
Members' Directory

Last name :
ELMERICH
First name :
Chloé
Entrance year :
2026
Occupation :
Sunflower Breeder
Birthdate :
1995/02/18
Address :
6 chemin de Panedautes, 31700 Mondonville / France
Main fields of interest :
- Seeds, genetics
- Crop protection
- Agronomy
- Plant physiology
Professional experience : * SOLTIS | Mondonville, France | 2023 – to date
Sunflower Breeder - Program breeder lead
* Institut Polytechnique UniLaSalle | Beauvais, France | 2020 – 2023
Lidea Seeds | Mondonville, France
PhD in plant science: Integration of crop growth model in plant breeding – Identification of environmental and phenotypic factors involved in soybean adaptation to Northern Europe
* Sakata Vegetables Europe | Nîmes, France | 2019 (6 months)
M.Sc.: Assistant trial officer
* Chia Tai Ltd Co. | Bangkok et Kanchanaburi, Thailand | 2017 – 2018 (6 months)
M.Sc.: Metabolomic evaluation of chili, sweet corn and butternut hybrids for breeding and product characterisation
* World Vegetable Center | Hyderabad, India | 2017 (3 months)
M.Sc.: Blackgram screening for Macrophomina phaseolina (root pathogen) resistance
Education : * Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique (ENSAT) | Toulouse, France | 2015 – 2019
Master of Sciences: major in breeding and phytopathology
* Scientific Preparatory Class BCPST (Lycée Chaptal) | Paris, France | 2013 – 2015
Intensive program in Biology, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry
* Lycée Condorcet | Paris, France | 2010 – 2013
Scientific Baccalaureate, major in Biology
Selected publications : * Elmerich, C., Faucon, M-P., Garcia, M., Jeanson, P., Boulch, G.& Lange, B. (2023) Envirotyping to control genotype x environment interactions for efficient soybean breeding. Field Crop Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2023.109113
* Elmerich, C., Boulch, G., Faucon, M-P., Lakhal, L. & Lange, B. (2023) Identification of eco-climatic factors driving yields and genotype by environment interactions for yield in early maturity soybean using crop simulation. Agronomy. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13020322
* Elmerich, C., Pandey, A. K., Vemula, A., Rathore, A., & Nair, R. M. (2022). Blackgram-Macrophomina phaseolina Interactions and Identification of Novel Sources of Resistance. Plant Disease. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-11-21-2588-RE
* Boulch, G., Elmerich, C., Djemel, A., & Lange, B. (2021). Evaluation of soybean (Glycine max L.) adaptation to northern European regions under different agro-climatic scenarios. in silico Plants, 3(1), diab008. https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diab008
* Bicard, M., Faucon, M-P., Dockter C., Vequaud, D., Pin, P., Elmerich, C. & Lange B. (Submitted in 2024) Envirotyping to drive spring barley adaptation in northwestern Europe.








