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MEMBERS

MEMBERS

Nicolas Blanchet
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Phone

+33 (0) 5 61 28 57 03

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Blanchet Nicolas

Function

Assistant Engineer

RESEARCH SUBJECTS

I am responsible for experiments aimed at studying sunflower responses to abiotic stresses under controlled conditions and on the HELIAPHEN high-throughput phenotyping platform. In addition, I have been the technical manager of this platform since its commissioning in 2013. Recently, I have also taken charge of POLLIPHEN, a fleet of deployable cameras used in various environments, including for measuring plant attractiveness to pollinators.

https://phenotoul.hub.inrae.fr/nous-connaitre/qui-sommes-nous/heliaphen

TRAINING

BTSA in Horticultural Production, followed by a
Professional Bachelor's degree in Agro-Environmental Expertise and Project Management

EDUCATION

I regularly host school and professional groups to present the HELIAPHEN platform and the experiments conducted there.

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

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Chabert Stan

Function

Postdoctoral researche

RESEARCH SUBJECTS

The HelEx project aims to use extremophile wild Helianthus species to develop new sunflower cultivars that are more tolerant to the effects of climate change, including high temperatures and drought, while maintaining production quality and biodiversity services.

My contribution to this project is twofold:

  • Studying the effects of temperature and water stress on the production of resources for flower-visiting insects: number of florets per head, quantity of nectar and pollen produced per floret, floret morphology;

  • Developing a model for automatically counting and identifying flower-visiting insects on images of sunflower heads taken during the day and night.

Key words

Apis mellifera, entomophilous crop pollination, flower biology, foraging behavior, nectar, pollen, sunflower, temperature, water stress

TRAINING

I completed my PhD (2014-2018) at INRAE of Avignon with Bernard Vaissière on the assessment of the pollination requirements of oilseed rape hybrid seed production. I also developed a fast method for assessing the size of honeybee colonies introduced for crop pollination. All with the aim of adjusting the supply of introduced colonies to the demand for crop pollination.

I continued my career with a first postdoctoral fellowship in the Pollen Network team at Syngenta (2019-2020, Lombez, France). There, I studied feeding honeybee colonies with protein pastes to decrease the pollen collection of colonies and thus increase the seed yields of sunflower. This method is applicable to all nectar-producing crops where anthers are isolated from the stigmas: hybrid seed productions, avocado, Amaryllidaceae, Apiaceae, Cucurbitaceae, etc. This was based on my Master's thesis (with Bernard Vaissière, INRAE Avignon), during which we demonstrated that supplementing colonies with pollen in the combs increased the pollinating activity of colonies, using the example of the melon crop (monoecious). During this experiment, I also studied the effects of colony distance and bee density on the yield of oilseed sunflower.

I then completed a second postdoctoral fellowship at University of Florida with Rachel Mallinger (2021-2023) to study the benefits of cross-pollination for blueberry cultivation. Cross-pollination especially increases the fruit size and yield of this crop. More generally, I was able to identify a list of 156 zoophilous crops for which cross-pollination improves the quantity and/or quality of fruits and seeds produced. I was also able to promote the concept of cultivar mixtures as a tool for adapting crops to the effects of climate change through the synergy occurring between genotypes via the beneficial effects of cross-pollination.

Two constants have punctuated my career: (i) studying the effect of temperature on floral biology, and (ii) the dynamics of floral nectar secretion. These are two areas of expertise that I am now using as part of the HelEx project for my third postdoctoral position (2024-…) in the ASTR team at LIPME with Nicolas Langlade.

CAREER

  • 2018 – PhD in Agricultural Sciences, University of Avignon, France

“Integrated crop pollination: integrating the temperature-related mechanisms to assess pollination supply and demand”

  • 2012 – Master's Degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Lyon, France

  • 2010 – Bachelor's Degree in Biology, University of Lyon, France

My publication list is available on my ResearchGate page

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Phone

+33 (0) 5 61 28 57 77

Key words

sunflower, plant phenotyping, plant-pollinator interactions, abiotic stress, molecular genetics, genomics

Creux Nicky

Function

Research Engineer

RESEARCH SUBJECTS

The team and I are focused on understanding sunflower’s floral response to abiotic stress and the impact on sunflower-pollinator interactions. Dissecting the sunflower genetics underpinning pollinator attractivity is essential to improving its role in maintaining pollinator diversity and the ecosystem services it provides. We employ various methods to explore this topic, which include plant phenotyping, molecular breeding and Artificial Intelligence (AI) based models. The goal is to tackle the research questions at various scales from the molecular level to the ecophysiological level to gain a holistic view of the system within which we work. This research provides us with tools required to develop pollinator-friendly, climate-smart sunflowers for the future.

