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Bertrand Hirel is affiliated with INRAE, the Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research focuses primarily on agricultural and biological sciences, particularly within plant science and molecular biology. Key areas of study include plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, legume nitrogen fixing symbiosis, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, plant stress responses and tolerance, crop yield and soil fertility, and mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions.

The scientist has published extensively across several notable journals and platforms. Frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with four publications, the journal Plants with three, Journal of Experimental Botany with two, as well as Microorganisms and The Plant Journal.

Bertrand Hirel's recent papers cover a range of topics within plant nutrient acquisition and metabolism. These papers include:

  • Beneficial soil-borne bacteria and fungi: a promising way to improve plant nitrogen acquisition, 2020, Journal of Experimental Botany
  • Sphingomonas sediminicola Is an Endosymbiotic Bacterium Able to Induce the Formation of Root Nodules in Pea (Pisum sativum L.) and to Enhance Plant Biomass Production, 2023, Microorganisms
  • NADH-GOGAT Overexpression Does Not Improve Maize (Zea mays L.) Performance Even When Pyramiding with NAD-IDH, GDH and GS, 2020, Plants
  • Dissecting the metabolic reprogramming of maize root under nitrogen-deficient stress conditions, 2021, Journal of Experimental Botany
  • A revised view on the evolution of glutamine synthetase isoenzymes in plants, 2022, The Plant Journal

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Isabelle Quilleré
  • Anis M. Limami
  • Niaz Bahar Chowdhury
  • Rajib Saha
  • Alia Dellagi

Bertrand Hirel's multidisciplinary approach integrates subfields such as agronomy and crop science, physical and theoretical chemistry, and biomedical engineering to advance understanding of plant physiological processes. Their work often investigates symbiotic relationships in legumes, nitrogen fixation, and metabolic adaptations of crops under environmental stresses.

Best Publications

  • The challenge of improving nitrogen use efficiency in crop plants: towards a more central role for genetic variability and quantitative genetics within integrated approaches

    Bertrand Hirel;Jacques Le Gouis;Bertrand Ney;André Gallais

  • Towards a better understanding of the genetic and physiological basis for nitrogen use efficiency in maize

    Bertrand Hirel;Pascal Bertin;Isabelle Quilleré;William Bourdoncle

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

    Antoine Martin;Judy Lee;Thomas Kichey;Denise Gerentes

  • Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Crops for Sustainable Agriculture

    Bertrand Hirel;Thierry Tétu;Peter J. Lea;Frédéric Dubois

  • In winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), post-anthesis nitrogen uptake and remobilisation to the grain correlates with agronomic traits and nitrogen physiological markers

    Thomas Kichey;Thomas Kichey;Bertrand Hirel;Emmanuel Heumez;Frédéric Dubois

  • Characterization of the sink/source transition in tobacco ( Nicotiana tabacum L.) shoots in relation to nitrogen management and leaf senescence.

    Céline Masclaux;Marie-Hélène Valadier;Norbert Brugière;Jean-François Morot-Gaudry

  • Glutamine Synthetases of Higher Plants Evidence for a Specific Isoform Content Related to Their Possible Physiological Role and Their Compartmentation within the Leaf

    Sheila F. McNally;Bertrand Hirel;Pierre Gadal;A. Fred Mann

  • The challenge of remobilisation in plant nitrogen economy. A survey of physio-agronomic and molecular approaches.

    Céline Masclaux;Isabelle Quilleré;André Gallais;Bertrand Hirel

  • Glutamine Synthetase in the Phloem Plays a Major Role in Controlling Proline Production

    Norbert Brugière;Frédéric Dubois;Anis M. Limami;Maud Lelandais

  • Glutamine Synthetase in Rice: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ENZYMES FROM ROOTS AND LEAVES.

    Bertrand Hirel;Pierre Gadal

  • Glutamine Synthetase in Higher Plants: Regulation of Gene and Protein Expression from the Organ to the Cell

    Michèle Cren;Michèle Cren;Bertrand Hirel

  • Glutamate dehydrogenase in plants: is there a new story for an old enzyme?

    Frédéric Dubois;Thérèse Tercé-Laforgue;Maria-Begoña Gonzalez-Moro;Maria-Begoña Gonzalez-Moro;José-Maria Estavillo;José-Maria Estavillo

  • The use of metabolomics integrated with transcriptomic and proteomic studies for identifying key steps involved in the control of nitrogen metabolism in crops such as maize

    Nardjis Amiour;Sandrine Imbaud;Gilles Clément;Nicolas Agier

  • Breeding for increased nitrogen-use efficiency: A review for wheat (T. aestivum L.)

    Fabien Cormier;John Foulkes;Bertrand Hirel;David Gouache

  • Gene expression, cellular localisation and function of glutamine synthetase isozymes in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.).

    Stéphanie M. Bernard;Anders Laurell Blom Møller;Giuseppe Dionisio;Thomas Kichey

  • Overexpression of a soybean gene encoding cytosolic glutamine synthetase in shoots of transgenic Lotus corniculatus L. plants triggers changes in ammonium assimilation and plant development

    Rémi Vincent;Vincent Fraisier;Sylvain Chaillou;M. Anis Limami

  • Carbon and nitrogen allocation and grain filling in three maize hybrids differing in leaf senescence

    B. Pommel;A. Gallais;M. Coque;I. Quilleré

  • Leaf-specific overexpression of plastidic glutamine synthetase stimulates the growth of transgenic tobacco seedlings.

    Andrea Migge;Elisa Carrayol;Bertrand Hirel;Thomas W. Becker

  • Characterization of a NADH-Dependent Glutamate Dehydrogenase Mutant of Arabidopsis Demonstrates the Key Role of this Enzyme in Root Carbon and Nitrogen Metabolism

    Jean-Xavier Fontaine;Thérèse Tercé-Laforgue;Patrick Armengaud;Gilles Clément

  • New insights towards the function of glutamate dehydrogenase revealed during source-sink transition of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) plants grown under different nitrogen regimes.

    Thérèse Tercé-Laforgue;Gisela Mäck;Bertrand Hirel

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Lea
Peter J. Lea Lancaster University
Pierre Gadal
Pierre Gadal Institut des Sciences des Plantes de Paris Saclay
Anis M. Limami
Anis M. Limami University of Angers
Jacques Le Gouis
Jacques Le Gouis INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Gilles Clément
Gilles Clément University of Paris-Saclay
Christine H. Foyer
Christine H. Foyer University of Birmingham
Rajbir S. Sangwan
Rajbir S. Sangwan University of Picardie Jules Verne
Michel Zivy
Michel Zivy University of Paris-Saclay
Bruno Andrieu
Bruno Andrieu INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Costas D. Maranas
Costas D. Maranas Pennsylvania State University

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