W. Beaucardet. Île-de-France - Versailles-Grignon Centre

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1 W. Beaucardet Île-de-France - Versailles-Grignon Centre January 08

2 "At the heart of a unique scientific and university community, the INRA Île-de-France - Versailles-Grignon Research Centre carries out multidisciplinary and mission-oriented research focused on the major challenges of tomorrow: the sustainable management of crops and resources, food for the planet and preservation of the environment..." Camille Michon President of the Île-de-France - Versailles-Grignon Centre THE ÎLE-DE-FRANCE - VERSAILLES-GRIGNON RESEARCH CENTRE The Centre s mission is to generate knowledge while contributing to technological innovation and social progress. By hosting more than 0 doctoral students of 65 different nationalities, it is making a major investment in the training of young people through and in research. The Centre covers a broad range of specialities: plant sciences, environmental sciences (agronomy, ecology, and ecotoxicology), food sciences and social sciences. Its work requires efforts by single or multiple disciplines, depending on the issues addressed, the approaches adopted and the study objects concerned. These may involve all levels of organisation (e.g. from the plant genome to the ecosystem fashioned by humans, or from the consumer to preventive policies with respect to dietary health). The Centre benefits from considerable experimental resources and a network of platforms which offer access to different scales, from the gene to the landscape. These exceptional facilities are widely accessible to those involved in research in the Île de France region. "A centre of excellence for plant sciences and agroecology, and an essential player within the Paris-Saclay University" SCIENCE FOCUS The Centre s core skills focus on major multidisciplinary clusters benefiting from a high level of national and European visibility: plant integrative biology and life science engineering; agroecology in different territories and its interactions with biodiversity and the environment; economic and sociological insights into agricultural, food and environmental issues; food engineering. A very great majority of units in the Centre are managed in partnership with other important research establishments, universities and specialised schools, the principal partner being the institute for life and environmental sciences and industries, AgroParisTech. These units strive to achieve an international reputation, particularly through their participation in European and international calls for projects. Because of all its advantages, the Centre is a central player in life sciences at the Paris-Saclay University. In the social sciences field, it collaborates closely with several reputed establishments in the Paris region: the Paris School of Economics and the Île-de-France Research- Innovation-Society Institute affiliated to Université Paris Est. REGIONAL VISION Three-quarters of Île-de-France is used for agriculture and forestry. INRA therefore works closely with the Île-de-France Regional Council and central government, through the DRIAAF (regional agency for food, agriculture and forests) to support the implementation of their strategic priorities. Research teams from the INRA Île-de-France - Versailles-Grignon work actively in a number of these strategic priorities: local integration and supply chains, agroecology and climate change, reducing pesticide use, quality foods for all, urban agriculture, support for different sectors in the food industry. They also implement projects in areas of particular interest defined by the Regional Council, notably with respect to territorial ecology, food and science-society relationships. Major partners in the region PRÉFET DE LA RÉGION

3 Our research priorities A major plant biology cluster federating all skills in plant sciences, from genetics to biotechnologies and bioresources. INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY, BIOTECHNOLOGIES AND BIORESOURCES AGROECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF CROP PRODUCTION ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD JOUY-EN-JOSAS ANIMAL - DIVERSITY - ADAPTATION MICROBES - MICROBIAL ECOLOGY - HEALTH MATHEMATICS - INFORMATICS - PREDICTIVE BIOLOGY The upstream scientific objective is to utilise advances in molecular biology and sequencing techniques to explore the immense and complex intimacy of plant organisms. Multidisciplinary research focused on the integrated study of genomes enables a global approach to biological processes as a function of different objectives: resistance to drought and different pathogens, grain quality, etc. The exploitation of biomass for chemistry and energy is motivated downstream by the need to develop new sectors based on renewable carbon resources that can replace fossil fuels. FOOD, NUTRITION AND HEALTH RESEARCH PRIORITY SHARED BY BOTH ÎLE-DE-FRANCE RESEARCH CENTRES INRA in Île-de-France INRA focuses 5% of its resources on meeting three major challenges: understanding and predicting how living systems - animals, plants and micro-organisms - function at different scales and in varied and changing contexts; agroecology and the sustainability of agricultural and livestock systems in different regions and in a context of climate change food and nutrition, from the development of a food product to its organoleptic properties and the effects of its consumption on health and nutrition. More than 000 people address these challenges at the Île-de-France - Versailles-Grignon and Île-de-France - Jouy-en- Josas Research Centres, with the support of the President of the Ile-de-France - Versailles-Grignon Centre in accompanying the Paris-Saclay project and of the President of the Île-de-France - Jouy-en-Josas Centre in coordinating institutional relations with INRA s partners. The importance of these challenges supports INRA s commitment to developing wide-ranging collaborations from local to international level, with strong focus on developing the European Research Area. INRA contributes as: a founder member of the Paris-Saclay University. The aim is to improve scientific foundations in predictive biology and biotechnologies by interacting with a wide range of partners, while reinforcing the knowledge and innovation systems for agriculture, food and the environment through a special partnership with AgroParisTech. leads the Île-de-France region on several key thematic issues, including its involvement in the "Agriscience, regional ecology and food" major research domain (DIM programme and the Île-de- France programme for regional development). INRA also provides assistance to Île-de-France on a number of portfolios such as organic farming, greening the economy, agri-food industries and the Ministry of Agriculture s rural development plan. a key stakeholder in the European Research Area. INRA in Île-de- France is involved in 5 projects, 5% of which it coordinates. It also works in a number of fields supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) such as climate change and foodhealth interactions. Orsay University campus. L. Ardhuin, Université Paris-Sud Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin (IJPB) Quantitative Genetics and Evolution - le Moulon (GQEM) Institute for Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS) Genomics - Informatics Research Unit (URGI) Service Unit Study of Plant Genome Polymorphisms (EPGV) Academic partners AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Évry-Val d Essonne, Université Paris-Sud PARIS-SACLAY UNIVERSITY An internationally focused research university that brings together ten grandes écoles, two universities and seven research establishments and thus 5,000 postgraduate students with exceptional potential in the life sciences, where INRA and AgroParisTech are home to % of the students. Greenhouse. B. Nicolas, INRA