TRAINING

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Davis, CA USA 2014-2018

Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria, South Africa 2018 - 2025

EDUCATION

BSc (Molecular Biology), University or Pretoria, South Africa 2002

BSc (Honours in Genetics), University of Pretoria, South Africa 2003

MSc (Genetics), University of of Pretoria, South Africa, 2007

PhD (Genetics) University of Pretoria, South Africa 2014

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

  • Mangani, R., Mazarura, J., Matlou, S., Marquart, A., Archer, E. and CREUX, N., 2025. The impact of past and current district-level climatic shifts on maize production and the implications for South African farmers. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 156(2), p.109.

  • D’Angelo D, Sorrentino R, Nkomo T, Zhou X, Vaghefi N, Sonnekus B, Bose T, Cerrato D, Cozzolino L, CREUX, N. and D’Agostino, N., 2025. IMA GENOME-F20 A draft genome assembly of Agroatheliarolfsii, Ceratobasidiumpapillatum, Pyrenopezizabrassicae, Neopestalotiopsismacadamiae, Sphaerellopsisfilum and genomic resources for Colletotrichumspaethianum and Colletotrichumfructicola. IMA fungus, 16, p.e141732.

  • Mapfumo P, Archer E, Swanevelder DZ, Wilken M, CREUX NM and Read D., 2025. Genomic Characterisation of Bidens mottle virus in South Africa and an Assessment of the Impact on Helianthus annuus (Sunflower) in an Open Field Setting. Plant Pathology 74: 1266-1276 

  • Mapfumo P, Buthelezi S, Wilkens M, Swanevelder D, Archer E and CREUX NM. 2024 Planting date and environmental effects on Sclerotinia head rot progression on sunflower. Plant Pathology 73 (5), 1112-1126

  • Mangani R, Gunn KM and CREUX NM, 2023. Projecting the effect of climate change on planting date and cultivar choice for South African dryland maize production. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 341, p.109695.

  • Catrice O, Holalu S, Terzić S, Todesco M, CREUX NM, Langlade NB. 2023 Progresses of the international community to understand sunflower–pollinator interactions through multiscale approaches. OCL 30 17, DOI: 10.1051/ocl/2023012

  • Marshall CM, Thompson VL, CREUX NM, Harmer SL. 2023. The circadian clock controls temporal and spatial patterns of floral development in sunflower. eLife, 12, p.e80984. 2

  • CREUX NM, Brown EA, Garner AG, Saeed S, Scher CL, Holalu SV, Yang D, Maloof JN, Blackman BK, Harmer SL. 2021. Flower orientation influences floral temperature, pollinator visits and plant fitness. New Phytologist 232: 868-879.

  • Atamian HS, CREUX NM, Brown EA, Garner AG, Blackman BK, Harmer SL. 2016. Circadian regulation of sunflower heliotropism, floral orientation, and pollinator visits. Science 353: 587- 590.

  • Spokevicius AV, Taylor L, Melder E, Van Beveran K, Tibbits J, CREUX NM, Bossinger G. 2016. The use of Induced Somatic Sector Analysis (ISSA) for studying genes and promoters involved in wood formation and secondary stem development. JoVE 116 doi: 10.3791/54553.

  • Hussey SG, Mizrachi E, CREUX NM, Myburg AA. 2013. Navigating the transcriptional roadmap regulating secondary cell wall deposition in plants. Frontiers in plant science 4:325.

  • CREUX NM, De Castro MH, Ranik M, Maleka MF, Myburg AA. 2013. Diversity and cis-element architecture of the promoter regions of cellulose synthase genes in Eucalyptus. Tree Genetics and Genomes 9: 989-1004.

