Modelling

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• Combining opto-physical modelling of plant structures and chemometrics tools for robust calibration of hyperspectral field images; Application to plant phenotyping
  29 April 2022

  Short range hyperspectral imagery is a promising tool for phenotyping and vegetation survey. When associated with partial least square regression (PLS-R), it allows high spatial resolution mapping of the plant chemical content at the canopy scale.
  However, several optical phenomena have to be taken into account when applying this approach to vegetation scenes in natural conditions. For instance, additive and multiplicative factors due respectively to specular reflection and leaf inclination (...)

• A three-country network for agri-food chain modeling applied to durum wheat
  29 April 2022

  Analyzing and handling agri-food chains for sustainability purposes can hardly be driven by an experimental approach exclusively. Increasing attention is paid to predictive, modeling approaches that allow simulation on the basis of current knowledge, with the perspective of future societal challenges. Moreover, such approaches need to be interdisciplinary, so as to deal with various multi-criteria concerns such as food safety, adaptation to climate, environmental impact, economic (...)

• Dynamics of Soil Carbon Sequestration in Tropical and Temperate Agricultural ABSYSs
  29 April 2022

  Questioned on the 4/1000 initiative on soil carbon (C) sequestration to face climate change (CC), several Labex Agro units and their partners propose to pull together their research capacities in order to provide new insights in soil C sequestration. The DSCATT project proposes to explore the potential for sequestering C in cultivated soils, taking into account the sustainability of agricultural practices in the context of global changes. DSCATT operates at 4 sites (in Senegal, Zimbabwe, (...)

• Controlling the nutritional quality of germinating pulses
  29 April 2022

  Pulse consumption is recommended by the FAO as it constitute an alternative to animal proteins. Actually, they need few water and chemical inputs due to their ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen. Despite their qualities, pulses are still underused mainly because they need a long cooking time and because of their content in anti-nutritional factors that may degrade digestive comfort and absorption of minerals. To counterbalance these aspects, germination is gaining interest as this process (...)

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