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22 Nov 2006
After six years of research, researchers in the INRA-INPT-ENSIACET unit in Toulouse, and R&D teams at Lapeyre, have developed a revolutionary treatment for construction timber. The Wood Protect® process, patented by Lapeyre and the INPT, protects timber in-depth against external attack, while endowing it with an unequalled stability and lifespan. This innovative treatment is based on a chemical process which uses natural and non-toxic reagents. It thus naturally forms part of the new high priority objective for research, "green chemistry", which consists in creating more environmentally-friendly chemical products, notably using agricultural resources.
18 Oct 2006
Although the recurrence of droughts in recent times may be purely coincidental, the possibility of this happening more often has led the Ministry of Agriculture to task INRA with conducting a collective scientific expert report on the links between drought and agriculture.
29 Sep 2006
INRA was the first French research institute to carry out artificial selection experiments on rapeseed. This research has spanned 70 years and has resulted in many new discoveries and innovations. Over that time span, rapeseed has gone from having a marginal presence in France to covering more than 1,500,000 hectares of land in 2015.
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15 Jul 2006
This annual report provides an opportunity to present the aims and achievements of the French Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) during 2005.
08 Jun 2006
Georges Pelletier was the first winner of INRA’s Agricultural Research Award in 2006. When asked to describe his most significant contributions, he starts by citing cytoplasmic male sterility: "The research took over 15 years, starting in the 1980s, and was riddled with technical challenges. But when you compare what we thought then and what we know now, you really see how scientific understanding has progressed”.
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