Search results for "Agricultural Science"

Assessment of Postharvest Dehydration Kinetics and Skin Mechanical Properties of “Muscat of Alexandria” Grapes by Response Surface Methodology

2016

The dipping of berries in a dilute solution of sodium hydroxide during a short time was evaluated as pretreatment undertaken prior to convective dehydration of wine grapes. The impact of the sodium hydroxide content and dipping time on weight loss (WL) at different dehydration times was thoroughly assessed using central composite design (CCD) and response surface methodology (RSM). Furthermore, the effects of these two variables were also investigated on the skin mechanical properties of dehydrated grapes. The effect of these two pretreatment factors on the dehydration kinetics and skin hardness was satisfactorily fitted to regression models. The berry pretreatment with low sodium hydroxide…

Sustainable viticulure in Brazil's context : a proposition

2015

The thesis involves the proposition of a framework for the sustainability of viticulture in Brazil using a territorial approach built from two exploratory studies in Brazilian wine regions of Campanha Gaúcha and Vale do São Francisco based on preliminary studies. Those studies involved technical visits in three countries (France, Italy and Spain) and frameworks’ observations in another five (South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, USA and Chile). The framework proposed is called BaccuS. It is structured on a matrix basis, with an axis corresponding to dimensions and other to guidelines, both in ascending order of complexity and development. There are eighteen topics that represent areas to ac…

A quoi pourrait ressembler la filière vigne et vin française en 2050 ? Une mobilisation concertée pour répondre à cet enjeu

2019

Les hêtraies du Châtillonnais (Côte-d'Or) face au changement climatique.

2013

15 pages; International audience; L'étude traite des hêtraies du Châtillonnais (Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne) face au changement climatique observé. Les données regroupent les séries bourguignonnes de température et de précipitation des stations de Météo France (1989-2009), la carte des hêtraies de l'Institut forestier national (IFN), un modèle numérique de terrain (MNT, SRTM) et quatre indices de vulnérabilité du hêtre identifiés dans la littérature. La méthode repose sur une interpolation fine (mailles de 100 m) de ces indices par régression-krigeage. Les résultats permettent de cartographier les risques actuels.

Characterization of aged champagne wine aroma by GC-O and descriptive profile analyses

2000

Le but du travail est de caracteriser l'evolution de l'arome du champagne au cours du vieillissement et de comparer sous ce rapport le vieillissement accelere a 40 °C au vieillissement normal. Les methodes mises en oeuvre a cet effet sont l'analyse sensorielle, et les techniques GC-O et GC-MS. La representativite des extraits a ete etudiee au prealable par tests triangulaires et tests de similarite. Les profils descriptifs ont ete etablis par un panel d'experts sur des echantillons jeunes et vieillis. L'intensite des notes florale et fruitee diminue au cours du vieillissement, celles des notes boisee et d'evolution augmentent. On observe cependant des differences sensorielles entre les prod…

Identification of the cell-wall derived xyloglucan as a new damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP) eliciting plant immunity in Vitis vinifera and…

2018

Activation of the plant immune responses requires recognition of common pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP) by their cognate pattern recognition receptors (PRR). Chitin, a major component of fungal cell walls, is a well-known PAMP that triggers defense responses in several mammal and plant species.In the first part of this study, we show that two chitooligosaccharides, chitin and chitosan, act as PAMPs in grapevine (Vitis vinifera) as they elicit immune signaling events, defense gene expression, and resistance against pathogens. These two PAMPs are active in grapevine suggesting that at least one perception system exists. Phylogenetic analysis clearly distinguished three V. vinifer…

Réponses des cellules de Nicotiana tabacum à des molécules microbiennes : évènements de signalisation précoce, influence de la dynamique membranaire …

2018

In their natural environment plants are in close interaction with beneficial, neutral, or pathogenic microbes, which are highly dependent on carbon resources exuded by plant roots. Sugar transport, which is a key process of plant physiology, is essential to support the fate of plant-microbe interactions. During evolution, plants have acquired the ability to perceive microbial molecules, initiating specific signal transduction cascades and leading to adapted response for microbe lifestyles (avirulent, virulent, or benefic). Plant survival will depend on the nature of the induced mechanisms. My PhD work, carried out on a simplified experimental system, contributes to the understanding of mech…

La matriz de análisis de políticas con datos eficientes: evaluación de la rentabilidad del cultivo del arroz

2008

This paper combines policy analysis matrix and data envelopment analysis techniques to model the analysis of profitability from farming. Policy analysis matrices are computed for a sample of rice growers located in the wetland of the Albufera (Eastern Spain) under observed conventional and profit-efficient farming conditions. While conventional analysis points to a lack of profitability, farmers are shown to make positive profits at private and social prices when data reflecting efficiency adjustments are used in the analysis. The main conclusion is that the usefulness of the policy analysis matrix might be substantially enhanced by simulating profitability after efficiency-improving manage…

Storytelling and story testing in domestication

2014

The domestication of plants and animals marks one of the most significant transitions in human, and indeed global, history. Traditionally, study of the domestication process was the exclusive domain of archaeologists and agricultural scientists; today it is an increasingly multidisciplinary enterprise that has come to involve the skills of evolutionary biologists and geneticists. Although the application of new information sources and methodologies has dramatically transformed our ability to study and understand domestication, it has also generated increasingly large and complex datasets, the interpretation of which is not straightforward. In particular, challenges of equifinality, evolutio…

Lactic acid bacteria strains for bioprotection application with cells entrapment in biopolymeric matrices

2013

Among the various methods to control foodborne pathogenic and/or food spoilage microorganisms in food chain, bioprotective lactic acid bacteria (LAB) appear to be promising tools for food biopreservation. This collaborative study, between PAPC (Agrosup Dijon, University of Burgundy) and BioDyMIA (University Lyon1-Lyon Isara) laboratories, concerned the development of sodium alginate/sodium caseinate polymeric matrices intended to entrap LAB cells selected for their anti-Listeria spp. activity. First, 4 LAB strains from 19 LAB strains were selected for their anti-Listeria spp. activity: this screening was performed by the method of agar diffusion against three Listeria spp strains. Then, ant…