  • CREUX NM, Bossinger G, Myburg AA, Spokevicius AV. 2013. Induced somatic sector analysis of cellulose synthase (CesA) promoter regions in woody stem tissues. Planta 237: 799 – 812.

  • CREUX NM, Ranik M, Berger DK, Myburg AA. 2008. Comparative analysis of orthologous cellulose synthase promoters from Arabidopsis, Populus and Eucalyptus: evidence of conserved regulatory elements in angiosperms. New Phytologist 179: 722 - 737.

  • Ranik M, CREUX NM, Myburg AA. 2006. Within-tree transcriptome profiling in wood-forming tissues of a fast growing Eucalyptus tree. Tree Physiology 26: 365 - 375.

HOBBY

Cecile Donnadieu
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Phone

+33 (0) 5 61 28 57 03

Key words

Genomic, Ecosystem Service,   Pollinator,  Sequencing

Donnadieu Cecile

Function

Genomicist in Ecosystem Services

RESEARCH SUBJECTS

I lead functional genomics projects aimed at understanding the genetic basis of ecosystem services provided by sunflower. These projects seek to maintain and enhance resource production services (nectar and pollen) and to promote agricultural systems favorable to biodiversity.

TRAINING

Trained as a biologist and expert in genomics and sequencing technologies, I spent 24 years managing the GeT-PlaGe sequencing platform.

RECENT FUNDING

During my previous role, I led the SeqOccIn project (2019–2023, https://get.genotoul.fr/seqoccin/), which aimed to develop new genomic and bioinformatic methods for analyzing structural variations, epigenetic marks, and metagenomics. The project brought together around 30 public and private partners from both animal and plant research, with a total budget of €6M.

Several new projects are currently in preparation, including PréHelliABLEL.

COLLABORATIONS

Over the years, I have collaborated with numerous laboratories. I also supported Toulouse University Hospital in monitoring SARS-CoV-2 mutants in the Occitanie region. Currently, my research focuses on the genetic control of ecosystem services in collaboration with entomologists and ecologists from the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI, DE) and the University of Carinthia (AU). I also contribute to the development of methodological tools such as high-throughput phenotyping to characterize pollinator behavior within the PHENOME project, in collaboration with UC Berkeley, the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, and JKI.

CONNECTIONS

Marianne Gani

Within the HelEx project, I am involved in organizing field trials, coordinating the exchange of biological material between partners, and analyzing data to develop sunflower varieties more resilient to extreme abiotic conditions, while improving seed quality and attractiveness to pollinators.

I also contributed to drafting quality procedures as part of the ISO 9001 certification of the Helia-Soja Biological Resource Center (CRB).

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Gani Marianne

Function

Project Engineer

RESEARCH SUBJECTS

TRAINING

Master’s in Integrated Coastal Management and Fisheries Valorization, University of Corsica

RECENT FUNDING

HelEx Project (Use of extremophile Helianthus species to mitigate climate change impact on feedstock and ecosystem services provided by sunflower)

CONNECTIONS

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Metzdorf Marie-Sophie

Function

Contracted assistant engineer 

TRAINING

Master en Biologie Végétale Parcours Biologie des Plantes et Microorganismes Associés

Marie-Sophie Metzdorf
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Jacquemot Marie-Pierre

Function

Assistant engineer in biological analyses​

RESEARCH SUBJECTS

TRAINING

RECENT FUNDING

COLLABORATIONS

EDUCATION

COMMITTEE MEMBER

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

CONNECTIONS

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Langlade Nicolas

Function

Team Leader ASTR
Research Director, Class 2

RESEARCH SUBJECTS

I conduct multidisciplinary research in close collaboration with private partners (such as breeding companies), the technical institute Terres Inovia, and various academic laboratories covering agronomy, systems biology, and evolution.

My objective is to understand the genetic and molecular control of sunflower responses to abiotic environments and to provide knowledge for adapting sunflower to agroecological cropping systems.

This includes:

  • Identifying genomic regions and polymorphisms controlling yield plasticity under drought or cold stress. To this end, I collaborate with agronomists (P. Casadebaig and Ph. Debaeke from UMR INRAE AGIR) to model crop functioning and characterize stress scenarios. Using quantitative genetics, we predict plasticity and identify QTLs or clone the genes involved in yield tolerance.

