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Hélène Bergès is affiliated with INRAE, the Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. The research work spans several main fields, including Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Specific subfields of focus include Plant Science, Molecular Biology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work concentrates on multiple topics related to plant biology and genetics such as:

  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Horticultural and Viticultural Research
  • Plant and animal studies

Frequent publication venues for the scientist include Nature Communications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Genome Biology and Evolution, Genome biology, and The Plant Genome. The most recurrent venue is Nature Communications with three publications.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by the scientist cover various aspects of plant genomics, genetics, and disease resistance. These include:

  • High-quality genome sequence of white lupin provides insight into soil exploration and seed quality (2020, Nature Communications)
  • A wheat cysteine-rich receptor-like kinase confers broad-spectrum resistance against Septoria tritici blotch (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Fonio millet genome unlocks African orphan crop diversity for agriculture in a changing climate (2020, Nature Communications)
  • A Repertory of Rearrangements and the Loss of an Inverted Repeat Region in Passiflora Chloroplast Genomes (2020, Genome Biology and Evolution)
  • The wild grape genome sequence provides insights into the transition from dioecy to hermaphroditism during grape domestication (2020, Genome biology)

Frequent collaborators include Stéphane Cauet, Zirlane Portugal da Costa, Maria Lúcia Carneiro Vieira, Erika Sallet, and Luiz Augusto Cauz-Santos. Collaboration counts with these coauthors range from three to four documented joint works.

Best Publications

  • The tomato genome sequence provides insights into fleshy fruit evolution

    Shusei Sato;Satoshi Tabata;Hideki Hirakawa;Erika Asamizu

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

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

  • A physical, genetic and functional sequence assembly of the barley genome

    Klaus F.X. Mayer;Robbie Waugh;Peter Langridge;Timothy J. Close

  • The Medicago genome provides insight into the evolution of rhizobial symbioses

    Nevin D Young;Frédéric Debellé;Frédéric Debellé;Giles E D Oldroyd;Rene Geurts

  • The sunflower genome provides insights into oil metabolism, flowering and Asterid evolution

    Hélène Badouin;Jérôme Gouzy;Christopher J. Grassa;Christopher J. Grassa;Florent Murat

  • Structural and functional partitioning of bread wheat chromosome 3B.

    Frédéric Choulet;Adriana Alberti;Sébastien Theil;Natasha Glover

  • A Physical Map of the 1-Gigabase Bread Wheat Chromosome 3B

    Etienne Paux;Pierre Sourdille;Jérôme Salse;Cyrille Saintenac

  • Oak genome reveals facets of long lifespan.

    Christophe Plomion;Jean-Marc Aury;Joëlle Amselem;Thibault Leroy

  • A mosaic monoploid reference sequence for the highly complex genome of sugarcane

    Olivier Garsmeur;Olivier Garsmeur;Gaëtan Droc;Gaëtan Droc;Rudie Antonise;Jane Grimwood

  • Whole-genome landscape of Medicago truncatula symbiotic genes

    Yann Pecrix;S Evan Staton;Erika Sallet;Christine Lelandais-Brière;Christine Lelandais-Brière

  • Global changes in gene expression in Sinorhizobium meliloti 1021 under microoxic and symbiotic conditions.

    Anke Becker;Hélène Bergès;Elizaveta Krol;Claude Bruand

  • Wheat receptor-kinase-like protein Stb6 controls gene-for-gene resistance to fungal pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici.

    Cyrille Saintenac;Wing-Sham Lee;Florence Cambon;Jason J Rudd

  • The wheat Sr50 gene reveals rich diversity at a cereal disease resistance locus.

    Rohit Mago;Peng Zhang;Sonia Vautrin;Hana Šimková

  • Loss of pollen‐specific phospholipase NOT LIKE DAD triggers gynogenesis in maize

    Laurine M Gilles;Abdelsabour Khaled;Jean‐Baptiste Laffaire;Sandrine Chaignon

  • FRIZZY PANICLE drives supernumerary spikelets in bread wheat.

    Oxana Dobrovolskaya;Caroline Pont;Richard Sibout;Petr Martinek

  • A Metabolic Gene Cluster in the Wheat W1 and the Barley Cer-cqu Loci Determines β-Diketone Biosynthesis and Glaucousness

    Shelly Hen-Avivi;Orna Savin;Radu C. Racovita;Wing Sham Lee

  • Decoding the oak genome: public release of sequence data, assembly, annotation and publication strategies

    Christophe Plomion;Christophe Plomion;Jean-Marc Aury;Joëlle Amselem;Tina Alaeitabar

  • Building the sugarcane genome for biotechnology and identifying evolutionary trends

    Nathalia de Setta;Nathalia de Setta;Cláudia Barros Monteiro-Vitorello;Cushla Jane Metcalfe;Guilherme Marcelo Queiroga Cruz

  • The sugarcane genome challenge: strategies for sequencing a highly complex genome.

    Glaucia Mendes Souza;Helene Berges;Stephanie Bocs;Rosanne Casu

  • Suppressed recombination and unique candidate genes in the divergent haplotype encoding Fhb1, a major Fusarium head blight resistance locus in wheat

    W. Schweiger;B. Steiner;S. Vautrin;T. Nussbaumer

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaroslav Doležel
Jaroslav Doležel Czech Academy of Sciences
Hana Šimková
Hana Šimková Czech Academy of Sciences
Patrick Wincker
Patrick Wincker University of Paris-Saclay
Catherine Feuillet
Catherine Feuillet Bayer (Germany)
Angélique D'Hont
Angélique D'Hont University of Montpellier
Arnaud Couloux
Arnaud Couloux French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Etienne Paux
Etienne Paux University of Clermont Auvergne
Jérôme Salse
Jérôme Salse INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jérôme Gouzy
Jérôme Gouzy Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Pierre Sourdille
Pierre Sourdille University of Clermont Auvergne

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