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Thierry Heulin is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France and has conducted extensive research within the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans over 40 publications, with a significant focus on plant science and related disciplines.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Gut microbiota and health

Heulin has contributed to multiple subfields of study, including Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Soil Science, and Environmental Engineering. Their research output has been published predominantly in venues such as Plant and Soil, SSRN Electronic Journal, The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports, and the Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Heulin include:

  • "Assessing the Potential Role of Compost, PGPR, and AMF in Improving Tomato Plant Growth, Yield, Fruit Quality, and Water Stress Tolerance" (2021), Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
  • "The rhizosheath: from desert plants adaptation to crop breeding" (2020), Plant and Soil
  • "Phytobeneficial bacteria improve saline stress tolerance in Vicia faba and modulate microbial interaction network" (2020), The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Unraveling the interplay between root exudates, microbiota, and rhizosheath formation in pearl millet" (2024), Microbiome
  • "Pearl millet genotype impacts microbial diversity and enzymatic activities in relation to root-adhering soil aggregation" (2021), Plant and Soil

Heulin frequently collaborates with researchers such as Wafa Achouak, Mohamed Barakat, Papa Mamadou Sitor Ndour, Laurent Cournac, and Sylvain Fochesato, with collaboration counts ranging from 9 to 21 joint works.

Best Publications

  • Plant host habitat and root exudates shape soil bacterial community structure

    Feth el Zahar Haichar;Christine Marol;Odile Berge;J Ignacio Rangel-Castro

  • Root exudates mediated interactions belowground

    Feth el Zahar Haichar;Catherine Santaella;Catherine Santaella;Thierry Heulin;Thierry Heulin;Wafa Achouak;Wafa Achouak

  • Polyphasic Taxonomy in the Genus Burkholderia Leading to an Emended Description of the Genus and Proposition of Burkholderia vietnamiensis sp. nov. for N2-Fixing Isolates from Rice in Vietnam

    Monique Gillis;Tran Van Van;René Bardin;Mart Goor

  • Rhizosphere soil aggregation and plant growth promotion of sunflowers by an exopolysaccharide-producing Rhizobium sp. strain isolated from sunflower roots.

    Younes Alami;Wafa Achouak;Christine Marol;Thierry Heulin

  • Repeated beneficial effects of rice inoculation with a strain of Burkholderia vietnamiensis on early and late yield components in low fertility sulphate acid soils of Vietnam

    V. Trân Van;O. Berge;S. Ngô Kê;J. Balandreau

  • Multiple facets of bacterial porins

    Wafa Achouak;Thierry Heulin;Jean-Marie Pagès

  • Production of auxin and other indolic and phenolic compounds by Paenibacillus polymyxa strains isolated from different proximity to plant roots

    Michael Lebuhn;Thierry Heulin;Anton Hartmann

  • The desert of Tataouine: an extreme environment that hosts a wide diversity of microorganisms and radiotolerant bacteria

    Angélique Chanal;Virginie Chapon;Karim Benzerara;Karim Benzerara;Mohamed Barakat

  • Ecology and evolution of bacterial microdiversity

    Michael Schloter;Michael Lebuhn;Thierry Heulin;Anton Hartmann

  • Colonization of wheat roots by an exopolysaccharide-producing Pantoea agglomerans strain and its effect on rhizosphere soil aggregation

    N. Amellal;G. Burtin;F. Bartoli;T. Heulin

  • Paenibacillus graminis sp. nov. and Paenibacillus odorifer sp. nov., isolated from plant roots, soil and food

    Odile Berge;Marie-Hélène Guinebretière;Wafa Achouak;Philippe Normand

  • Selenite and Tellurite Reduction by Shewanella oneidensis

    Agnieszka Klonowska;Thierry Heulin;André Vermeglio

  • Taxonomic characterization of Ochrobactrum sp. isolates from soil samples and wheat roots, and description of Ochrobactrum tritici sp. nov. and Ochrobactrum grignonense sp. nov.

    Michael Lebuhn;Wafa Achouak;Michael Schloter;Odile Berge

  • Isolation and identification of an EPS-producing Rhizobium strain from arid soil (Algeria): characterization of its EPS and the effect of inoculation on wheat rhizosphere soil structure

    Yahia Kaci;Alain Heyraud;Mohamed Barakat;Thierry Heulin

  • Differentiation of Burkholderia Species by PCR-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis of the 16S rRNA Gene and Application to Cystic Fibrosis Isolates

    Christine Segonds;Thierry Heulin;Nicole Marty;Gerard Chabanon

  • Metabolic and Genotypic Fingerprinting of Fluorescent Pseudomonads Associated with the Douglas Fir-Laccaria bicolor Mycorrhizosphere.

    Pascal Frey;Pascale Frey-Klett;Jean Garbaye;Odile Berge

  • Deinococcus deserti sp. nov., a gamma-radiation-tolerant bacterium isolated from the Sahara Desert

    Arjan de Groot;Virginie Chapon;Pascale Servant;Richard Christen

  • Disruption of the Paenibacillus polymyxa levansucrase gene impairs its ability to aggregate soil in the wheat rhizosphere

    Samira Bezzate;Stéphane Aymerich;Régis Chambert;Sonia Czarnes

  • Pseudomonas brassicacearum sp. nov. and Pseudomonas thivervalensis sp. nov., two root-associated bacteria isolated from Brassica napus and Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Wafa Achouak;Laurent Sutra;Thierry Heulin;Jean-Marie Meyer

  • Alliance of proteomics and genomics to unravel the specificities of Sahara bacterium Deinococcus deserti.

    Arjan de Groot;Rémi Dulermo;Philippe Ortet;Laurence Blanchard

Frequent Co-Authors

Wafa Achouak
Wafa Achouak French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Anton Hartmann
Anton Hartmann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Richard Christen
Richard Christen Université Côte d'Azur
Michael Schloter
Michael Schloter Technical University of Munich
Jérôme Rose
Jérôme Rose Centre for Research and Teaching in Environmental Geoscience
Karim Benzerara
Karim Benzerara Sorbonne University
Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin
Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin Technical University of Munich
François Guyot
François Guyot French National Museum of Natural History
Philippe Lemanceau
Philippe Lemanceau INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Bernard Cathala
Bernard Cathala INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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