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The cold chain permits to process and commercialise in good conditions of quality and safety a wide range of foods. However the cold chain represents high energy consumption. OPTICOLD objective is to increase sustainability of the cold chain by optimising the compromise between energy consumption,

The specific objectives of the project will be: - To characterize the secondary metabolome of Fusarium graminearum during infection of wheat living plants and grains - To characterize the secondary metabolome of Penicillium verrucosum during grain contamination. - To compare the impact of the var

This research programme aims at two main objectives: 1) Identifying the volatile compounds of colostrum/milk and other mammary secretions from women and mice, which unconditionally elicit attraction and appetitive responses in their respective newborns. This objective implies that forerunning work

Getting from a proof of principle strain (a few mg/L) to a pre-industrial optimized strain (a few g/L) for producing a chemical of interest is a long and tedious process based on trial-and-error. In this project, we aim at showing that a supervised machine learning approach can be used to reduce the

This project aims at evaluating gene transfers occurring through ICE between bacteria brought by dietary intake and commensal bacteria of the digestive tract. Work focuses on gene transfers within Streptococcus, an interesting bacterial genus since it includes various species that live or transit in

Agroecology, or, more accurately, several of its currents, has gain in recent years an important recognition, transforming from an “anti-establishment” model against the Green Revolution to an appropriate (or befitted) model to meet the challenges of global change. The success of agroecology is unde

In crop diseases management, the conventional diagnostic tools are based on epidemiological risk models incorporating meteorological data at the regional scale. Using fluorescence of plants, FORCE-A is developing innovative diagnostic tools for disease risk assessment and early disease detection. Th

The joint challenges of food security and conservation of agrobiodiversity are making us rethink the issue of agricultural production. We have to produce more, but especially better in order to sustain biological diversity and mitigate climate change. This urgently calls for the development of a sus

Potato, the 4th worldwide food crop culture, represents a major economic stake both in developed and developing countries. Its culture is recommended by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. A limiting factor in the expansion of potato culture is its sensitivity to a wide diversit

The project, based on a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of sorption of organic molecules (toxins, pesticides, residues of drugs, plastics, etc.) in liquids (water, wine, juice, etc.) on solids, To design future innovative decontamination processes. 1. The first axis of work is chemical m

Cadmium (Cd) and mycotoxins are among the most worrying contaminants that threaten the safety of food products derived from cereal kernels. Indeed, as recently supported by the last French total diet survey (Anses, 2011), deoxynivalenol (DON) and Cd human exposure through food mainly results from th

Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928, humans have widely developed and used antibiotics to combat microbial infections. However, inappropriate and excessive use of these molecules has led to the emergence of pathogens resistant to all classes of antibiotics. According to the World Health Organi

Camelina is emerging as an alternative oilseed crop due to its resistance to adverse growth conditions and the quality of its oil for nutrition or biofuel production. Camelina oil is rich in unsaturated fatty acids and in particular omega-3 fatty acids that are renowned for their health benefits. Es

Green coffee beans are contaminated by molds of the genus Aspergillus, an ochratoxin (OTA) producer. Cereals, wine and coffee are the foods that contribute the most to OTA human ingestion: respectively 50, 13 and 10% in Europe. European legislation has set a maximum level for OTA in roasted coffee (

The recent invasion of fruit production areas by the Spotted Wing Drosophila fly (SWD), Drosophila suzukii, is a major concern for Europe’s soft fruit production sector. Chemical control proved to be ineffective and inadvisable due to regulation, pest resistance, and environmental and human health c

The continued growth of the human population combined with several related factors such as growing international exchanges, climate changes, burst of resistant pathogens, increased livestock production, or increased immunodepressed population favour the emergence and re-emergence of many infectious

Polymyxin E, also known as colistin, was used initially in humans for treatment of infections caused by Gram negative bacteria. Because of its nephrotoxicity, colistin was withdrawn from therapeutic use in humans. Nevertheless, with increasing microbial resistance to current antibiotics and the lack

The scientific aims of PUNCH are to produce first quality knowledge: -To describe with a qualitative perspective the food socialization process of children up to 3 years -To evaluate the impact of early feeding practices on infant’s capacity to control energy intake -To assess children’s sensitiv

Ungulates (sheep, goats...) have a seasonal breeding characterised by a period of sexual activity (september-february) followed by a period of sexual rest (or anestrus period, march-august). During the season of sexual rest, females are reproductively quiescent and have therefore no ovarian cycle. H

Marine organisms are one of the most underutilized biological resources. The extreme diversity of microalgae, unicellular photosynthetic organisms that are known to produce large quantities of polysaccharides, makes them very attractive for bioprospecting and potential exploitation as commercial sou