4 C. Slagmulder, INRA An important community of agronomists and ecologists developing original approaches to the sustainable management of plant production. In a context of accelerating reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy, limited resources and climate change, researchers are looking at new agricultural production systems that can preserve the environment and landscapes and ensure the good quality of agricultural products. They are trying to better understand the interactions between the services which result from the functioning of agro-ecosystems and their physical and biotic environment, in this markedly constrained context. By considering such relationships from the plot to the territorial scale, they are designing methods for the management of agricultural land that are both efficient and sustainable. Researchers in economic and social sciences are trying to better understand the organisational and functional modes of the world of agriculture and food. Activities in the fields of agriculture and food concern the production, processing, distribution and consumption sectors. They also contribute to the dynamics of regions and centres of employment and habitation. For research teams, study of these arrangements, and analysis of the decisions made by different actors, are essential to better understanding current challenges with respect to economic, social and environmental performance. Researchers also participate in evaluating public policies and focus in particular on science-society relationships. For more information on our current projects and research Agronomy Biology and Risk Management in Agriculture (BIOGER) Functional Ecology and Ecotoxicology of Agro-ecosystems (ECOSYS) Public Economics (ECO-PUB) Paris Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences (IEES PARIS) Applied Mathematics and Informatics (MIA) Science for Action and Sustainable Development: Activities, Products, Territories (SAD-APT) Ecological Impact of Innovations in Plant Production (ECO-INNOV) Experimental Unit Versailles-Grignon Experimental Farm (GCVG) Academic partners AgroParisTech, CNRS, IRD, ENS, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris-Diderot Science for Action and Sustainable Development: Activities, Products, Territories (SAD-APT) Public Economics (ECO-PUB) Paris-Jourdan Economic Sciences (PSE) Cross-Disciplinary Laboratory for Science, Innovation and Societies (LISIS) Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences (IRISSO) Maurice Halbwachs Centre (CMH) Nutrition and Social Sciences (ALISS) Academic partners AgroParisTech, CNRS, École des Ponts ParisTech, EHESS, ENS, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, Université Paris-Dauphine B. Nicolas, INRA Teams in the Centre study different food development processes, including the effects of consumption on human health. Food systems cover the entire food chain, from the production of raw materials to their transformation, distribution and consumption. In concert with the microbiological and epidemiological approaches developed in Jouy-en-Josas, the Versailles- Grignon Research Centre focuses on the purposive design of foods and innovative food processes. The association of skills in economics and sociology contributes to public health challenges regarding a healthy and sustainable diet. Food Process Engineering and Microbiology (GMPA) Nutrition and Social Sciences (ALISS) Academic partner AgroParisTech