  • Characterizing the molecular response of sunflower to drought stress at different omics levels: inferring gene regulatory networks, integrating proteomic, metabolomic, transcriptomic, and physiological data in a systems biology framework.

  • Defining the sunflower ideotype adapted to new abiotic stress scenarios induced by agroecological transition (intercropping, relay-cropping) at phenotypic, molecular, and genetic levels.

  • Studying the impact of climate change on sunflower attractiveness for pollinators and its molecular and genetic control.

After a strong involvement in sunflower genomics, I consider the next frontier to be phenomics. I am actively involved in the high-throughput phenotyping infrastructure PhenoToul [1], which since 2019 has brought together the TPMP (controlled conditions), Heliaphen (semi-controlled conditions), and Agrophen (field conditions) platforms.

In addition, I am strongly involved in leading the French sunflower research community:

  • Coordination of the SUNRISE project (Investissements d’Avenir),

  • Chairing the sunflower technical committee of Promosol,

  • Participation in CTPS activities (Sunflower-Soybean section and VATE).

Internationally, I serve on the board of the International Sunflower Association (ISA) and the scientific committee of the International Consortium for Sunflower Genomics (ICSG).

[1] www.inrae.fr/phenotoul

TRAINING

Phone

+33 (0) 5 61 28 57 78

I started my career in Switzerland (PhD at the University of Neuchâtel, 1998–2002) with Enrico Martinoia, working on the physiological and molecular study of organic acid exudation and cluster root development in lupin.

I then worked in the United Kingdom (John Innes Center, Norwich, 2002–2006) with Enrico Coen, focusing on the evolution of leaf development and flower color in Antirrhinum (snapdragon).

Recruited in 2006 by INRA as a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Plant Reproduction and Development (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon) with Peter Rogowsky, I briefly worked on maize grain development.

I joined LIPME (INRAE Occitanie Toulouse) as a senior researcher in 2007, and I have been a Research Director since 2016. I lead the ASTR team (Abiotic Stress Tolerance in sunfloweR), which aims to identify the genetic and molecular bases of sunflower adaptation to abiotic constraints (drought and cold) at physiological and evolutionary levels.

I obtained my Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) in 2015 at the University of Toulouse, on integrating environmental and evolutionary constraints into gene regulatory networks.

RECENT FUNDING

  • Investissements d’Avenir project Sunrise [1], coordinator, leader of WP management, phenotyping, and genetics, 2012–2020

  • Bilateral INRAE–Syngenta project COPER, coordinator, 2020–2025

  • Heliopollen (Promosol), coordinator, 2021–2023

  • CIMS-ON (Plant2Pro), leader WP Phenotyping, 2020–2023

  • Investissements d’Avenir project Phenome-Emphasis [2], partner, 2012–2024

  • IPHARD (CASDAR), leader WP Phenotyping, 2019–2022

  • Heliawild (Promosol & seed companies), coordinator, 2022–2025

  • Heliasen (Promosol), coordinator, 2018–2020

  • Bilateral INRAE–Terres Inovia project EPhECTS, coordinator, 2018–2020

  • Heliadiv (Promosol), partner, 2015–2018

  • Heliadiv 2 (Promosol), partner, 2018–2020

[1] www.inrae.fr/sunrise
[2] https://www.phenome-emphasis.fr/

COLLABORATIONS

Key words

Sunflower, Genetics, Genomics, Phenotyping, Drought, Cold, Heat, High temperatures, Heliaphen, Polliphen, Phenotoul

At LIPME

  • Sunflower Genetic Resources Center (all projects)

  • Bioinformatics platform (SUNRISE, ICSG, COPER, Heliopollen)

  • Sunflower–Pest Interaction team (SUNRISE, ICSG, CIMS-ON)

At INRAE

  • AGIR (SUNRISE, CIMS-ON, IPHARD)

  • UE APC (CIMS-ON, IPHARD, PhASTER)

  • MIAT (SUNRISE)

  • BFP (SUNRISE)

  • GQE (SUNRISE)

  • CNRGV (SUNRISE, ICSG)

National level

  • Sorbonne Université (SUNRISE)

