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Pierre Gladieux is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work spans several key subfields, including Plant Science, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. They have contributed to research topics such as Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food, Fungal and Yeast Genetics Research, Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies, Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics, and Plant Virus Research Studies.

Gladieux has authored multiple papers with a focus on fungal pathogens, particularly the rice blast fungus Pyricularia oryzae. Notable recent publications include:

  • Maintenance of divergent lineages of the Rice Blast Fungus Pyricularia oryzae through niche separation, loss of sex and post-mating genetic incompatibilities (2022, PLoS Pathogens)
  • Adaptive evolution in virulence effectors of the rice blast fungus Pyricularia oryzae (2023, PLoS Pathogens)
  • Genome-scale phylogeny and comparative genomics of the fungal order Sordariales (2023, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution)
  • Tracing the Origin and Evolutionary History of Pyricularia oryzae Infecting Maize and Barnyard Grass (2020, Phytopathology)
  • Pyricularia oryzae: Lab star and field scourge (2024, Molecular Plant Pathology)

Their frequent co-authors include Sandrine Cros-Arteil, Thomas Kroj, Sébastien Ravel, Florian Charriat, and Elisabeth Fournier, with multiple joint publications indicating ongoing collaborative research efforts.

Gladieux's work is regularly published in a variety of venues, reflecting their focus on fungal pathogens and related disciplines. The most frequent publication venues for their research are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), PLoS Pathogens, Phytopathology, and PLoS Genetics.

Best Publications

  • New insight into the history of domesticated apple: secondary contribution of the European wild apple to the genome of cultivated varieties.

    Amandine Cornille;Amandine Cornille;Amandine Cornille;Pierre Gladieux;Pierre Gladieux;Pierre Gladieux;Marinus J. M. Smulders;Isabel Roldán-Ruiz

  • 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

  • The domestication and evolutionary ecology of apples

    Amandine Cornille;Amandine Cornille;Tatiana Giraud;Tatiana Giraud;Marinus J.M. Smulders;Isabel Roldán-Ruiz

  • Origin, migration routes and worldwide population genetic structure of the wheat yellow rust pathogen Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici.

    Sajid Ali;Pierre Gladieux;Pierre Gladieux;Marc Leconte;Angélique Gautier

  • Linking the emergence of fungal plant diseases with ecological speciation

    Tatiana Giraud;Pierre Gladieux;Sergey Gavrilets

  • Fungal evolutionary genomics provides insight into the mechanisms of adaptive divergence in eukaryotes.

    Pierre Gladieux;Pierre Gladieux;Pierre Gladieux;Jeanne Ropars;Jeanne Ropars;Hélène Badouin;Hélène Badouin;Antoine Branca;Antoine Branca

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

    Pierre Gladieux;Bradford Condon;Sebastien Ravel;Darren Soanes

  • The population biology of fungal invasions.

    Pierre Gladieux;Pierre Gladieux;Alice Feurtey;Alice Feurtey;Michael E. Hood;Alodie Snirc;Alodie Snirc

  • On the Origin and Spread of the Scab Disease of Apple: Out of Central Asia

    Pierre Gladieux;Xiu-Guo Zhang;Damien Afoufa-Bastien;Rosa-Maria Valdebenito Sanhueza

  • Genetic isolation between two recently diverged populations of a symbiotic fungus.

    Sara Branco;Pierre Gladieux;Christopher E. Ellison;Alan Kuo

  • Inferring the contribution of sexual reproduction, migration and off-season survival to the temporal maintenance of microbial populations: a case study on the wheat fungal pathogen Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici

    Sajid Ali;Sajid Ali;Sajid Ali;Pierre Gladieux;Pierre Gladieux;Hidayatur Rahman;Muhammad S. Saqib

  • Evolution of the population structure of Venturia inaequalis, the apple scab fungus, associated with the domestication of its host

    Pierre Gladieux;Xiu-Guo Zhang;Isabel Róldan-Ruiz;Valérie Caffier

  • Distribution of the anther‐smut pathogen Microbotryum on species of the Caryophyllaceae

    Michael E. Hood;Jorge I. Mena‐Alí;Amanda K. Gibson;Bengt Oxelman

  • Maintenance of Fungal Pathogen Species That Are Specialized to Different Hosts: Allopatric Divergence and Introgression through Secondary Contact

    Pierre Gladieux;Elodie Vercken;Michael C Fontaine;Michael E Hood

  • Distinct invasion sources of common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) in Eastern and Western Europe

    Pierre Gladieux;Pierre Gladieux;Pierre Gladieux;Tatiana Giraud;Tatiana Giraud;Tatiana Giraud;Levente Kiss;Benjamin J. Genton;Benjamin J. Genton;Benjamin J. Genton

  • Glacial refugia in pathogens: European genetic structure of anther smut pathogens on Silene latifolia and Silene dioica.

    Elodie Vercken;Michael C. Fontaine;Pierre Gladieux;Michael E. Hood

  • Coexistence of multiple endemic and pandemic lineages of the rice blast pathogen

    Pierre Gladieux;Sébastien Ravel;Adrien Rieux;Sandrine Cros-Arteil

  • Postglacial recolonization history of the European crabapple (Malus sylvestris Mill.), a wild contributor to the domesticated apple

    A Cornille;A Cornille;A Cornille;T Giraud;T Giraud;T Giraud;C Bellard;C Bellard;C Bellard;A Tellier

  • NLR surveillance of essential SEC-9 SNARE proteins induces programmed cell death upon allorecognition in filamentous fungi.

    Jens Heller;Jens Heller;Corinne Clavé;Pierre Gladieux;Sven J Saupe

  • The genetic structure of the plant pathogenic fungus Melampsora larici-populina on its wild host is extensively impacted by host domestication.

    Constance Xhaard;Bénédicte Fabre;Axelle Andrieux;P. Gladieux

  • Emergence of novel fungal pathogens by ecological speciation: importance of the reduced viability of immigrants

    Pierre Gladieux;Fabien Guérin;Tatiana Giraud;Valérie Caffier;Valérie Caffier

  • Widespread selective sweeps throughout the genome of model plant pathogenic fungi and identification of effector candidates

    H Badouin;P Gladieux;P Gladieux;J Gouzy;J Gouzy;S Siguenza;S Siguenza

  • Pathogen effectors and plant immunity determine specialization of the blast fungus to rice subspecies

    Jingjing Liao;Huichuan Huang;Isabelle Meusnier;Henri Adreit

Frequent Co-Authors

Tatiana Giraud
Tatiana Giraud University of Paris-Saclay
Elisabeth Fournier
Elisabeth Fournier Montpellier SupAgro
Didier Tharreau
Didier Tharreau Montpellier SupAgro
Michael E. Hood
Michael E. Hood Amherst College
Marc-Henri Lebrun
Marc-Henri Lebrun University of Paris-Saclay
John W. Taylor
John W. Taylor University of California, Berkeley
N. Louise Glass
N. Louise Glass University of California, Berkeley
Ryohei Terauchi
Ryohei Terauchi Kyoto University
Nicholas J. Talbot
Nicholas J. Talbot University of East Anglia
Mogens S. Hovmøller
Mogens S. Hovmøller Aarhus University

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