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Dominique Roby is affiliated with INRAE, the Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong subfield focus on Plant Science.

Their work covers a range of topics related to plant biology, with notable emphasis on:

  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Transgenic Plants and Applications
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls

Roby has contributed to diverse publication venues, among which the following are frequent:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Plant Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • New Phytologist
  • Frontiers in Plant Science

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Roby include:

  • Fabrice Roux
  • Florent Delplace
  • Carine Huard-Chauveau
  • Marie Invernizzi
  • Mathieu Hanemian

Among recent significant papers authored or coauthored by Roby are:

  • "Network organization of the plant immune system: from pathogen perception to robust defense induction" (2021) published in The Plant Journal
  • "Robustness of plant quantitative disease resistance is provided by a decentralized immune network" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "PERKing up our understanding of the proline-rich extensin-like receptor kinases, a forgotten plant receptor kinase family" (2022) published in New Phytologist
  • "Toward Unifying Evolutionary Ecology and Genomics to Understand Positive Plant-Plant Interactions Within Wild Species" (2021) published in Frontiers in Plant Science
  • "The Arabidopsis leucine rich repeat receptor-like kinase MIK2 interacts with RKS1 and participates to the control of quantitative disease resistance to the bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas campestris" (2024) published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Roby is also an author of the book titled L'immunité des plantes: Pour des cultures résistantes aux maladies, published in 2021 by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Best Publications

  • Lesion mimic mutants: keys for deciphering cell death and defense pathways in plants?

    Séverine Lorrain;Fabienne Vailleau;Claudine Balagué;Dominique Roby

  • The Transcription Factors WRKY11 and WRKY17 Act as Negative Regulators of Basal Resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Noëllie Journot-Catalino;Imre E. Somssich;Dominique Roby;Thomas Kroj

  • Overexpression of Arabidopsis ECERIFERUM1 Promotes Wax Very-Long-Chain Alkane Biosynthesis and Influences Plant Response to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses

    Brice Bourdenx;Amélie Bernard;Frédéric Domergue;Stéphanie Pascal

  • A MYB Transcription Factor Regulates Very-Long-Chain Fatty Acid Biosynthesis for Activation of the Hypersensitive Cell Death Response in Arabidopsis

    Sylvain Raffaele;Fabienne Vailleau;Amandine Léger;Jérôme Joubès

  • HLM1, an Essential Signaling Component in the Hypersensitive Response, Is a Member of the Cyclic Nucleotide–Gated Channel Ion Channel Family

    Claudine Balagué;Baiqing Lin;Carine Alcon;Guylaine Flottes

  • Cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenases-C and D, key enzymes in lignin biosynthesis, play an essential role in disease resistance in Arabidopsis.

    Maurice Tronchet;Claudine Balagué;Thomas Kroj;Lise Jouanin

  • A R2R3-MYB gene, AtMYB30, acts as a positive regulator of the hypersensitive cell death program in plants in response to pathogen attack.

    Fabienne Vailleau;Xavier Daniel;Maurice Tronchet;Jean-Luc Montillet

  • Two cinnamoyl-CoA reductase (CCR) genes from Arabidopsis thaliana are differentially expressed during development and in response to infection with pathogenic bacteria.

    Virginie Lauvergeat;Christophe Lacomme;Eric Lacombe;Eric Lasserre

  • RAPID INDUCTION BY WOUNDING AND BACTERIAL INFECTION OF AN S GENE FAMILY RECEPTOR-LIKE KINASE GENE IN BRASSICA OLERACEA

    M Pastuglia;D Roby;C Dumas;J M Cock

  • hsr203J, a tobacco gene whose activation is rapid, highly localized and specific for incompatible plant/pathogen interactions

    Dominique Pontier;Laurence Godiard;Yves Marco;Dominique Roby

  • Markers for hypersensitive response and senescence show distinct patterns of expression.

    Dominique Pontier;Susheng Gan;Richard M. Amasino;Dominique Roby

  • Chitin oligosaccharides as elicitors of chitinase activity in melon plants

    Dominique Roby;Andrée Gadelle;Alain Toppan

  • Further progress towards a catalogue of all Arabidopsis genes: analysis of a set of 5000 non-redundant ESTs.

    Richard Cooke;Monique Raynal;Michele Laudie;Francoise Grellet

  • Pathogen-Induced Elicitin Production in Transgenic Tobacco Generates a Hypersensitive Response and Nonspecific Disease Resistance

    Harald Keller;Nicole Pamboukdjian;Michel Ponchet;Alain Poupet

  • Secretome analysis reveals effector candidates associated with broad host range necrotrophy in the fungal plant pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.

    Koanna Guyon;Koanna Guyon;Claudine Balagué;Claudine Balagué;Dominique Roby;Dominique Roby;Sylvain Raffaele;Sylvain Raffaele

  • Activation of hsr203, a Plant Gene Expressed During Incompatible Plant-Pathogen Interactions, Is Correlated with Programmed Cell Death

    Dominique Pontier;Maurice Tronchet;Peter Rogowsky;Eric Lam

  • Arabidopsis ubiquitin ligase MIEL1 mediates degradation of the transcription factor MYB30 weakening plant defence

    Daniel Marino;Solène Froidure;Solène Froidure;Joanne Canonne;Joanne Canonne;Sara Ben Khaled;Sara Ben Khaled;Sara Ben Khaled

  • The Arabidopsis patatin-like protein 2 (PLP2) plays an essential role in cell death execution and differentially affects biosynthesis of oxylipins and resistance to pathogens.

    Sylvain La La Camera;Claudine Balagué;Cornelia Göbel;Pierrette Geoffroy

  • An essential role for salicylic acid in AtMYB30-mediated control of the hypersensitive cell death program in Arabidopsis

    Sylvain Raffaele;Susana Rivas;Dominique Roby

  • Nitric oxide participates in the complex interplay of defense-related signaling pathways controlling disease resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Laure Perchepied;Claudine Balagué;Catherine Riou;Clotilde Claudel-Renard

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie-Thérèse Esquerré-Tugayé
Marie-Thérèse Esquerré-Tugayé Paul Sabatier University
Dominique Pontier
Dominique Pontier Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Michel Delseny
Michel Delseny University of Perpignan
Sylvain Raffaele
Sylvain Raffaele INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Michel Ponchet
Michel Ponchet INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Alain Jauneau
Alain Jauneau Paul Sabatier University
Joy Bergelson
Joy Bergelson University of Chicago
Claudia Köhler
Claudia Köhler Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Christian Dumas
Christian Dumas École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Michel Rossignol
Michel Rossignol INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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