  • Terres Inovia (SUNRISE, EPhECTS)

  • Syngenta (SUNRISE, ICSG, COPER)

  • Lidea, MAS, Soltis, RAGT, Innolea (SUNRISE, ICSG, Heliawild)

  • Corteva (ICSG, Heliawild)

  • KWS (ICSG)

International level

  • INTA Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina (HeliaSen)

  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver (ICSG)

  • University of Georgia, Athens (ICSG)

EDUCATION

I present my research and the phenotyping platforms of the University of Toulouse within the TULIP Graduate School Master program [1], as well as at the University of Cordoba (Argentina) at the Master’s level.

[1] https://www.labex-tulip.fr/La-Graduate-School/Le-Master-TULIP-GS

COMMITTEE MEMBER

I participate in several bodies:

  • Member of the Board of the International Sunflower Association (ISA)

  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Consortium for Sunflower Genomics (ICSG)

  • Chair of the Promosol Sunflower Committee

  • Member of the Scientific Committees of Promosol and FSRSO

  • Member of the CTPS “Sunflower, soybean, and castor bean” section and of the VATE sunflower commission

  • Member of the Users’ Committee of the UE Agroecology and Crop Phenotyping facility

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

Scientific productions

Production scientifique lors de mes positions précédentes


Costa, M.M.R., Yang, S., Critchley, J., Feng, X., Wilson, Y., Langlade, N., Copsey, L., Hudson, A., 2012. The genetic basis for natural variation in heteroblasty in Antirrhinum. New Phytologist 196, 1251–1259.

Dubois, A., Raymond, O., Maene, M., Baudino, S., Langlade, N.B., Boltz, V., Vergne, P., Bendahmane, M., 2010. Tinkering with the C-function: a molecular frame for the selection of double flowers in cultivated roses. PLoS ONE 5, e9288.

 

Bensmihen, S., Hanna, A.I., Langlade, N.B., Micol, J.L., Bangham, A., Coen, E.S., 2008. Mutational spaces for leaf shape and size. HFSP journal 2, 110–120.


Whibley, A.C*., Langlade, N.B.*, Andalo, C., Hanna, A.I., Bangham, A., Thébaud, C., Coen, E., 2006. Evolutionary paths underlying flower color variation in Antirrhinum. Science 313, 963–966. *co-first authors

Weisskopf, L., Tomasi, N., Santelia, D., Martinoia, E., Langlade, N.B., Tabacchi, R., Abou- Mansour, E., 2006. Isoflavonoid exudation from white lupin roots is influenced by phosphate supply, root type and cluster-root stage. New Phytologist 171, 657–668.

Dreyer, C., Langlade, N., Hoffmann, M., Tripathi, N., Russell, S., Weigel, D., 2006. Inheritance And Natural Variation Of Adult Male Ornaments Of The Guppy: Pp010p. Reticulata: Pp010. Pigment Cell Research 19, 519.

Langlade, N.B., Feng, X., Dransfield, T., Copsey, L., Hanna, A.I., Thébaud, C., Bangham, A., Hudson, A., Coen, E., 2005. Evolution through genetically controlled allometry space. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the united states of america 102, 10221–10226.

Kania, A.*, Langlade, N.*, Martinoia, E., Neumann, G., 2003. Phosphorus deficiency- induced modifications in citrate catabolism and in cytosolic pH as related to citrate exudation in cluster roots of white lupin. Plant and soil 248, 117–127. *co-first authors

Langlade, N., Messerli, G., Weisskopf, L., Plaza, S., Tomasi, N., Smutny, J., Neumann, G., Martinoia, E., Massonneau, A., 2002. ATP citrate lyase: cloning, heterologous expression and possible implication in root organic acid metabolism and excretion. Plant, Cell & Environment 25, 1561–1569.

Massonneau, A., Langlade, N., Léon, S., Smutny, J., Vogt, E., Neumann, G., Martinoia, E., 2001. Metabolic changes associated with cluster root development in white lupin (Lupinus albus L.): relationship between organic acid excretion, sucrose metabolism and energy status. Planta 213, 534–542.

