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27 April 2026

By: Caroline Chavinier

Welcome to Caroline Chavinier

Caroline Chavinier joined the INRAE Sol&Tox team at the EcoSys unit on December 1st, 2025, as a PhD student. She is supervised by Valérie Pot (EcoSys) and Julien Tournebise (Hycar).

Shehyar Iqbal defended his PhD entitled « Nitrogen economy towards ecosystem services: plant key traits and QTL detection in Miscanthus sinensis » on March 10 at the INRAE site of Estrées-Mons. His PhD was funded jointly by the region Hauts-de-France and INRAE on one side, and the French Environment and Management Agency (ADEME) in the context of the MisTigation project on the other.

The main objective is to identify genotypes that absorb large amounts of nitrogen, helping to remove excess nitrate from the soil and thus contribute to the ecosystem service of water regulation in areas near water catchment zones, preserving the quality of drinking water supplied to local population. Another potential ecosystem service, classified as supporting, involves identifying genotypes that can recycle nitrogen efficiently or exhibit variable nitrogen uptake capacities.

Antoine André, PhD student in agronomy at INRAE – In front of the PhD trial in the Ecotron of Gembloux

Antoine’s experiment was recently featured on the Belgian TV channel RTBF. The program included a lively 3-mn report dedicated to the Ecotron of Gembloux, where Antoine and Marion tackled one fascinating question: How will plants grow 100 years from now?

Project funded by the “Générique 2023” call for projects from the French National Research Agency

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