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Abdelhafid Bendahmane

Abdelhafid Bendahmane

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69
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21638
World Ranking
2329
National Ranking
108

Overview

Abdelhafid Bendahmane is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work often centers on Plant Science and Molecular Biology, with additional involvement in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and Food Science. These subfields reflect the broader scope of their research activities.

Their main research topics include:

  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

Frequent collaborators in the scientist's research include:

  • Adnane Boualem
  • Marion Dalmais
  • Catherine Dogimont
  • Halima Morin
  • Filip Slavković

Their research has been published extensively in several venues:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Trends in Plant Science
  • Molecular Plant

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Abdelhafid Bendahmane include:

  • "Wheat chromatin architecture is organized in genome territories and transcription factories," 2020, Genome Biology
  • "Genetic Control of Glandular Trichome Development," 2020, Trends in Plant Science
  • "HSFA1a modulates plant heat stress responses and alters the 3D chromatin organization of enhancer-promoter interactions," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "GCN5 modulates salicylic acid homeostasis by regulating H3K14ac levels at the 5' and 3' ends of its target genes," 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "The miR166-SlHB15A regulatory module controls ovule development and parthenocarpic fruit set under adverse temperatures in tomato," 2021, Molecular Plant

Best Publications

  • Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome

    Rudi Appels;Rudi Appels;Kellye Eversole;Nils Stein;Nils Stein

  • The transcriptional landscape of polyploid wheat

    R. H. Ramírez-González;P. Borrill;D. Lang;S. A. Harrington

  • The Rx Gene from Potato Controls Separate Virus Resistance and Cell Death Responses

    Abdelhafid Bendahmane;Konstantin Kanyuka;David C. Baulcombe

  • The heat‐shock protein/chaperone network and multiple stress resistance

    Pierre Jacob;Heribert Hirt;Abdelhafid Bendahmane

  • A transposon-induced epigenetic change leads to sex determination in melon

    Antoine Martin;Christelle Troadec;Adnane Boualem;Mazen Rajab

  • High throughput virus‐induced gene silencing implicates heat shock protein 90 in plant disease resistance

    Rui Lu;Isabelle Malcuit;Peter Moffett;Maria T. Ruiz

  • Sex Chromosomes in Land Plants

    Ray Ming;Abdelhafid Bendahmane;Abdelhafid Bendahmane;Susanne S. Renner

  • A reference genome for pea provides insight into legume genome evolution

    Jonathan Kreplak;Mohammed Amin Madoui;Petr Cápal;Petr Novák

  • The Rosa genome provides new insights into the domestication of modern roses.

    Olivier Raymond;Jérôme Gouzy;Jérémy Just;Hélène Badouin;Hélène Badouin

  • The pea TCP transcription factor PsBRC1 acts downstream of strigolactones to control shoot branching

    Nils Braun;Alexandre de Saint Germain;Jean-Paul Pillot;Stéphanie Boutet-Mercey

  • A natural recessive resistance gene against potato virus Y in pepper corresponds to the eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E)

    Sandrine Ruffel;Marie-Hélène Dussault;Alain Palloix;Benoît Moury

  • Agrobacterium transient expression system as a tool for the isolation of disease resistance genes: application to the Rx2 locus in potato

    Abdelhafid Bendahmane;Maddalena Querci;Konstantin Kanyuka;David C. Baulcombe

  • Homologues of a single resistance-gene cluster in potato confer resistance to distinct pathogens: a virus and a nematode.

    E. A. G. Van Der Vossen;J. N. A. M. Rouppe Van Der Voort;K. Kanyuka;A. Bendahmane

  • Constitutive gain-of-function mutants in a nucleotide binding site–leucine rich repeat protein encoded at the Rx locus of potato

    Abdelhafid Bendahmane;Garry Farnham;Peter Moffett;David C. Baulcombe

  • Identification of the fertility restoration locus, Rfo, in radish, as a member of the pentatricopeptide-repeat protein family

    Sophie Desloire;Hassen Gherbi;Wassila Laloui;Sylvie Marhadour

  • A conserved mutation in an ethylene biosynthesis enzyme leads to andromonoecy in melons.

    Adnane Boualem;Mohamed Fergany;Ronan Fernandez;Christelle Troadec

  • A cucurbit androecy gene reveals how unisexual flowers develop and dioecy emerges

    Adnane Boualem;Christelle Troadec;Céline Camps;Afef Lemhemdi

  • The coat protein of potato virus X is a strain‐specific elicitor of Rx1‐mediated virus resistance in potato

    Abdelhafid Bendahmane;Bärbel A. Köhm;Cynthia Dedi;David C. Baulcombe

  • An induced mutation in tomato eIF4E leads to immunity to two potyviruses.

    Florence Piron;Maryse Nicolaï;Silvia Minoïa;Elodie Piednoir

  • An eIF4E allele confers resistance to an uncapped and non-polyadenylated RNA virus in melon

    Cristina Nieto;Monica Morales;Gisella Orjeda;Christian Clepet

Frequent Co-Authors

Moussa Benhamed
Moussa Benhamed University of Paris-Saclay
Heribert Hirt
Heribert Hirt King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
David C. Baulcombe
David C. Baulcombe University of Cambridge
Michel Caboche
Michel Caboche INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jordi Garcia-Mas
Jordi Garcia-Mas Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology
Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Grégoire Aubert
Grégoire Aubert INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Miguel A. Aranda
Miguel A. Aranda Spanish National Research Council
Rafael Perl-Treves
Rafael Perl-Treves Bar-Ilan University

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