Neumann, G., Massonneau, A., Langlade, N., Dinkelaker, B., Hengeler, C., Römheld, V., Martinoia, E., 2000. Physiological Aspects of Cluster Root Function and Development in Phosphorus-deficient White Lupin ( Lupinus albus L.). Annals of Botany 85, 909–919. https://doi.org/10.1006/anbo.2000.1135

CONNECTIONS

Nicolas Langlade
Marco Moroldo
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Phone

 +33 (0) 5 61 28 57 03

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Moroldo Marco

Function

Research engineer

RESEARCH SUBJECTS

I contribute to most of the team’s projects by providing expertise in omics data analysis, which has led me to work on very diverse biological questions, including responses to water and heat stress, as well as characterization of specific tissues such as nectaries or anthers.

Currently, I am developing research activities focused on the genetic determinants of protein quality and seed hullability, in collaboration with plant breeding companies and the technical institute Terres Inovia.

TRAINING

  • PhD (2002–2006), Michele Morgante’s lab, University of Udine, Italy: generated the first physical map of the nuclear grapevine genome and performed sequencing and annotation of the chloroplast genome.

  • Postdoctoral Researcher (2006–2008), Anne Françoise Adam-Blondon’s lab, INRAE Evry: worked on genetic and physical mapping, and nucleotide diversity patterns of a set of resistance genes in the nuclear grapevine genome.

  • INRAE staff (2010–2017): Head of the “CRB–GADIE” genomics platform, GABI unit (INRAE, Jouy en Josas), providing services in NGS sequencing, microarrays, and biological sample storage.

  • Bioinformatics and Biostatistics team, GABI unit (2017–2021).

  • Joined the ASTR team in 2021 as a Data Analyst: involved in association genetics, transcriptome, and metabolome analyses, while developing independent research projects on leaf senescence, water stress, intercropping, and the genetic control of protein quality.

RECENT FUNDING

  • Plant2Pro Project “TOURT’OP,” Coordinator, 2026–2027

  • BAP Department Project “CIMS-ON+,” Coordinator, 2022

COLLABORATIONS

Within LIPME:

  • Bioinformatics platform (CIMS-ON+, TOURT’OP)

Within INRAE:

  • MIA Unit, Paris (CIMS-ON+)

  • GABI Unit, Paris (CIMS-ON+)

  • Metabohub Platform, Toulouse (CIMS-ON+)

  • POPS Platform, Paris (CIMS-ON+)

National level:

  • Aix-Marseille University (CIMS-ON+, HelEx)

  • CNRS Paris (CIMS-ON+)

  • Terres Inovia (TOURT’OP)

  • Geves (TOURT’OP)

International level:

  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (HelEx)

  • IGA Tech, Italy (CIMS-ON+, COPER, HelEx)

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

Recent sunflower research:

  • Leconte J.M.L., et al. (2025) Multi-scale characterisation of cold response reveals immediate and long-term impacts on cell physiology up to seed composition in sunflower. Plant Cell Environ, 48(4):2596–2614.

  • Moroldo M., et al. (2024) Genetic control of abiotic stress-related specialized metabolites in sunflower. BMC Genomics, 25(1):199.

Previous research (2020–2023):

  • Chaussé A.M., et al. (2023) Epithelial cell invasion by Salmonella typhimurium induces modulation of genes controlled by aryl hydrocarbon receptor signaling and involved in extracellular matrix biogenesis. Virulence, 14(1).

  • Adel-Patient K., et al. (2023) Assessment of local and systemic signature of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) in children through multi-omics approaches. Front Immunol, 14.

  • Rau A., et al. (2022) Potential genetic robustness of Prnp and Sprn double knockout mouse embryos towards ShRNA-lentiviral inoculation. Vet Res, 53(1):54.

  • Mach N., et al. (2021) Understanding the holobiont: crosstalk between gut microbiota and mitochondria during long exercise in horse. Front Mol Biosci, 8:656204.

  • Lallias D., et al. (2021) Sources of variation of DNA methylation in rainbow trout: combined effects of temperature and genetic background. Epigenetics, 16(9):1031–1052.

  • Crisci E., et al. (2020) Distinctive cellular and metabolic reprogramming in porcine lung mononuclear phagocytes infected with type 1 PRRSV strains. Front Immunol, 11.

