News of the project

News of the project

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During 9th and 10th January 2017, Wheatamix members will meet together for the last annual meeting in Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
The annual seminar DEPHY Field crops & Polycropping meet together engineers and project leaders during two days of presentations and farm visits, on 8th and 9th June 2016.
A meeting will take place on 18th september at Gif sur Yvette to close the 2014-2015 season of field trials conducted with agricultural advisers and farmers.
... to characterize the springtail communities (WP2)
With many participants and despite the challenging climatic conditions, the soil macrofauna on the Versailles site experiment has been sampled in 5 days! (WP2)
A workshop with farmers and agricultural advisers in the Eure department (North-Western France) was organized on 9th February at Guichainville (7 farmers 3 agricultural advisers).
Summarizing data collected by the different teams, to choose 16 varieties (among the 60 varieties panel) for blends in field experiments (WP1-2)
A first campaign to measure the aphid predation rate on the experimental site of Versailles, to assess the interest of varietal diversity for biological pest control (WP2)
Two workshops to determine the major rules for variety assocation. These rules will allow designing blends which are adaptated to each production context (WP3)
A first soil sampling campaign on the experimental site of Versailles, to study nitrogen activity of the 60 panel varieties and soil microbial communities (WP2)

Modification date : 04 July 2023 | Publication date : 23 September 2014 | Redactor : Wheatamix