5 PARTNERSHIPS, VALORISATION AND INNOVATION INRA is involved in a range of partnerships across Île-de-France. They are structured in a wide variety of ways and work towards a range of goals. With the farming world, and notably with technical institutes Partnership teams are driving forces in seven units and joint technology networks, covering the fields of plant production and the transformation of bioresources. With small and medium-sized firms and industries Teams participate in the dynamics of several competitiveness clusters - Industry and Agro-Resources (IAR); Vitagora, Valorial and Céréales Vallée - involved in the transformation of food products. With industry, through public-private partnerships in clearly-defined fields Researchers from the Centre are highly active in three strategic Scientific Interest Groups focused on the competitiveness of plant sectors: Green Biotechnologies, Arable Crops with High Economic and Environmental Performance and the Revival of Agronomy. They are also involved in three Carnot Institutes: BCAR for biobased materials from renewable carbon, Qualiment for food quality and PlantPro for plant production. In 0, INRA Versailles-Grignon counted 0 different partners, mainly in France and Europe. With professionals in industrial pilot projects Units from our Centre are participating in the Futurol project, which aims to design a prototype that can produce second-generation biofuels using agro-resources. Support to public policy Numerous research scientists are members of different committees managed by the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, ANSES (French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety), INERIS (National Institute for Industrial Safety and Environmental Protection) or INPES (National Institute for Prevention and Health Education), or are involved in the monitoring of national and European policies or programmes: Common Agricultural Policy, National Nutrition and Health Programme, Soil Environmental Functions and Heritage Management, the EcoPhyto08 plan, etc. Major player in the French Stimulus Initiative programme An active member of the Paris-Saclay Initiative of Excellence Coordinator of the SPS Laboratory of Excellence (LABEX), a partner in the SITES, BASC and OSE Laboratories of Excellence (LABEX). Member of two Convergence Institutes: the CLAND Institute on Climate Change and Land Use and the DATAIA Institute for Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Society Co-coordinator of two graduate research schools: Paris-Saclay Plant Sciences (SPS-GSR) and Paris School of Economics (PGSE) Coordinator of three major Biotechnologies and Bioresources projects: Amaizing, BFF and Pherotaxis, and a partner in ten others. Coordinator of the national infrastructure France-Génomique, and a partner in four others. OUR RESOURCES Experimental plots. B. Nicolas, INRA In the areas of arable crops and other plants, experiments in confined environments or in the field are central to the scientific approaches adopted. The Centre thus benefits from highperformance tools in terms of greenhouses and culture chambers. An area of more than 60 ha offers facilities for numerous trials, some of them of heritage importance. For example, since 99 the -plot trial has provided opportunities to evaluate the effects of different types of fertilisers and soil improvers on silty loam soils. Because of the growing importance of model species to plant sciences, access to plant collections is crucial for the scientific community. Two internationally accessible resource centres are thus devoted to two such species, Arabidopsis thaliana and Brachypodium distachyon. Finally, the Centre benefits from a network of platforms offering considerable analytical potential in microscopy, biochemistry, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, imaging and bioinformatics. Open to scientific and industrial partners, these facilities contribute to enhancing valorisation activities in numerous fields of biology and chemistry. A partner in two Equipment of Excellence projects: Morphoscope for the imaging and multi-scale reconstruction of morphogenesis, and Critex focused on national equipment resources for the spatial and temporal study of critical zones in watersheds. A partner in the Toulouse White Biotechnology (TWB) industrial biotechnology catalyst A partner in the Picardy Plant Innovations, Teaching and Technological Research Institute of Excellence (PIVERT). Miscanthus. C. Maître, INRA Focus on Biomass for the future, BFF Towards competitive and environmentally-friendly lignocellulosic biomass production An award-winning project under the French Investments for the Future Programme, BFF (0-00) aims to develop new and improved varieties and cropping systems for miscanthus and sorghum that can produce high yields of lignocelluosic biomass. These varieties and systems have a low environmental impact and their composition is adapted for use in different industrial applications and second-generation biofuels. BFF proposes innovative multidisciplinary approaches which combine modelling and systems biology for the design of optimum plant architecture. This work will contribute to the exploitation of "marginal" agricultural land and the development of a new, local green economy, by involving all stakeholders in a dedicated region.

6 INRA: AN OVERVIEW INRA is the largest agricultural research institute in Europe, with 8,7 researchers, engineers, and technicians, and is the secondlargest producer of agricultural science publications. INRA contributes to development of knowledge and innovation in the fields of food, agriculture, and the environment. INRA carries out its work across scientific divisions through a research network that is unique in Europe, with more than 00 research units and 50 experimental units located in 7 research centres throughout France. Its aim is to contribute internationally to the development of healthy, high-quality food, competitive and sustainable agriculture, and a protected and valued environment. ÎLE-DE-FRANCE - VERSAILLES-GRIGNON CENTRE: KEY FIGURES The teams 0 units, including joint units and experimental unit 768 staff members including 56% of women 9 contract staff members including 5% of women Resources 86 M in financing; 6.8 M of which are self-generated 0 platforms and technical facilities, experimental facility, 60 ha of experimental fields,,000 m of greenhouses, and 00 m of climate-controlled chambers Results partnership agreements, including 9 with the European Union 6 patents and 68 licenses 5 publications per year in peer-reviewed journals MAP OF ÎLE-DE-FRANCE - VERSAILLES-GRIGNON CENTRE FACILITIES Île-de-France - Versailles-Grignon Centre THIVERVAL-GRIGNON YVELINES 78 VERSAILLES GIF-SUR-YVETTE ESSONNE 9 7 MARNE-LA-VALLÉE PARIS 6 VAL-DE-MARNE 5 9 IVRY-SUR-SEINE ÉVRY SEINE-ET-MARNE 77 List of sites Versailles Thiverval-Grignon Évry Gif-sur-Yvette Ivry-sur-Seine Marne-la-Vallée Paris Île-de-France - Versailles-Grignon Research Centre Route de Saint-Cyr - RD 0 F-7806 Versailles Cedex Phone: (0) contact-comm@versailles.inra.fr