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Signalement-Tique app

Press release

18 Jul 2017

A new smartphone app to understand and prevent Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases

Signalement-Tique is a free app available now for download on iOS and Android smartphones. INRA and the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES), together with France’s Ministry for Solidarity and Health, are seeking volunteers to participate in research in the fight against ticks and tick-borne diseases.

Post doc opening

News

17 Jul 2017

Postdoctoral Position in Modelling Carbon Allocation and Tree Hydraulics (INRA Nancy, France)

We are looking for a postdoc to model carbon allocation and tree hydraulics,within the European project ForRisk !

WOODCHEM 2017 - Logo © WOODCHEM

News

07 Jul 2017

WOODCHEM® 2017 : Firts announcement and call for Papers !

The WOODCHEM® 2017 Congress, an international scientific conference dedicated to wood-based chemistry, will take place in Nancy, France on 6-7 December 2017.

Ectomycorhize de pin sylvestre avec Laccaria laccata. Noter la forme bifide et la présence de mycélium frangeant. Mycorhize jeune.. © INRA, LE TACON François

Press release

30 May 2017

Symbioses between plants, fungi and bacteria: a new look at these ancestral alliances

A review appearing in the online edition of Science (26th May 2017), authored by three INRA researchers (associated with the Universities of Lorraine and Toulouse and the CNRS), starts with an overview of the rich evolutionary history of the principal mycorrhizal and nitrogen-fixing plant symbioses.

Poplar roots and the black mycelium and mycorrhizas formed by Cenococcum. © INRA, Martina Peter

Press release

07 Sep 2016

Symbiotic fungus helps plants to withstand drought

To understand the beneficial effect of ectomycorrhizal symbiosis on the resilience of trees to drought stress, an international consortium, led by INRA and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)1, sequenced the genome of the root symbiont Cenococcum geophilum and characterized its gene expression in symbiotic roots upon high drought stress.