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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 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.

The MicroWean project focuses on the microbial colonisation of mucosal surfaces during the early days of life, a process that is essential to neonatal development.

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.