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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank the numerous people who
kindly helped me in realizing this PhD thesis. In
particular, I am deeply indebted:
- to my supervisors Nicolas Munier-Jolain,
Rainer Waldhardt, and Jacques Caneill. Thank
you for your collaboration and confidence and
during the whole project, the fertile discussions
on research questions, methods and results, the
correction of the articles and the final thesis and
for finding compromises between the French and
the German systems…,
- to the members of the examination board,
Philippe Debaeke, Rainer Waldhardt, and Bernd
Honermeier for your reports on the thesis;
Francois Bretagnolle, Bärbel Gerowitt, and
Vincent Bretagnolle for participating in the PhD
defence (and the rehearsals for the videotransmission
system!),
- and to the participants of the ‘comité de
pilotage de thèse’, Safia Médiène, Gilles
Lemaire, Xavier Reboud and Nathalie Colbach
for your advice.
My thesis would not have been possible without
such good helpers in field and greenhouse
work, as well as the people who always kindly
answered my questions, assisted me in scientific
reasoning, data analysis, writing, and
bureaucracy…
In Dijon, I would like to thank the whole ‘weed
science research’ group (UMR BGA) as well as
the people from INRA-Epoisses, in particular
Florence Strbik, Denis Lapostolle, Pascal Farcy,
Philippe Chamois, Laurent Falcetto, François
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Dugué, Dominique Meunier, Emilie Cadet,
Hugues Busset, Alain Fleury, Gilles Louviot,
Delphine Ramillion and Sébastien for conducting
and helping with the field and greenhouse
experiments;
Christiane Dupaty, Séverine Siblot, Claudine
Chotel, Sandrine Geslain and Nathalie
Grandgirard for administration and network
support to the “BNI”;
Xavier Reboud, Beryl Laitung, Sandrine Petit,
Fabrice Dessaint, Bruno Chauvel, Jacques
Gasquez, François Bretagnolle, Marie-Hélène
Bernicot, Henri Darmency, and Christian Gauvrit
for interesting discussions and helpful advice in
various areas;
Charles Schneider for programming the routine
of the plant image analysis software; and Arnaud
Coffin for running (and constructing) the plant
‘conveyor system’;
Audrey Alignier, Frederic Henriot, Rémy
Bonnot, Lise Le Lagadec, and Cyril Naulin for
being patient with their co-supervisor ;-) ;
Boris Fumanal, Antoine Gardarin, Yann Tricault,
Yongbo Liu, Delphine Mézière and others for
successively sharing the office, watering the
plants and answering my numerous questions…;
and many other PhD students and post-docs
including Guillaume Fried, Aline Boursault,
Richard Gunton, Bertrand Jacquemin, Valentine
Péllissier, Benjamin Borgy, Solène Bellanger,
Stéphane Cordeau, Mélanie Le Guilloux,
Dominique Jacquin, Cécile Petit, Clément
Tschudy, Muhammed Anés, Yacine Merabtine,
who helped me in a way or another.