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Mechanisms of Activation of Transfer of Integrative and Conjugative Elements in digestive Ecosystem – MATICE
Intestinal microbiota plays a major role in human health. Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) between bacteria brought by food and resident bacteria can threaten its equilibrium by conferring novel properties to digestive bacteria (antibiotic resistance, novel catabolic properties…). Conjugation, the main mechanism of HGT, is encoded by several classes of mobile genetic elements, in particular chromosomal Integrative and Conjugative Elements (ICEs), which are widespread but still poorly known.
Institutionalizing agroecologies – IDAE
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 appropr
Diffuse and fluorescence light Analysis with Gathered Novel Opto Sensors for early Inexpensive diagnosis Solutions – DIAGNOSIS
Light based analysis of bio-materials can be applied in several fields of application like food/crops quality assessment. The reliable measurement of low signals constitute a technological challenge in this field, and the DIAGNOSIS project aims at developing a generic system, based on smart photo-sensor arrays in CMOS technology, with high quality measurements achieved by on-chip signal processing. Driven by the end-user, these low-cost solutions will widen the spreading of this technology.
Development of kisspeptin analogs for reproduction control – Kiss
Design of synthetic analogs of the endogenous neuropeptide kisspeptin with a pharmacological profile suited for reproduction management
Improving feed efficiency in dairy cows: understanding its key determinants using precision phenotyping, to allow tailored genetic selection strategies according to environment. – Deffilait
Improving feed efficiency in dairy cows: understanding its key determinants using precision phenotyping, to allow tailored genetic selection strategies according to environment.
Identification and characterization of plant factors that counteract bacterial-mediated suppression of RNA silencing – PRIM
Identification and characterization of plant factors that control pathogen-mediated suppression of RNA silencing
Acrostyle in aphid stylets: a key for crop protection – StylHook
Aphids are sap-feeding insects with piercing-sucking mouthparts. They are serious pests in agriculture and provoke significant losses, not only reducing plant growth by deprivation of nutrients, but a
Moving the wine yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae up its adaptive peak in grape must – PEAKYEAST
Sustaining a growing population while preserving nature is challenging, especially in an increasingly unpredictable climate. In this context, high production levels of fine wine will require innovations. Such breakthroughs are likely to arise from experimenting with the grape must’s microbial community that determine many wine characteristics. We propose to study the evolutionary genetics of the main wine yeast, S. cerevisiae, in its microbial community.
Reproductive Ability in relation to boar taint risk in entire male pigs – AROME
Public pressure to abandon castration has led stakeholders within the European Union to sign a voluntary declaration to end pig chirurgical castration practices by January 2018. Abandoning surgical ca
NLR immune receptors for sustainable disease resistance in cereal crops – ImmuneReceptor
Plant diseases are among the most important problems in agriculture and the use of disease resistance (R) genes is a key strategy for plant protection. ImmuneReceptor addresses fundamental questions i