INRA's research in industrial biotechnology: For food, chemicals, materials and fuels

- Research trends at INRA in food and non-food biotechnologies are presented.
- Grasping fermentation dynamics is crucial to design food with improved functions.
- Enzyme, microorganism and microbial consortia are central to non-food biotechnology.
- Bioprocess engineering development is critical for efficient lab to market transfer.
- Synthetic biology is emerging as an important sub-area of industrial biotechnology.