  • Moroldo M., et al. (2020) Integrative analysis of blood and gut microbiota data suggests a non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)-related disorder in French SLAdd minipigs. Sci Rep, 10(1):234.

CONNECTIONS

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Pouilly Nicolas

Function

Project engineer

RESEARCH SUBJECTS

Tolerance to abiotic stresses, Sunflower–Pollinators–Environment interactions

TRAINING

Nicolas Pouilly

Master’s degree in Biochemistry, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour

COLLABORATIONS

Phone

+33 (0) 5 61 28 53 25

Key words

Molecular biology, genetics, genomics

Hélène Badouin, Laboratory of Biometry and Evolutionary Biology (Université Lyon 1 / CNRS)

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

  • Calderón-González, Á., Pérez Vich, B., Pouilly, N., Boniface, M. C., Louarn, J., Velasco, L., & Munos, S. (2023). Association Mapping for Broomrape Resistance in Sunflower. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13, 5423.

  • Badouin, H., Boniface, M.C., Pouilly, N., Fuchs, A.L., Vear, F., Langlade, N.B., Gouzy, J., & Munos, S. (2021). Pooled Single-Molecule transcriptomics identifies a giant gene under balancing selection in sunflower. BioRxiv. DOI:10.1101/2021.03.17.435796

  • Calderón-González, Á., Pouilly, N., Muños, S., Grand, X., Coque, M., Velasco, L., & Pérez-Vich, B. (2019). A SSR-SNP linkage map of the parasitic weed Orobanche cumana Wallr. including a gene for plant pigmentation. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10, 797.

  • Bonnafous, F., Fievet, G., Blanchet, N., Boniface, M.C., Carrère, S., Gouzy, J., Legrand, L., Marage, G., Bret-Mestries, E., Munos, S., Pouilly, N., Vincourt, P., Langlade, N.B., & Mangin, B. (2018). Comparison of GWAS models to identify non-additive genetic control of flowering time in sunflower hybrids. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 131(2), 319-332.

  • Bordat, A., Marchand, G., Langlade, N.B., Pouilly, N., Muños, S., Dechamp-Guillaume, G., Vincourt, P., & Bret-Mestries, E. (2017). Different genetic architectures underlie crop responses to the same pathogen: the Helianthus annuus–Phoma macdonaldii interaction case for black stem disease and premature ripening. BMC Plant Biology, 17(1), 167.

  • Mangin, B., Bonnafous, F., Blanchet, N., Boniface, M.C., Bret-Mestries, E., Carrère, S., Cottret, L., Legrand, L., Marage, G., Pegot-Espagnet, P., Munos, S., Pouilly, N., Vear, F., Vincourt, P., & Langlade, N.B. (2017). Genomic Prediction of Sunflower Hybrids Oil Content. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, 1633.

  • Mangin, B., Casadebaig, P., Cadic, E., Blanchet, N., Boniface, M.C., Carrère, S., Gouzy, J., Legrand, L., Mayjonade, B., Pouilly, N., André, T., Coque, M., Piquemal, J., Laporte, M., Vincourt, P., Muños, S., & Langlade, N.B. (2017). Genetic control of plasticity of oil yield for combined abiotic stresses using a joint approach of crop modelling and genome-wide association. Plant, Cell and Environment, 40(10), 2276-2291.

  • Badouin, H., Gouzy, J., Grassa, C.J., Murat, F., Staton, S.E., Cottret, L., Lelandais-Brière, C., Owens, G., Carrère, S., Mayjonade, B., et al. (2017). The sunflower genome illuminates the evolutionary history of the Asterids and provides new insights into oil metabolism and flowering time. Nature, 546, 148–152.

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Guillaume Tueux
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Tueux Guillaume

Function

PhD student

RESEARCH SUBJECTS

Genetic and molecular control of the sunflower nectar microbiome and its impact on pollinator attractiveness

TRAINING

  • Purpan Engineering School (2016–2021)

  • Innovation projects coordinator and phenotyping for sunflower pollination at Syngenta (2022–2023)

Key words

RECENT FUNDING

Attracthol project, funded by Carnot Plant2Pro

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

Collaboration with Terres Inovia

CONNECTIONS

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