Montpellier Scientific Community



Banana, plantain and pineapple cropping systems (SCBPA)

Director: Jean-Michel Risede Jean-michel.risede@cirad.fr
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Research area
The unit conducts research on the functioning of agro-systems in intensive tropical monocultures (banana and pineapple), with a view to conversion to more sustainable farming systems. The functioning of the agro-system is addressed from the perspective of the dynamics of the development of bio-aggressors, the operation of the plant and farming (environmental conditions and operation of the root system), and the measurement of environmental impacts (pesticide flows). The main "factors of ecological intensification" studied concern the increase in diversity in agro-systems (especially service and cover plants, and soil biodiversity) and its spatio-temporal organization (the spatial organization of the farming system to the scale of the plot). The unit's second mission concerns the design of innovative cropping systems and their validation. Banana is the unit's preferred study model. The unit also conducts research on plantain and pineapple models.

Research highlights
The unit's research activities are part of an innovation process, with research actions such as "knowledge creation", "knowledge integration" and "validation of results". In this context, the unit works in close partnership with the production sector, particularly in the West Indies ("sustainable banana" plan).

Staff profile
Research Org. Researchers Professors Research Eng.

Techn. & Admin Staff

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Most important international partnerships
Facts and figures
Publications in international ranking journals

2010 : 17

2005 - 2009: 68
Representative publications

1. Duyck P.F., Lavigne A., Vinatier F., Achard R., Okolle J.N., Tixier P., 2011. Addition of a new resource in agroecosystems: Do cover crops alter the trophic positions of generalist predators? Basic Appl. Ecol. 12 (1): 47-55.

2. Tabarant C., Villenave C., Risède J.M, Roger-Estrade J., Thuries L., Dorel M., 2011. Effects of four organic amendments on banana parasitic nematodes and soil nematode communities. Appl. Soil Ecol. 49: 59-67.

3. Vinatier F., Lescourret F., Duyck P.F., Martin O., Senoussi R., Tixier P., 2011. Should I Stay or should I Go? A Habitat-dependent dspersal kernel improves prediction of movement. PLoS One, 6 (7): e21115 (7p.)

4. Rieux A., Halkett F., de Lapeyre de Bellaire L., Zapater M.F., Rousset F., Ravigne V., Carlier J. 2011. Inferences on pathogenic fungus population structures from microsatellite data: an original landscape genetics approach reveals traces of historical events. Molecular Ecology, 20 (8): 1661-1674

5. Quénéhervé P., Barrière V., Salmon F., Houdin F., Achard R., Gertrude J.C., Marie-Luce S., Chabrier C., Duyck P.F., Tixier P., 2011. Effect of banana crop mixtures on the plant-feeding nematode community. Appl. Soil Ecol. 49:40-45

6. Soler A., Gaude J.M., Marie-Alphonsine P.A., Vinatier F., Dole B., Govindin JC., Fournier P., Quénéhervé P. 2011. Development and evaluation of a new method for sampling and monitoring the symphylid population in pineapple. Pest Management Science, 67:1169-1177

7. Vinatier F., Chailleux A., Duyck P.F., Salmon F. Lescourret F., Tixier P. 2010. Radio telemetry unravels movements of a walking insect species in heterogeneous environments. Animal Behaviour, 80: 221-229

8. Chabrier C., Tixier P., Duyck P.F, Carles C., Quénéhervé P. 2010. Factors influencing the survivorship of the burrowing nematode, Radopholus similis (Cobb.) Thorne in two types of soil from banana plantations in Martinique. Applied Soil Ecology Vol.44(2).-p. 116-123

9. Cabidoche Y.M., Achard R., Cattan P., Clermont Dauphin C., Massat F., Sansoulet J. 2009. Long-term pollution by chlordecone of tropical volcanic soils in the French West Indies: a simple leaching model accounts for current residue. Environmental pollution Vol.157.-p. 1697-1705

10. Cattan P., Ruy S., Cabidoche Y.M., Findeling A., Desbois P., Charlier J.B. 2009. Effect on runoff of rainfall redistribution by the impluvium-shaped canopy of banana cultivated on an Andosol with a high infiltration rate. Journal of hydrology Vol.368 (1-4): 251-261

11. Duyck P.F., Pavoine S., Tixier P., Chabrier C., Quénéhervé P. 2009. Host range as an axis of niche partitioning in the plant-feeding nematode community of banana agroecosystems. Soil biology and biochemistry Vol.41(6):1139-1145

12. Vinatier F., Tixier P., Le Page C., Duyck P.F., Lescourret F. 2009. COSMOS, a spatially explicit model to simulate the epidemiology of Cosmopolites sordidus in banana fields.Ecological Modelling, Vol.220(18): 2244-2254

13. Dorel M., Achard R., Tixier P. 2008. 2008. SIMBA-N: Modelling nitrogen dynamics in banana populations in wet tropical climate. Application to fertilization management in the Caribbean.European journal of agronomy Vol.29(1): 38-45

14. Tixier P., Malézieux E., Dorel M., Wery J. 2008. SIMBA, a model for designing sustainable banana-based cropping systems. Agricultural Systems Vol.97(3): 139-150.

15. Fouré E., Ganry J. 2008. A biological forecasting system to control Black Leaf Streak Disease of banana and plantains, Fruits 63(5): 311-317

16. Tixier P., Risède J.M., Dorel M., Malézieux E. 2006. Modelling population dynamics of banana plant-parasitic nematodes: A contribution to the design of sustainable cropping systems. Ecological Modelling Vol.198 (3): 321-331