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Marc-Henri Lebrun is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions also in Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these broader fields, their work delves into specialized subfields such as Plant Science, Cell Biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Endocrinology.

The scientist's main topics of research include Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology, Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics, Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food, Fungal and Yeast Genetics Research, and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics.

Marc-Henri Lebrun has published notable research papers, including:

  • A thousand-genome panel retraces the global spread and adaptation of a major fungal crop pathogen, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Major changes in grapevine wood microbiota are associated with the onset of esca, a devastating trunk disease, 2020, Environmental Microbiology
  • Infection cushions of Fusarium graminearum are fungal arsenals for wheat infection, 2020, Molecular Plant Pathology
  • Blocked at the Stomatal Gate, a Key Step of Wheat Stb16q-Mediated Resistance to Zymoseptoria tritici, 2022, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Low Amplitude Boom-and-Bust Cycles Define the Septoria Nodorum Blotch Interaction, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science

The scientist frequently publishes in scientific venues such as Molecular Plant Pathology, Frontiers in Plant Science, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Fungi, and Nature Communications.

Collaborations with other researchers are an integral part of their work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Yohann Petit
  • Alice Feurtey
  • Igor V. Grigoriev
  • Stephen B. Goodwin
  • Anne Génissel

Best Publications

  • The genome sequence of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea

    Ralph A. Dean;Nicholas J. Talbot;Daniel J. Ebbole;Mark L. Farman

  • Genomic Analysis of the Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea

    Joelle Amselem;Christina A. Cuomo;Jan A. L. van Kan;Muriel Viaud

  • Lifestyle transitions in plant pathogenic Colletotrichum fungi deciphered by genome and transcriptome analyses

    Richard J. O'Connell;Michael R. Thon;Stéphane Hacquard;Stefan G. Amyotte

  • Genome expansion and gene loss in powdery mildew fungi reveal tradeoffs in extreme parasitism

    Pietro D. Spanu;James C. Abbott;Joelle Amselem;Timothy A. Burgis

  • Périgord black truffle genome uncovers evolutionary origins and mechanisms of symbiosis

    Francis Martin;Annegret Kohler;Claude Murat;Raffaella Balestrini

  • Emergence of wheat blast in Bangladesh was caused by a South American lineage of Magnaporthe oryzae.

    M. Tofazzal Islam;Daniel Croll;Pierre Gladieux;Darren M. Soanes

  • A Putative Polyketide Synthase/Peptide Synthetase from Magnaporthe grisea Signals Pathogen Attack to Resistant Rice

    Heidi U. Böhnert;Isabelle Fudal;Waly Dioh;Didier Tharreau

  • Origins of host-specific populations of the blast pathogen, Magnaporthe oryzae, in crop domestication with subsequent expansion of pandemic clones on rice and weeds of rice

    Brett C. Couch;Isabelle Fudal;Marc-Henri Lebrun;Didier Tharreau

  • Shifting the paradigm from pathogens to pathobiome: new concepts in the light of meta-omics.

    Muriel Vayssier-Taussat;Emmanuel Albina;Christine Citti;Jean-FranÒ«ois Cosson

  • Plant secretome: unlocking secrets of the secreted proteins.

    Ganesh Kumar Agrawal;Nam-Soo Jwa;Marc-Henri Lebrun;Dominique Job

  • Comparative genomics of MAP kinase and calcium-calcineurin signalling components in plant and human pathogenic fungi.

    Nicolas Rispail;Darren M Soanes;Cemile Ant;Robert Czajkowski

  • Discrimination of mango fruit maturity by volatiles using the electronic nose and gas chromatography

    Marc Lebrun;Anne Plotto;Kevin L. Goodner;Marie-Noelle Ducamp

  • Resolving the polyphyletic nature of Pyricularia (Pyriculariaceae)

    S. Klaubauf;D. Tharreau;E. Fournier;J.Z. Groenewald

  • Evidence for horizontal transfer of a secondary metabolite gene cluster between fungi

    Nora Khaldi;Jérôme Collemare;Marc-Henri Lebrun;Kenneth H Wolfe

  • Susceptibility of rice to the blast fungus, Magnaporthe grisea

    Cécile Ribot;Judith Hirsch;Sandrine Balzergue;Didier Tharreau

  • Identification and fine mapping of Pi33, the rice resistance gene corresponding to the Magnaporthe grisea avirulence gene ACE1

    Romain Berruyer;Henri Adreit;Joëlle Milazzo;Sylvain Gaillard

  • Gain of virulence caused by insertion of a Pot3 transposon in a Magnaporthe grisea avirulence gene.

    Seogchan Kang;Marc Henri Lebrun;Leonard Farrall;Barbara Valent

  • Assessing the Performance of Single-Copy Genes for Recovering Robust Phylogenies

    G. Aguileta;G. Aguileta;S. Marthey;H. Chiapello;M.-H. Lebrun

  • Gene Flow between Divergent Cereal- and Grass-Specific Lineages of the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

    Pierre Gladieux;Bradford Condon;Sebastien Ravel;Darren Soanes

  • PLS1, a gene encoding a tetraspanin-like protein, is required for penetration of rice leaf by the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe grisea

    Pierre-Henri Clergeot;Mathieu Gourgues;Joaquim Cots;F. Laurans

Frequent Co-Authors

Didier Tharreau
Didier Tharreau Montpellier SupAgro
Joelle Amselem
Joelle Amselem INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Elisabeth Fournier
Elisabeth Fournier Montpellier SupAgro
Nicholas J. Talbot
Nicholas J. Talbot University of East Anglia
Hadi Quesneville
Hadi Quesneville University of Paris-Saclay
Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
Richard O'Connell
Richard O'Connell University of Paris-Saclay
Ronald P. de Vries
Ronald P. de Vries Utrecht University
Pierre Gladieux
Pierre Gladieux University of Montpellier
Francis Martin
Francis Martin University of Lorraine

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