IJPB special guest at the King Kitchen Garden for the 2025 National Agriculture Days

The National Agriculture Days (JNAgri, Journées Nationales de l’Agriculture) aim to bring citizens closer to the actors of the agricultural world by opening the doors of farms, agri-food companies, research centers... and other essential links in the agricultural sector. The IJPB will take part in the 5th edition of JNAgri at theKing Kitchen Garden in Versailles (see program), with the science workshop “The Kitchen Garden under the Microscope.”

Come discover the plants of the King Kitchen Garden through the biologists’ microscope!
Scientists from the Observatoire du Végétal with its "Cytology/Imaging" platform PO-Cyto, along with other researchers from IJPB, will guide you in observing the plants and presenting the plant biology research they conduct at their Versailles laboratory. You will dive into the microscopic world with a selection of stunning large-format images captured using high-precision microscopes in the lab!

Plant sampling at the King Kitchen Garden by Katia Belcram, “Cytology/Imaging” team PO-Cyto








Transparency of collected plant samples to make them observable under high-precision microscopes






In connection with the research developed at the Institute Jean-Pierre Bourgin for Plant Sciences.