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Boulos Chalhoub is affiliated with INRAE (Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement) in France. Their research primarily targets areas within agricultural and biological sciences, with a strong focus on genomics, molecular biology, and genetics. Throughout their career, Chalhoub has contributed notably to studies on plant science and evolutionary biology.

Their work includes investigations into genomics and phylogenetic studies, chromosomal and genetic variations, and genetic diversity and population structure. Further topics covered include wheat and barley genetics and pathology, genome rearrangement algorithms, plant virus research studies, and plant taxonomy and phylogenetics.

Chalhoub has published in various scientific venues, frequently appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Plants
  • Nature Communications
  • Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • Genetics

Recent publications by Chalhoub include the following:

  • A high-contiguity Brassica nigra genome localizes active centromeres and defines the ancestral Brassica genome, 2020, Nature Plants
  • Gradual polyploid genome evolution revealed by pan-genomic analysis of Brachypodium hybridum and its diploid progenitors, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Modelling of gene loss propensity in the pangenomes of three Brassica species suggests different mechanisms between polyploids and diploids, 2021, Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • Multiple origins, one evolutionary trajectory: gradual evolution characterizes distinct lineages of allotetraploid Brachypodium, 2022, Genetics
  • High contiguity long read assembly of Brassica nigra allows localization of active centromeres and provides insights into the ancestral Brassica genome, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Several researchers have collaborated frequently with Chalhoub, including:

  • Ian Bancroft (3 collaborations)
  • Sampath Perumal (2 collaborations)
  • ChuShin Koh (2 collaborations)
  • Lingling Jin (2 collaborations)
  • Miles Buchwaldt (2 collaborations)

The main fields of study associated with Chalhoub's work are Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their subfields include Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. The combination of these areas highlights an interdisciplinary approach to understanding plant genomes and evolutionary processes.

Best Publications

  • A unified classification system for eukaryotic transposable elements

    Thomas Wicker;François Sabot;Aurélie Hua-Van;Jeffrey L. Bennetzen

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

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

  • Early allopolyploid evolution in the post-Neolithic Brassica napus oilseed genome

    Boulos Chalhoub;Shengyi Liu;Isobel A.P. Parkin

  • The genome of the mesopolyploid crop species Brassica rapa

    Xiaowu Wang;Hanzhong Wang;Jun Wang;Jun Wang;Jun Wang

  • Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

    John P. Vogel;David F. Garvin;Todd C. Mockler;Jeremy Schmutz

  • The Brassica oleracea genome reveals the asymmetrical evolution of polyploid genomes

    Shengyi Liu;Yumei Liu;Xinhua Yang;Chaobo Tong

  • The transcriptional landscape of polyploid wheat

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

  • A putative Ca2+ and calmodulin-dependent protein kinase required for bacterial and fungal symbioses.

    Julien Lévy;Cécile Bres;René Geurts;Boulos Chalhoub

  • Transcriptome and methylome profiling reveals relics of genome dominance in the mesopolyploid Brassica oleracea.

    Isobel Ap Parkin;Chushin Koh;Haibao Tang;Stephen J Robinson

  • Molecular Basis of Evolutionary Events That Shaped the Hardness Locus in Diploid and Polyploid Wheat Species (Triticum and Aegilops)

    Nathalie Chantret;Jérôme Salse;François Sabot;Sadequr Rahman

  • A universal classification of eukaryotic transposable elements implemented in Repbase

    Thomas Wicker;François Sabot;Aurélie Hua-Van;Jeffrey L. Bennetzen

  • A workshop report on wheat genome sequencing: international genome research on wheat consortium

    B.S. Gill;R. Appels;A.M. Botha-Oberholster;C.R. Buell

  • Cloning of the wheat Yr15 resistance gene sheds light on the plant tandem kinase-pseudokinase family

    Valentina Klymiuk;Elitsur Yaniv;Lin Huang;Lin Huang;Dina Raats;Dina Raats

  • The first meiosis of resynthesized Brassica napus, a genome blender.

    E. Szadkowski;F. Eber;V. Huteau;M. Lode

  • Impact of transposable elements on the organization and function of allopolyploid genomes

    Christian Parisod;Christian Parisod;Karine Alix;Jérémy Just;Maud Petit

  • The high-quality genome of Brassica napus cultivar 'ZS11' reveals the introgression history in semi-winter morphotype.

    Fengming Sun;Guangyi Fan;Qiong Hu;Yongming Zhou

  • Homoeologous exchange is a major cause of gene presence/absence variation in the amphidiploid Brassica napus

    Bhavna Hurgobin;Bhavna Hurgobin;Agnieszka A. Golicz;Philipp E. Bayer;Chon‐Kit Kenneth Chan

  • Duplication and partitioning in evolution and function of homoeologous Q loci governing domestication characters in polyploid wheat.

    Zengcui Zhang;Harry Belcram;Piotr Gornicki;Mathieu Charles

  • Acc homoeoloci and the evolution of wheat genomes

    D. Chalupska;H. Y. Lee;J. D. Faris;A. Evrard

  • Dissecting large and complex genomes: flow sorting and BAC cloning of individual chromosomes from bread wheat

    Jan Šafář;Jan Bartoš;Jaroslav Janda;Arnaud Bellec

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel Caboche
Michel Caboche INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Graham J.W. King
Graham J.W. King University of Western Ontario
Ian Bancroft
Ian Bancroft University of York
Jinling Meng
Jinling Meng Huazhong Agricultural University
Pierre Sourdille
Pierre Sourdille University of Clermont Auvergne
Isobel A. P. Parkin
Isobel A. P. Parkin Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Jérôme Salse
Jérôme Salse INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Alan H. Schulman
Alan H. Schulman University of Helsinki
Haibao Tang
Haibao Tang Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Andrew H. Paterson
Andrew H. Paterson University of Georgia

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