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Overview

Alain Charcosset is affiliated with INRAE, the Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research career spans multiple aspects of genetics and plant breeding, with a primary focus on agricultural genetics and molecular biology.

Their publication record includes recent papers such as "Optimized breeding strategies to harness genetic resources with different performance levels" (2020) published in BMC Genomics, "Improving the use of plant genetic resources to sustain breeding programs' efficiency" (2023) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, "Physiological adaptive traits are a potential allele reservoir for maize genetic progress under challenging conditions" (2022) in Nature Communications, "Genomic prediction of hybrid crops allows disentangling dominance and epistasis" (2021) in Genetics, and "Efficient ReML inference in variance component mixed models using a Min-Max algorithm" (2022) in PLoS Computational Biology.

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Alain Charcosset include Tristan Mary-Huard, Laurence Moreau, Delphine Madur, Cyril Bauland, and Stéphane Nicolas. These collaborators have contributed to many of their works across different projects and publications.

The primary publication venues for their research include Theoretical and Applied Genetics with eight publications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with six, Genetics with five, and both PLoS Genetics and PLoS ONE with two publications each.

Alain Charcosset's main fields of study are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these broader fields, their work focuses on several subfields including Genetics, Plant Science, Agronomy and Crop Science, Molecular Biology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The topics most frequently addressed in their research are Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Genetics and Plant Breeding, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Crop Yield and Soil Fertility, Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology, Genetic diversity and population structure, and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology.

Best Publications

  • A large maize (Zea mays L.) SNP genotyping array: development and germplasm genotyping, and genetic mapping to compare with the B73 reference genome.

    Martin W. Ganal;Gregor Durstewitz;Andreas Polley;Aurélie Bérard

  • Two Cytosolic Glutamine Synthetase Isoforms of Maize Are Specifically Involved in the Control of Grain Production

    Antoine Martin;Judy Lee;Thomas Kichey;Denise Gerentes

  • Combining Quantitative Trait Loci Analysis and an Ecophysiological Model to Analyze the Genetic Variability of the Responses of Maize Leaf Growth to Temperature and Water Deficit

    Matthieu Reymond;Bertrand Muller;Agnès Leonardi;Alain Charcosset

  • Marker-Assisted Introgression of Quantitative Trait Loci

    Alain Charcosset

  • Maximizing the Reliability of Genomic Selection by Optimizing the Calibration Set of Reference Individuals: Comparison of Methods in Two Diverse Groups of Maize Inbreds ( Zea mays L.)

    Renaud Rincent;Denis Laloë;Stephane Nicolas;T. Altmann

  • More on the efficiency of marker-assisted selection

    L. Moreau;F. Lacoudre;A. Charcosset

  • BioMercator V3

    Olivier Sosnowski;Alain Charcosset;Johann Joets

  • Maize introduction into Europe: the history reviewed in the light of molecular data

    C Rebourg;M Chastanet;B Gouesnard;C Welcker

  • Marker-assisted selection efficiency in populations of finite size.

    Laurence Moreau;Alain Charcosset;André Gallais;André Gallais

  • Intraspecific variation of recombination rate in maize

    Eva Bauer;Matthieu Falque;Hildrun Walter;Cyril Bauland

  • Usefulness of gene information in marker-assisted recurrent selection: A simulation appraisal

    Rex Bernardo;Alain Charcosset

  • Marker-assisted introgression of favorable alleles at quantitative trait loci between maize elite lines.

    Agnès Bouchez;Mathilde Causse;André Gallais

  • The Genetic Basis of Heterosis: Multiparental Quantitative Trait Loci Mapping Reveals Contrasted Levels of Apparent Overdominance Among Traits of Agronomical Interest in Maize ( Zea mays L.)

    Amandine Larièpe;Brigitte Mangin;Sylvain Jasson;Valérie Combes

  • Key Impact of Vgt1 on Flowering Time Adaptation in Maize: Evidence From Association Mapping and Ecogeographical Information

    Sébastien Ducrocq;Delphine Madur;Jean-Baptiste Veyrieras;Létizia Camus-Kulandaivelu

  • Genetic analysis and QTL mapping of cell wall digestibility and lignification in silage maize

    Valérie Méchin;Odile Argillier;Yannick Hébert;Emmanuelle Guingo

  • Relationship between heterosis and heterozygosity at marker loci: a theoretical computation

    A Charcosset;M Lefort-Buson;A Gallais

  • The effect of population structure on the relationship between heterosis and heterozygosity at marker loci

    A. Charcosset;L. Essioux

  • Usefulness of Multiparental Populations of Maize (Zea mays L.) for Genome-Based Prediction

    Christina Lehermeier;Nicole Krämer;Eva Bauer;Cyril Bauland

  • Large scale molecular analysis of traditional European maize populations. Relationships with morphological variation.

    C Rebourg;B Gouesnard;A Charcosset

  • Relationship between phenotypic and marker distances: theoretical and experimental investigations

    Judith Burstin;Alain Charcosset

Frequent Co-Authors

Albrecht E. Melchinger
Albrecht E. Melchinger University of Hohenheim
Thomas Altmann
Thomas Altmann Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
Chris-Carolin Schön
Chris-Carolin Schön Technical University of Munich
Dominique Brunel
Dominique Brunel INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Pedro Revilla
Pedro Revilla Spanish National Research Council
Yves Barrière
Yves Barrière INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Mathilde Causse
Mathilde Causse INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Catherine Damerval
Catherine Damerval University of Paris-Saclay
Marilyn L. Warburton
Marilyn L. Warburton United States Department of Agriculture
Boddupalli M. Prasanna
Boddupalli M. Prasanna International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

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