Our team is called SYNAPS for Symbiotic Nitrogen Acquisition in Plant-microbe Systems.
We are interested in participating to the AGROECOLOGY CALL 1 and are therefore we are publishing our research interests and competences.

Here we aim to make us visible to the agroecology community, to meet parties and to constitute a synergical consortium.

Our team is interested by the beneficial effects mediated by arbuscular mycorrhizal fongi, rhizopheric bacteria and endophytic bacteria regarding cereal crop nitrogen nutrition in a context of agroecology transition with the goal to reduce the utilization of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers while maintaining cereal crop productivity.

We are able to perform green house as well as field trial. Our team possesses robust expertise, knowledge and tools to study plant-microbe interactions and plant nitrogen metabolism.

Our team consists of plant scientists, microbiologist and soon microbial ecologist.

Our team is part of the ‘Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin’ it is one of the largest Plant Science research centers in Europe and is renowned for its unique combination of experimental resources and pluridisciplinary expertise in biology, chemistry and mathematics. The IJPB is a joint research unit (UMR1318) under the authority of both INRAE and AgroParisTech, and is part of Paris-Saclay University. The IJPB is also a founding member of the EUR Saclay Plant Sciences (SPS).

Please visite our website at https://ijpb.versailles.inrae.fr/en/page/about-us
and our team website at https://ijpb.versailles.inrae.fr/en/research-teams/symbiotic-nitrogen-acquisition-in-plant-microbe-systems/presentation