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The EggToMeat project aims at identifying the impact of farming parameters on the flux of microbiota along the chicken production chain, from eggs to carcasses. For that purpose, two housing conditions (indoors vs outdoor range) will be compared on a single batch of embryonated eggs.

The TANDEM project aims to better understand how micro-organisms in the dairy food chain respond to the changes associated with agroecological transition.

The HoloGrain initiative mobilises several INRAE teams whose work targets a particular stage in the production chain (pre- or post-harvest) or a specific issue. This network will make it possible to integrate the various stages and to follow a wheat grain holobiont throughout the agri-food chain.

The MOTHERS project concerns the control of the gut microbiota in chickens. It aims to inoculate a previously selected microbiota, free of pathogens, to allow the installation of an intestinal microbiota with beneficial effects on the immune response, a barrier effect against salmonella and the improvement of the zootechnical performance of poultry.

The MOMIE project concerns the study of the influence of a fermented diet on the microbiota of the mouth and on taste perception. The model used is the rat, but the aim is to extrapolate this work to the human holobiont.

The INT-BXL project deals with the bioremediation of polluted river sediments and agricultural soils. In agroecosystems, the contamination of soils by xenobiotic compounds, such as pesticides used in conventional agriculture and antibiotics used to treat livestock or supplied via organic soil fertilisation, can lead to the transfer of these compounds, and/or their degradation intermediaries, towards surface and ground water, thus contaminating all water resources.