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Pierre Sourdille is affiliated with the University of Clermont Auvergne in France. Their research is centered primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broad areas, their work focuses extensively on subfields such as Plant Science, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Food Science.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Genetics and Plant Breeding
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • Plant Genetic and Mutation Studies

Recent publications by Pierre Sourdille illustrate their ongoing contributions to plant genetics and molecular biology. Notable papers include:

  • "Ph2 encodes the mismatch repair protein MSH7-3D that inhibits wheat homoeologous recombination," 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • "Chromosome Pairing in Polyploid Grasses," 2020, published in Frontiers in Plant Science
  • "SNP markers for early identification of high molecular weight glutenin subunits (HMW-GSs) in bread wheat," 2020, published in Theoretical and Applied Genetics
  • "Genetic control of compatibility in crosses between wheat and its wild or cultivated relatives," 2022, published in Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • "Evolution of recombination landscapes in diverging populations of bread wheat," 2021, published in Genome Biology and Evolution

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Pierre Sourdille include Danguy Des Déserts Alice, Sophie Bouchet, Bertrand Servin, Heïdi Serra, and Radim Svačina. These collaborations reflect multidisciplinary and cooperative research approaches within plant genetics and molecular biology.

They regularly publish in several scientific venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being:

  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Plant Journal
  • Biology

Best Publications

  • 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 chromosome-based draft sequence of the hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) genome

    Klaus F. X. Mayer;Jane Rogers;Jaroslav Doležel

  • Microsatellite-based deletion bin system for the establishment of genetic-physical map relationships in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.).

    Pierre Sourdille;Sukhwinder Singh;Thierry Cadalen;Gina L. Brown-Guedira

  • 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

  • Molecular Basis of Evolutionary Events That Shaped the Hardness Locus in Diploid and Polyploid Wheat Species (Triticum and Aegilops)

    Nathalie Chantret;Jérôme Salse;François Sabot;Sadequr Rahman

  • Linkage between RFLP markers and genes affecting kernel hardness in wheat

    P. Sourdille;M. R. Perretant;G. Charmet;P. Leroy

  • Characterisation of polymorphic microsatellite markers from Aegilops tauschii and transferability to the D-genome of bread wheat.

    H Guyomarc'h;P Sourdille;G Charmet;KJ Edwards

  • An update of the Courtot x Chinese Spring intervarietal molecular marker linkage map for the QTL detection of agronomic traits in wheat.

    Pierre Sourdille;T. Cadalen;Hélène Guyomarc'H;J.W. Snape

  • Study of simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers from wheat expressed sequence tags (ESTs)

    N. Nicot;V. Chiquet;B. Gandon;L. Amilhat

  • An integrative genetic linkage map of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

    Sophie Paillard;Thornsten Schnurbusch;M. Winzeler;Monika Messmer

  • Characterizing the composition and evolution of homoeologous genomes in hexaploid wheat through BAC‐end sequencing on chromosome 3B

    Etienne Paux;Delphine Roger;Ekatherina Badaeva

  • Several QTLs involved in osmotic-adjustment trait variation in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)

    B. Teulat;D. This;M. Khairallah;C. Borries

  • A worldwide bread wheat core collection arrayed in a 384-well plate

    François Balfourier;Valérie Roussel;Pjotr Strelchenko;Florence Exbrayat-Vinson

  • QTL analysis of bread-making quality in wheat using a doubled haploid population

    M.R. Perretant;T. Cadalen;G. Charmet;Pierre Sourdille

  • High throughput SNP discovery and genotyping in hexaploid wheat

    Hélène Rimbert;Benoît Darrier;Julien Navarro;Jonathan Kitt

  • A high-density molecular map for ryegrass (Lolium perenne) using AFLP markers.

    P F Bert;G Charmet;P Sourdille;M D Hayward

  • High transferability of bread wheat EST-derived SSRs to other cereals

    L. Y. Zhang;M. Bernard;P. Leroy;C. Feuillet

  • Dissecting large and complex genomes: flow sorting and BAC cloning of individual chromosomes from bread wheat

    Jan Šafář;Jan Bartoš;Jaroslav Janda;Arnaud Bellec

  • Direct Estimation of Mutation Rate for 10 Microsatellite Loci in Durum Wheat, Triticum turgidum (L.) Thell. ssp durum desf

    Anne-Céline Thuillet;David Bru;Jacques David;Pierre Roumet

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine Feuillet
Catherine Feuillet Bayer (Germany)
Gilles Charmet
Gilles Charmet INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Etienne Paux
Etienne Paux University of Clermont Auvergne
François Balfourier
François Balfourier University of Clermont Auvergne
Hana Šimková
Hana Šimková Czech Academy of Sciences
Jaroslav Doležel
Jaroslav Doležel Czech Academy of Sciences
Hélène Bergès
Hélène Bergès INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Rudi Appels
Rudi Appels University of Melbourne
Boulos Chalhoub
Boulos Chalhoub INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jérôme Salse
Jérôme Salse INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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