Joint International Laboratory on adaptation of plants and associated microorganisms to environmental stresses

The LMI LAPSE launched its call for projects 2014 . The call provides support for 1) training , 2) congress attendance (young researchers will be prioritized) and 3) research projects on ecosystem rehabilitation or crop adaptation to abiotic stresses in West Africa. Projects involving different ...

Objectives Pearl millet is a major crop contributing to food security for poor farmers in arid regions of the world. Despite its importance, pearl millet is an orphan crop that received very little support from science, industry and politics. As a result, it lags behind the other major grains in ...

2014Communications in Congresses Sixtine Passot, Jonathan Atkinson, Beatriz Moreno Ortega, Daniel Moukouanga, Mikael Lucas, Soazig Guyomarc’h, Ndjido Kane, C Tom Hash, Malcolm Bennett, Bertrand Muller, Craig Sturrock, Darren Wells, Yves Vigouroux, Yann Guédon, and Laurent Laplaze. Phenotyping root ...

ICRISAT is a non-profit organization that helps empower poor people in the rural drylands of Africa and Asia to overcome poverty, hunger and malnutrition, through making agriculture profitable and sustainable.  We achieve this through scientific advancements and working in partnership with a ...

 A Research Topic entitled "Harvesting plant and microbial biodiversity for sustainably enhanced food security” will be published by Frontiers in Plant Science, section Crop Science and Horticulture, and edited by Khaled Masmoudi, Francesca Sparvoli, Charles Thomas Hash and Laurent ...

The Master in Biology from ENS Lyon (France) is recruiting international students and offering scholarships for the best candidates. It is a high-level academic program that broadly covers life sciences, with a special emphasis on research. Depending on their record, students may be enrolled in the ...

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Researchers from LAPSE (LCM & CERAAS) in collaboration with colleagues from France and the UK, recently reported the characterization of early root development in pearl millet using different root phenotyping approaches that include rhizotrons and microcomputed tomography (microCT, see ...

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Babacar Thioye, PhD student at LCM/LAPSE will attend the "E coSummit 2016 : Ecological Sustainability - Engineering Change " meeting organized in Montpellier (France) from August 29th to September 1st é016.IHe will present a poster on his work entitled " Analysis of persistence ...

© IRD/Mikael Lucas CID2017 The Sustainable Intensification Conference 2017: Biodiversity and ecological engineering for sustainable intensification of agriculture will be held in Dakar (Senegal) from April 24th to April  26th 2017.This conference is jointly organized by the international ...

The joint international laboratory LAPSE is 5-years old.We made an assessment of our research and training activities. It can be downloaded here (french version)....

11 young breeders from Senegal, Benin and France attended a 3-days training workshop on root phenotyping at CERAAS (Thies, Senegal). It included a practical at the CNRA research station (Bambey).Training was provided by A. Audebert (Cirad), JL Chopart (AGER Consult), A. Grondin (IRD), L. Laplaze ...

2018 Bakhoum N., Fall D., Fall F., Diouf F., Hirsch A.M., D. Balachandar D., Diouf D. 2018.Senegalia senegal(synonym:Acacia senegal), its importance to sub-Saharan Africa, and its relationship with a wide range of symbiotic soil microorganisms. South African Journal of Botany  119: ...