LESCOURRET Françoise

French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France

• Françoise Lescourret is a research director in the Research Division “AgroEcoSystem” at INRAE. She is a modeler in agro-ecology, in the field of horticulture, with a goal to contribute to model-based design of ecological horticultural systems.
• Françoise worked mainly and jointly on the dynamics of fruit quality traits and on fruit-plant-pest-beneficial interactions, and on their control by cultural practices. She has collaborated on related topics such as growers’ practices and pest ecology. She is currently developing modelling work to study and manage multiple ecosystem services in agroecosystems.
• From 2010 to 2018, she was one of the four assistants for scientific management in the Research Division “Environment and Agronomy” and was responsible for the structuring challenge “Valorisation and management of biodiversity in agroecosystems”.
• From 2012 to 2018, Françoise is a member of the coordination unit of the INRA metaprogram on Ecosystem Services, and co-leader of the metaprogram in 2018-2019.
• Since 2016, she is president of the Strategic Committee of the Scientific Interest Group on Vegetable Crops (GIS PIClég).
• She is co-author of more than 110 peer-reviewed scientific papers.

Recent publications:

1. Laffon L, et al. Conservation Biological Control of Codling Moth (Cydia pomonella): Effects of Two Aromatic Plants, Basil (Ocimum basilicum) and French Marigolds (Tagetes patula). Insects. 2022;13(10):908.  
2. Génard M, et al. Resource Translocation Modelling Highlights Density-Dependence Effects in Fruit Production at Various Levels of Organisation. Front Plant Sci. 2022 Jul 8;13:931297.  
3. Gascuel-Odoux C, et al. A research agenda for scaling up agroecology in European countries. Agron Sustain Dev. 2022;42(3):53. 
4. Casagrande E, et al. Brown Rot Disease in Stored Nectarines: Modeling the Combined Effects of Preharvest and Storage Conditions. Phytopathology. 2022;112(7):1575-1583. 
5. Bevacqua D, et al. A parsimonious mechanistic model of reproductive and vegetative growth in fruit trees predicts consequences of fruit thinning and branch pruning. Tree Physiol. 2021;41(10):1794-1807.