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Dynamique et assemblage des communautés adventices : Approche par modélisation statistique
2011
To develop solutions for a productive and sustainable agriculture, principles, theories, andmethods of ecology may contribute to understand the biological processes governing the agroecosystem.The present case study was based on data collected by a network of observatories of weeds covering the whole of France (‘Biovigilance Flore’) and aimed at establishing forrules governing the assemblage and dynamics of weed communities in fields grown with annual crops. We particularly studied the possible relationships between species within acommunity, as well as the relationships between communities and their environment. Analyses were based on species abundances to take account of their effect on c…
Quantification of nitrogen fluxes and explanatory plant traits during a two year legume-cereal rotation
2018
National audience; A better understanding of how plant growth, N nutrition and symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF) are influenced by soil inorganic N availability, for a wide range of legume species, is crucial to optimise legume productivity, N2 fixation, while limiting environmental risks such as N leaching. A comparative analysis was performed for ten legume crops, grown in a field experiment and supplied with four levels of N fertiliser. Dry matter, N concentration and SNF were measured. Parallely, root traits were studied in a greenhouse experiment. For most species, inorganic N inputs had little effect on plant growth and N nutrition. SNF was negatively affected by soil inorganic N avai…
Voies de progrès génétique pour les légumineuses en Europe et en Afrique du Nord
2018
National audience; Comme source de protéines, tant pour l’alimentation humaine qu’animale, les variétés de légumineuses àgraines et fourragères qui ont la capacité d’utiliser la ressource azotée de l’air, constituent des leviersimportants pour la construction d’une agriculture durable. Que ce soit en Europe ou en Afrique du Nord, uneforte demande variétale se développe pour les légumineuses, afin de répondre au besoin d’une diversitéd’espèces et de systèmes de culture pourvoyeurs de services alimentaires, environnementaux etécologiques. Un progrès génétique a été fait au courant des dernières décennies mais reste limité à cause deverrous biotechniques, financiers et parfois organisationnels…
Optimiser et stabiliser la composition protéique des graines de légumineuses
2018
International audience
How does shear zone nucleate? An example from the Suretta nappe (Swiss Eastern Alps)
2016
In order to address the question of the processes involved during shear zone nucleation, we present a petro-structural analysis of millimetre-scale shear zones within the Roffna rhyolite (Suretta nappe, Eastern central Alps). Field and microscopic evidences show that ductile deformation is localized along discrete fractures that represent the initial stage of shear zone nucleation. During incipient brittle deformation, a syn-kinematic metamorphic assemblage of white mica + biotite + epidote + quartz precipitated at ca. 8.5 ± 1 kbar and 480 ± 50 °C that represent the metamorphic peak conditions of the nappe stacking in the continental accretionary wedge during Tertiary Alpine subduction. The…
Origin and diversity of testate amoebae shell composition: Example of Bullinularia indica living in Sphagnum capillifolium
2017
Testate amoebae are free-living shelled protists that build a wide range of shells with various sizes, shapes, and compositions. Recent studies showed that xenosomic testate amoebae shells could be indicators of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) deposition. However, no study has yet been conducted to assess the intra-specific mineral, organic, and biologic grain diversity of a single xenosomic species in a natural undisturbed environment. This study aims at providing new information about grain selection to develop the potential use of xenosomic testate amoebae shells as bioindicators of the multiple-origin mineral/organic diversity of their proximal environment. To fulfil these objective…
Comparaison de la multifonctionnalité relative aux flux azotés induits par dix cultures de légumineuses
2019
National audience; Les légumineuses sont à l’origine de fonctions uniques et/ou complémentaires à celles d’autres groupes d’espèces (céréales, oléagineux) sur les-quelles reposent des services écosystémiques rela-tifs à l’azote. Pourtant, le choix des légumineuses à graines selon leur aptitude à fournir ces services écosystémiques reste difficile compte tenu du manque de références sur une diversité d’espèces. Au cours d’une succession culturale de deux ans (lé-gumineuse –blé), cinq flux azotés et plusieurs traits de plantes considérés comme explicatifs de ces flux azotés ont été mesurés, afin de dresser le profil fonctionnel de dix espèces de légumineuses à graines. Il s’agissait de compre…
Caracterisation for ancient wheat varieties for their ability to form mycorrhiza and grain quality impact
2014
Wheat (kind Tritucum aestivum, Poaceae family) is a very important cereal ofagronomic interest. Some very ancient varieties are set aside for recent varieties often selected to meet a consumer intensive cultivation of pesticides. Organic farming production system assuming a reduction of synthetic chemical inputs in order to preserve the ecosystem can be defined as a practice where the use of synthetic fertilizers, chemical pesticides and genetically modified organisms is prohibited. This practice is gaining more and more popularity and the amount of land cultivated in this way has increased by 60% between 2000 and 2004. Constraints associated with the production of organic grains include lo…
Dependence of seed nitrogen concentration on plant nitrogen availability during the seed filling in pea
1999
Abstract The final seed nitrogen (N) concentration of the pea ( Pisum sativum L.) varies greatly with environment. These variations seem to be related to N availability in the plant. To understand such an effect, the pattern of seed N concentration during seed filling was analysed at a given node as the ratio of seed N accumulation rate and seed dry matter accumulation rate. Three experiments were conducted in the field and glasshouse. Pea genotypes ‘Solara’, ‘Frisson’ and its non-nodulating mutant ‘P2’ were grown and different treatments were applied to manipulate N availability during seed filling. Treatments included N supply (addition of N fertiliser), depodding (removal of pods) and de…
Le rôle écologique des bonobos : service écologique de dispersion de graine en forêt du Congo
2012
Bonobos (Pan paniscus) are threatened with extinction. They are the largest primates, and the only apes (except human), of the southern bank of the Congo Basin. Along with chimpanzees, they are our closest living relatives and are studied by anthropologists to include/understand our hominid origins; but what about their functional role in the forest? Would their disappearance have serious consequences for forest ecology? Answering this question is the aim of this new project, with several years of observations of a free-ranging habituated group of bonobos on the LuiKotale research station (DR Congo). In this tropical rainforest, the very great majority of plants need animals to reproduce an…