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Thierry Rouxel is affiliated with INRAE, the Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research focuses primarily on plant sciences, with a strong emphasis on plant-microbe interactions and immunity, plant pathogens, and related biological processes.

The main fields of study in Rouxel's work include Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. More specific subfields consist of Plant Science, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Parasitology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Key topics covered by Rouxel span Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies, Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Plant Pathogens and Resistance, and Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications.

Rouxel has published extensively in a variety of venues. Frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Plant Pathology, Plant Pathology, BMC Biology, and New Phytologist.

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Plant Pathology
  • Plant Pathology
  • BMC Biology
  • New Phytologist

Among recent papers authored by Rouxel are the following:

  • A new family of structurally conserved fungal effectors displays epistatic interactions with plant resistance proteins, 2022, PLoS Pathogens
  • New specific quantitative real-time PCR assays shed light on the epidemiology of two species of the Leptosphaeria maculans - Leptosphaeria biglobosa species complex, 2020, Plant Pathology
  • Large-scale transcriptomics to dissect 2 years of the life of a fungal phytopathogen interacting with its host plant, 2021, BMC Biology
  • A gene-for-gene interaction involving a 'late' effector contributes to quantitative resistance to the stem canker disease in Brassica napus, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Two independent approaches converge to the cloning of a new Leptosphaeria maculans avirulence effector gene, AvrLmS-Lep2, 2022, Molecular Plant Pathology

Collaborations are notable in Rouxel's body of work, with frequent co-authors including Marie-Hélène Balesdent, Isabelle Fudal, Elise J. Gay, Jessica L. Soyer, and Bénédicte Ollivier.

Best Publications

  • Effector diversification within compartments of the Leptosphaeria maculans genome affected by Repeat-Induced Point mutations

    Thierry Rouxel;Jonathan Grandaubert;James K. Hane;Claire Hoede

  • Lost in the middle of nowhere: the AvrLm1 avirulence gene of the Dothideomycete Leptosphaeria maculans.

    Lilian Gout;Isabelle Fudal;Marie‐Line Kuhn;Françoise Blaise

  • A 10-year survey of populations of Leptosphaeria maculans in France indicates a rapid adaptation towards the Rlm1 resistance gene of oilseed rape

    Thierry Rouxel;Annette Penaud;Xavier Pinochet;Hortense Brun

  • Heterochromatin-like regions as ecological niches for avirulence genes in the Leptosphaeria maculans genome : Map-based cloning of AvrLm6

    I. Fudal;S. Ross;L. Gout;F. Blaise

  • Epigenetic Control of Effector Gene Expression in the Plant Pathogenic Fungus Leptosphaeria maculans

    Jessica L Soyer;Mennat El Ghalid;Nicolas Glaser;Bénédicte Ollivier

  • Major gene and polygenic resistance to Leptosphaeria maculans in oilseed rape (Brassica napus)

    R. Delourme;A. M. Chèvre;H. Brun;T. Rouxel

  • The dispensable chromosome of Leptosphaeria maculans shelters an effector gene conferring avirulence towards Brassica rapa.

    Marie-Hélène Balesdent;Isabelle Fudal;Bénédicte Ollivier;Pascal Bally

  • Leptosphaeria maculans avirulence gene AvrLm4‐7 confers a dual recognition specificity by the Rlm4 and Rlm7 resistance genes of oilseed rape, and circumvents Rlm4‐mediated recognition through a single amino acid change

    Francis Parlange;Guillaume Daverdin;Isabelle Fudal;Marie-Line Kuhn

  • The stem canker (blackleg) fungus, Leptosphaeria maculans, enters the genomic era.

    T. Rouxel;M. H. Balesdent

  • Genetic Control and Host Range of Avirulence Toward Brassica napus Cultivars Quinta and Jet Neuf in Leptosphaeria maculans.

    Balesdent Mh;Attard A;Ansan-Melayah Da;Delourme R

  • A Cluster of Major Specific Resistance Genes to Leptosphaeria maculans in Brassica napus

    R. Delourme;M. L. Pilet-Nayel;M. Archipiano;R. Horvais

  • Molecular phylogeny of the Leptosphaeria maculans-L. biglobosa species complex.

    Edouard Mendes-Pereira;Marie-Hélène Balesdent;Hortense Brun;Thierry Rouxel

  • Transposable element-assisted evolution and adaptation to host plant within the Leptosphaeria maculans-Leptosphaeria biglobosa species complex of fungal pathogens

    Jonathan Grandaubert;Rohan G T Lowe;Jessica L Soyer;Conrad L Schoch

  • Major gene resistance in Brassica napus (oilseed rape) is overcome by changes in virulence of populations of Leptosphaeria maculans in France and Australia

    Susan J. Sprague;Susan J. Sprague;Marie-Hélène Balesdent;Hortense Brun;Helen L. Hayden

  • Repeat-induced point mutation (RIP) as an alternative mechanism of evolution toward virulence in Leptosphaeria maculans.

    Isabelle Fudal;Simon Ross;Hortense Brun;Anne-Laure Besnard

  • Fitness cost associated with loss of the AvrLm4 avirulence function in Leptosphaeria maculans (phoma stem canker of oilseed rape)

    Yongju Huang;Z. Q. Li;Neal Evans;T. Rouxel

  • Genes for race‐specific resistance against blackleg disease in Brassica napus L.

    D. Ansan-Melayah;M. H. Balesdent;R. Delourme;M. L. Pilet

  • A novel mode of chromosomal evolution peculiar to filamentous Ascomycete fungi

    James K Hane;James K Hane;Thierry Rouxel;Barbara J Howlett;Gert H J Kema

  • Genome structure impacts molecular evolution at the AvrLm1 avirulence locus of the plant pathogen Leptosphaeria maculans.

    Lilian Gout;Marie Line Kuhn;Lucie Vincenot;Sylvie Bernard-Samain

  • Colonization of winter oilseed rape tissues by A/Tox+ and B/Tox0 Leptosphaeria maculans (phoma stem canker) in France and England

    Jon S. West;M. H. Balesdent;T. Rouxel;J. P. Narcy

Frequent Co-Authors

Isabelle Fudal
Isabelle Fudal INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Bruce D.L. Fitt
Bruce D.L. Fitt University of Hertfordshire
Barbara J. Howlett
Barbara J. Howlett University of Melbourne
Brett M. Tyler
Brett M. Tyler Oregon State University
Régine Delourme
Régine Delourme INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Francis Martin
Francis Martin University of Lorraine
Michel Renard
Michel Renard INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Anne-Marie Chèvre
Anne-Marie Chèvre University of Rennes
Joelle Amselem
Joelle Amselem INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Marc-Henri Lebrun
Marc-Henri Lebrun University of Paris-Saclay

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