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Guillaume Besnard

Guillaume Besnard

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
58
Citations
9877
World Ranking
2615
National Ranking
109

Overview

Guillaume Besnard is affiliated with Paul Sabatier University in France and has contributed extensively to research within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their research encompasses several subfields, including Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Organic Chemistry.

Key topics addressed in their work include:

  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
  • Edible Oils Quality and Analysis
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna

The scientist has published research in a variety of academic venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Botany Letters

They have collaborated frequently with other researchers, including Sophie Manzi, Cynthia Hong-Wa, Maria S. Vorontsova, Jordi Salmona, and Julia Dupin.

Examples of recent papers authored or co-authored by Guillaume Besnard include:

  • Genome structure and content of the rice root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne graminicola), 2020, Ecology and Evolution
  • Resolving the Phylogeny of the Olive Family (Oleaceae): Confronting Information from Organellar and Nuclear Genomes, 2020, Genes
  • Climate change threatens olive oil production in the Levant, 2023, Nature Plants
  • SILVOLIVE, a Germplasm Collection of Wild Subspecies With High Genetic Variability as a Source of Rootstocks and Resistance Genes for Olive Breeding, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Phylogenomics indicates the "living fossil" Isoetes diversified in the Cenozoic, 2020, PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • Oligocene CO2 decline promoted C4 photosynthesis in grasses.

    Pascal-Antoine Christin;Guillaume Besnard;Emanuela Samaritani;Melvin R. Duvall

  • The complex history of the olive tree: from Late Quaternary diversification of Mediterranean lineages to primary domestication in the northern Levant

    G. Besnard;G. Besnard;B. Khadari;M. Navascués;M. Fernández-Mazuecos

  • Anatomical enablers and the evolution of C4 photosynthesis in grasses

    Pascal-Antoine Christin;Colin P. Osborne;David S. Chatelet;J. Travis Columbus

  • Genetic relationships in the olive (Olea europaea L.) reflect multilocal selection of cultivars

    G. Besnard;Philippe Baradat;A. Bervillé

  • Primary domestication and early uses of the emblematic olive tree: palaeobotanical, historical and molecular evidence from the Middle East.

    David Kaniewski;David Kaniewski;Elise Van Campo;Elise Van Campo;Tom Boiy;Jean-Frédéric Terral

  • C4 Photosynthesis Evolved in Grasses via Parallel Adaptive Genetic Changes

    Pascal-Antoine Christin;Nicolas Salamin;Vincent Savolainen;Melvin R. Duvall

  • A first linkage map of olive (Olea europaea L.) cultivars using RAPD, AFLP, RFLP and SSR markers

    R la Rosa;A Angiolillo;C Guerrero;M Pellegrini

  • Causes and evolutionary significance of genetic convergence

    Pascal-Antoine Christin;Daniel M. Weinreich;Guillaume Besnard

  • Multiple origins for Mediterranean olive (Olea europaea L. ssp. europaea) based upon mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms

    Guillaume Besnard;André Bervillé

  • Olea europaea (Oleaceae) phylogeography based on chloroplast DNA polymorphism.

    G. Besnard;Bouchaib Khadari;Philippe Baradat;A. Bervillé

  • Phylogenomics of C4 Photosynthesis in Sedges (Cyperaceae): Multiple Appearances and Genetic Convergence

    Guillaume Besnard;A. Muthama Muasya;Flavien Russier;Eric H. Roalson

  • Phylogenetics of Olea (Oleaceae) based on plastid and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences: tertiary climatic shifts and lineage differentiation times.

    Guillaume Besnard;Guillaume Besnard;Rafael Rubio de Casas;Pascal-Antoine Christin;Pablo Vargas

  • Cytoplasmic male sterility in the olive (Olea europaea L.)

    G. Besnard;B. Khadari;P. Villemur;A. Bervillé

  • Plastid and nuclear DNA polymorphism reveals historical processes of isolation and reticulation in the olive tree complex (Olea europaea)

    G. Besnard;R. Rubio de Casas;R. Rubio de Casas;P. Vargas

  • The use of molecular markers for germplasm management in a French olive collection.

    Khadari B;Breton C;Moutier N;Roger Jp

  • Evolutionary Switch and Genetic Convergence on rbcL following the Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis

    Pascal-Antoine Christin;Nicolas Salamin;A. Muthama Muasya;Eric H. Roalson

  • Genomic profiling of plastid DNA variation in the Mediterranean olive tree.

    Guillaume Besnard;Guillaume Besnard;Pilar Hernández;Bouchaib Khadari;Gabriel Dorado

  • Adaptive Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis through Recurrent Lateral Gene Transfer

    Pascal-Antoine Christin;Erika J. Edwards;Guillaume Besnard;Susanna F. Boxall

  • Cultivar Identification in Olive Based on RAPD Markers

    Guillaume Besnard;Catherine Breton;Philippe Baradat;Bouchaib Khadari

  • Madagascar's grasses and grasslands:anthropogenic or natural?

    Maria S. Vorontsova;Guillaume Besnard;Félix Forest;Panagiota Malakasi

  • Genome skimming by shotgun sequencing helps resolve the phylogeny of a pantropical tree family

    Pierre-Jean G. Malé;Pierre-Jean G. Malé;Léa Bardon;Guillaume Besnard;Eric Coissac

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascal-Antoine Christin
Pascal-Antoine Christin University of Sheffield
Nicolas Salamin
Nicolas Salamin University of Lausanne
Colin P. Osborne
Colin P. Osborne University of Sheffield
Caroline E. R. Lehmann
Caroline E. R. Lehmann University of Edinburgh
Vincent Savolainen
Vincent Savolainen Imperial College London
Sylvain Glémin
Sylvain Glémin University of Rennes
Antoine Guisan
Antoine Guisan University of Lausanne
Ilia J. Leitch
Ilia J. Leitch Royal Botanic Gardens
Elizabeth A. Kellogg
Elizabeth A. Kellogg Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Oriane Hidalgo
Oriane Hidalgo Royal Botanic Gardens

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