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D-Index
46
Citations
10330
World Ranking
2641
National Ranking
92

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Botany
  • Ecology
  • Gene

Bertrand Muller spends much of his time researching Botany, Photosynthesis, Arabidopsis thaliana, Soil water and Poaceae. Bertrand Muller has researched Botany in several fields, including Abscisic acid and Interception. His research in Photosynthesis intersects with topics in C metabolism, Plant growth and Sink.

His Arabidopsis thaliana research includes elements of Primordium, Arabidopsis and Transpiration. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Quantitative trait locus and Agronomy. His work deals with themes such as Meristem and Horticulture, which intersect with Poaceae.

His most cited work include:

  • Water deficits uncouple growth from photosynthesis, increase C content, and modify the relationships between C and growth in sink organs (434 citations)
  • PHENOPSIS, an automated platform for reproducible phenotyping of plant responses to soil water deficit in Arabidopsis thaliana permitted the identification of an accession with low sensitivity to soil water deficit. (418 citations)
  • 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 (356 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Botany, Agronomy, Horticulture, Climate change and Agriculture. His study in the field of Poaceae also crosses realms of Elongation. His Poaceae study also includes

  • Soil water which intersects with area such as Quantitative trait locus,
  • Xylem and related Phloem.

His study in Agronomy is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Arid, Pearl, Ecophysiology and Nutrient. The study incorporates disciplines such as Sugar, Spatial distribution, Photosynthesis and Quantitative genetics in addition to Horticulture. The concepts of his Arabidopsis thaliana study are interwoven with issues in Primordium and Transpiration.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Botany (38.53%)
  • Agronomy (16.51%)
  • Horticulture (15.60%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2016-2020)?

  • Lateral root (11.93%)
  • Botany (38.53%)
  • Root system (8.26%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of study are Lateral root, Botany, Root system, Phenomics and Climate change. His Lateral root study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Cellular differentiation, Division, Biological system, Root hair and Principal component analysis. Bertrand Muller undertakes multidisciplinary studies into Botany and Elongation in his work.

His Climate change research incorporates elements of Food security and Socioeconomics. His Yield research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Drought tolerance, Transpiration, Crop yield, Temporal scales and Genetic architecture. His Horticulture research includes themes of Sugar, Spatial distribution and Dwarfism.

Between 2016 and 2020, his most popular works were:

  • The Physiological Basis of Drought Tolerance in Crop Plants: A Scenario-Dependent Probabilistic Approach. (124 citations)
  • Developmental, molecular and genetic studies on grapevine response to temperature open breeding strategies for adaptation to warming (24 citations)
  • Are subsidies to weather-index insurance the best use of public funds? A bio-economic farm model applied to the Senegalese groundnut basin (17 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Botany
  • Ecology
  • Gene

His main research concerns Phenomics, Computational biology, Link, Crop simulation model and Economic model. His Phenomics investigation overlaps with Agronomy, Crop, Yield, Transpiration and Crop yield. His Economic model research encompasses a variety of disciplines, including Agricultural economics, Cash, Developing country, Welfare and Index.

Many of his Agricultural economics research pursuits overlap with Scarcity and Subsidy.

Best Publications

  • Water deficits uncouple growth from photosynthesis, increase C content, and modify the relationships between C and growth in sink organs

    Bertrand Muller;Florent Pantin;Michel Génard;Olivier Turc

  • PHENOPSIS, an automated platform for reproducible phenotyping of plant responses to soil water deficit in Arabidopsis thaliana permitted the identification of an accession with low sensitivity to soil water deficit.

    Christine Granier;Luis Aguirrezabal;Luis Aguirrezabal;Karine Chenu;Sarah Jane Cookson

  • Arabidopsis Plants Acclimate to Water Deficit at Low Cost through Changes of Carbon Usage: An Integrated Perspective Using Growth, Metabolite, Enzyme, and Gene Expression Analysis

    Irène Hummel;Florent Pantin;Ronan Sulpice;Maria Piques

  • The Physiological Basis of Drought Tolerance in Crop Plants: A Scenario-Dependent Probabilistic Approach.

