In policies targeting environmental and health hazards, an effort is frequently made to anticipate and avert more or less probable adverse events. In this context, computerized models are frequently portrayed as superior knowledge tools, for their capacity to extrapolate from existing data and predict hazards. This paper looks at the historical dev...
In plants, RNA interference (RNAi) generates small interfering (si)RNAs from entire genomes of viruses, satellites and viroids. Therefore, deep small (s)RNA sequencing is a universal approach for virome reconstruction and RNAi characterization. We tested this approach on dried barley leaves from field surveys. Illumina sequencing of sRNAs from 2 pl...
Spray drying is a well-established process, but the phenomena ruling droplet-to-particle transition remain black box, resulting in variable powder properties and drying performances. Therefore, understanding precisely how the particle is formed and how to control its properties remain a major challenge. This work aims to breakdown the complexity of...
La filière laitière occupe une place importante à l’échelle mondiale, en termes de contribution à l’occupation des surfaces agricoles, aux emplois et à la création de richesse. La production laitière, qui résulte de modèles productifs très variés d’un pays à l’autre et qui relève d’espèces animales aux caractéristiques différentes, a considérableme...
Torrefaction is a promising process to upgrade biomass and produce solid biofuel. The purpose of this study is to predict the higher heating values (HHVs) of biomass and energy yield during torrefaction. A two-step model and a direct method are adopted to obtain the torrefaction kinetics and the prediction of elemental composition in the present st...
Aims: Climate change imposes increasingly warm and dry conditions in most winegrowing regions. Mediterranean vineyards are particularly vulnerable and have registered, in most situations, declining yields over the past years. Although a majority of Mediterranean vineyards are still dry-farmed, yields can be increased by the implementation of irriga...
