hijack the cellular machinery of its host

Researchers at INRA, ANSES, and ENVA have discovered that bluetongue virus can enhance its replication by exploiting one of its host's cellular pathways. Published in the Journal of Virology, their results could help the quest to identify effective antiviral compounds for combating the virus.

Semantic Web cloud. © INRA

News

03 May 2019

Navigating the Semantic Web

The World Wide Web is an ocean of heterogeneous data from a broad diversity of sources. How can we structure these data so that they can be processed by machines and yield new knowledge? Danaï Symeonidou is a member of the Joint Research Unit for Mathematics, Informatics, and Statistics for the Environment and Agronomy (MISTEA) at the INRA centre of Occitanie-Montpellier. Here, she explains the intricacies of the Semantic Web.

Bouhedma National Park in Tunisia, one of the 123 sites sampled across the world for this study © Yoann Pinguet

Press release

08 Apr 2019

Biodiversity matters: rare species play an essential role in ecosystem multifunctionality

An international research team that included INRA and CNRS scientists has revealed the key role played by rare plant species in maintaining ecosystem "multifunctionality": both species and evolutionary diversity is important. Based on data from 123 sampling sites around the world, the results show that taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic biodiversity matters for ecosystem functioning.

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Magazines

21 Oct 2011

Bovine genomics. © INRA

Bovine genomics: Contributions to the future of livestock

Workshop held during the Livestock Summit Meeting, on October 6th, 2011, at Clermont-Ferrand (France). The workshop was organised by INRA with the participation of the French professional organisations concerned.

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Reports

Arabidopsis thaliana flowers from the INRA-Versailles collection of insertion lines. These lines are transformed by a genetic construction which features a marker gene (GUS) without promoters. When the insertion is made after the plant promoter develops, the expression of the GUS gene appears in blue, visible in this photo in the flower’s vessels. © INRA, INRA, David BOUCHEZ

Understanding the mechanism behind dominant and recessive gene expression

Epigenetics. © INRA, INRA

Livestock epigenetics: laying the foundation for future benefits

The International Centre of Microbial Resources (CIRM), yeast collection in Grignon. © INRA, MAITRE Christophe

Genetic and biological resources

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