ARVALIS - Institut du végétal, France

ARVALIS - Institut du végétal is a French technical institute in charge of applied research on cereals, potatoes, flax, tobacco and forage crops. It is run and financed by farmers. It aims at developing and providing tools, techniques and services to farmers, agricultural organizations and companies in order to produce more and better in the context of an evolving European and international rule-based environment and economics. Operating from the field scale to post-harvest stages and first processes, ARVALIS works closely with breeders and input firms, as well as feed, food and non-food industries. As an applied research institute, it interfaces with French and international basic research infrastructures such as INRAE, IRSTEA, and universities (collaborating through various research projects), and the development organisms such as Chambers of Agriculture and economic operators.

Role in the project

ARVALIS is

contributing to work package 1 by involving its Crop Simulation Model (CHN) to explore the probability of occurrence the stress scenarios and design the Data Management Plan.
acting as co-leader of work package 2 to better understand crop and microbiome responses to combined water and nutrient limitations
responsible for evaluation work on innovative genotypes in its research stations and participates in genomic modelling work.
contributing to work package 3 by carrying out trials on bread and durum wheat aimed to assess microbial inoculants and fertilizer additives and real-time remote sensing and models incorporating genotype-dependent information. ARVALIS contributes to enabling technology results it has co-acquired with INRAE during the breed/wheat project on tolerance of wheat to both nitrogen and drought as individual stresses.
contributing to work package 5 by providing and managing an on-farm network based on conventional durum wheat production under Mediterranean climate in order to test and evaluate novel genotypes and agroecosystem management innovations in field conditions.

Key persons involved

Jean-Pierre Cohan, Co-leader work package 2
Stéphane Jezequel
Mathieu Marguerie
Grégory Vericel
Florence Leprince
Maxime Salin-Maradeix
Katia Beauchêne
Delphine Hourcade
François Taulemesse