    François Tardieu;Thierry Simonneau;Bertrand Muller

  • 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

  • A Role for Auxin Redistribution in the Responses of the Root System Architecture to Phosphate Starvation in Arabidopsis

    Philippe Nacry;Geneviève Canivenc;Bertrand Muller;Abdelkrim Azmi

  • The dual effect of abscisic acid on stomata

    Florent Pantin;Fabien Monnet;Dorothée Jannaud;Dorothée Jannaud;Joaquim Miguel Costa;Joaquim Miguel Costa

  • Assessing climate change impacts on sorghum and millet yields in the Sudanian and Sahelian savannas of West Africa

    Benjamin Sultan;Philippe Roudier;P. Quirion;Agali Alhassane

  • Coming of leaf age: control of growth by hydraulics and metabolics during leaf ontogeny

    Florent Pantin;Thierry Simonneau;Bertrand Muller

  • Inhibition of NO⊟3 Uptake by Various Phloem-Translocated Amino Acids in Soybean Seedlings

    Bertrand Muller;Bruno Touraine

  • Spatial distributions of expansion rate, cell division rate and cell size in maize leaves: a synthesis of the effects of soil water status, evaporative demand and temperature

    François Tardieu;Matthieu Reymond;Philippe Hamard;Christine Granier

  • Non-structural carbohydrates in woody plants compared among laboratories.

    Audrey G. Quentin;Audrey G. Quentin;Elizabeth A. Pinkard;Michael G. Ryan;Michael G. Ryan;David T. Tissue

  • Modelling leaf expansion in a fluctuating environment: are changes in specific leaf area a consequence of changes in expansion rate?

    F. Tardieu;C. Granier;B. Muller

  • Arabidopsis growth under prolonged high temperature and water deficit: independent or interactive effects?

    Denis Vile;Marjorie Pervent;Michaël Belluau;François Vasseur

  • Water deficit and growth. Co-ordinating processes without an orchestrator?

    François Tardieu;Christine Granier;Bertrand Muller

  • Evaluation of sixteen reference evapotranspiration methods under sahelian conditions in the Senegal River Valley

    Koffi Djaman;Alpha B. Balde;Abdoulaye Sow;Bertrand Muller

  • Temporal responses of Arabidopsis root architecture to phosphate starvation: evidence for the involvement of auxin signalling

    Y. Al-Ghazi;B. Muller;S. Pinloche;T. J. Tranbarger

  • The role of climate forecasts in smallholder agriculture: Lessons from participatory research in two communities in Senegal

    Philippe Roudier;Bertrand Muller;Patrick D'Aquino;Carla Roncoli

  • Control of Leaf Expansion: A Developmental Switch from Metabolics to Hydraulics

    Florent Pantin;Thierry Simonneau;Gaëlle Rolland;Myriam Dauzat

  • Individual leaf development in Arabidopsis thaliana: a stable thermal-time-based programme.

    Christine Granier;Catherine Massonnet;Olivier Turc;Bertrand Muller

  • Leaf growth rate per unit thermal time follows QTL-dependent daily patterns in hundreds of maize lines under naturally fluctuating conditions.

    Walid Sadok;Philippe Naudin;Benoit Boussuge;Bertrand Muller

  • Root elongation and branching is related to local hexose concentration in Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings

    S. Freixes;M.-C. Thibaud;F. Tardieu;B. Muller

Frequent Co-Authors

François Tardieu
François Tardieu INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Christine Granier
Christine Granier INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Thierry Simonneau
Thierry Simonneau INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Michaël Dingkuhn
Michaël Dingkuhn Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Benjamin Sultan
Benjamin Sultan Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Laurent Laplaze
Laurent Laplaze University of Montpellier
Bruno Touraine
Bruno Touraine University of Montpellier
Yves Gibon
Yves Gibon University of Bordeaux
Philippe Quirion
Philippe Quirion Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Karine Chenu
Karine Chenu University of Queensland

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