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Etienne Yergeau is affiliated with the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus also on Environmental Science.

The subfields Yergeau has contributed to include:

  • Plant Science
  • Ecology
  • Soil Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Agronomy and Crop Science

The main topics of their work cover various aspects of plant and microbial interactions, ecology, and soil science. These topics include:

  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology

Yergeau's research has been published across several venues, with frequent contributions to the following journals and platforms:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ISME Communications
  • Applied Soil Ecology

Their recent publications include:

  • Home-based microbial solution to boost crop growth in low-fertility soil, 2023, New Phytologist
  • Rhizospheric Plant-Microbe Interactions: miRNAs as a Key Mediator, 2020, Trends in Plant Science
  • Four decades of soil water stress history together with host genotype constrain the response of the wheat microbiome to soil moisture, 2020, FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • A Gaseous Milieu: Extending the Boundaries of the Rhizosphere, 2020, Trends in Microbiology
  • Plant Compartments and Developmental Stages Modulate the Balance between Niche-Based and Neutral Processes in Soybean Microbiome, 2021, Microbial Ecology

Over their career, Yergeau has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Julien Tremblay
  • Hamed Azarbad
  • Jessica Dozois
  • Marc St-Arnaud
  • Sara Correa-García

Best Publications

  • Soil characteristics more strongly influence soil bacterial communities than land‐use type

    Eiko E. Kuramae;Etienne Yergeau;Lina C. Wong;Agata S. Pijl

  • Shifts in soil microorganisms in response to warming are consistent across a range of Antarctic environments.

    Etienne Yergeau;Stef Bokhorst;Sanghoon Kang;Jizhong Zhou

  • The functional potential of high Arctic permafrost revealed by metagenomic sequencing, qPCR and microarray analyses.

    Etienne Yergeau;Etienne Yergeau;Hervé Hogues;Lyle G Whyte;Charles W Greer

  • Patterns of bacterial diversity across a range of Antarctic terrestrial habitats.

    Etienne Yergeau;Kevin K. Newsham;David A. Pearce;George A. Kowalchuk

  • Functional microarray analysis of nitrogen and carbon cycling genes across an Antarctic latitudinal transect.

    Etienne Yergeau;Sanghoon Kang;Zhili He;Jizhong Zhou

  • Metagenomic Analysis of the Bioremediation of Diesel-Contaminated Canadian High Arctic Soils

    Etienne Yergeau;Sylvie Sanschagrin;Danielle Beaumier;Charles W. Greer

  • Size and structure of bacterial, fungal and nematode communities along an Antarctic environmental gradient

    Etienne Yergeau;Stef Bokhorst;Ad H.L. Huiskes;Henricus T.S. Boschker

  • Next-generation sequencing of microbial communities in the Athabasca River and its tributaries in relation to oil sands mining activities.

    Etienne Yergeau;John R. Lawrence;Sylvie Sanschagrin;Marley J. Waiser

  • Microbial expression profiles in the rhizosphere of willows depend on soil contamination

    Etienne Yergeau;Sylvie Sanschagrin;Christine Maynard;Marc St-Arnaud

  • Linkage between bacterial and fungal rhizosphere communities in hydrocarbon-contaminated soils is related to plant phylogeny.

    Terrence H Bell;Saad El-Din Hassan;Aurélien Lauron-Moreau;Fahad Al-Otaibi

  • Predictable bacterial composition and hydrocarbon degradation in Arctic soils following diesel and nutrient disturbance

    Terrence H Bell;Etienne Yergeau;Christine Maynard;David Juck

  • Harnessing phytomicrobiome signaling for rhizosphere microbiome engineering.

    Liliana Quiza;Liliana Quiza;Marc St-Arnaud;Etienne Yergeau

  • Responses of Antarctic soil microbial communities and associated functions to temperature and freeze–thaw cycle frequency

    Etienne Yergeau;George A. Kowalchuk

  • Increasing phytoremediation efficiency and reliability using novel omics approaches

    Terrence H. Bell;Simon Joly;Frédéric E. Pitre;Etienne Yergeau

  • Environmental microarray analyses of Antarctic soil microbial communities

    Etienne Yergeau;Sung A Schoondermark-Stolk;Eoin L Brodie;Sébastien Déjean

  • "Omics" Insights into PAH Degradation toward Improved Green Remediation Biotechnologies.

    Abdelhak El Amrani;Anne-Sophie Dumas;Lukas Y Wick;Etienne Yergeau

  • Temperature adaptation of soil bacterial communities along an Antarctic climate gradient: predicting responses to climate warming

    Riikka Rinnan;Riikka Rinnan;Johannes Rousk;Etienne Yergeau;George A. Kowalchuk

  • Chemical dispersants enhance the activity of oil- and gas condensate-degrading marine bacteria

    Julien Tremblay;Etienne Yergeau;Nathalie Fortin;Susan Cobanli

  • Identification of Nitrogen-Incorporating Bacteria in Petroleum-Contaminated Arctic Soils by Using [15N]DNA-Based Stable Isotope Probing and Pyrosequencing

    Terrence H. Bell;Etienne Yergeau;Christine Martineau;Christine Martineau;David Juck

  • Microarray and real-time PCR analyses of the responses of high-arctic soil bacteria to hydrocarbon pollution and bioremediation treatments.

    Etienne Yergeau;Etienne Yergeau;Mélanie Arbour;Roland Brousseau;David Juck

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles W. Greer
Charles W. Greer National Research Council Canada
Marc St-Arnaud
Marc St-Arnaud University of Montreal
George A. Kowalchuk
George A. Kowalchuk Utrecht University
Lyle G. Whyte
Lyle G. Whyte McGill University
John R. Lawrence
John R. Lawrence Environment and Climate Change Canada
Luke D. Bainard
Luke D. Bainard Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Kenneth Lee
Kenneth Lee Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Armand Séguin
Armand Séguin Natural Resources Canada
Chantal Hamel
Chantal Hamel Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Hugues Lantuit
Hugues Lantuit University of Potsdam

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