BIOlogie GEstion des Risques en agriculture (BIOGER)

Laboratory presentation

The BIOGER laboratory develops projects to fight pathogenic plants fungi that are responsible for major loss in agronomy. Among these fungi studied, we can mention the septoriosis, fusariose, cereals rusts, rapeseed phoma or the vine gray rot. These studies are carried out on different biology scales: from genome to infectious mechanisms to evolutionary dynamics and epidemiology. The overall objective of this work is to meet societal expectations in terms of sustainable and environmentally-friendly control of fungal diseases in field crops and risk management related to the spread and adaptive potential of phytopathogenic fungi. This research are carried out through several collaborative projects in partnership with the main agrochemical firms.

The 20 latest publications

Title Authors Publication date Source
The collembolan Heteromurus nitidus grazes the wheat fungal pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici on infected tissues: opportunities and limitations for bioregulation Frédéric Suffert 01/01/24 Pest Management Science
Is thermal aptitude a pivotal driver in the establishment of recent Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici lineages in Europe? Kevin J.G. Meyer, Marc Leconte, Tiphaine Vidal, Henriette Goyeau, Frédéric Suffert 01/01/24 Journal of Plant Pathology
Monitoring the phenology of plant pathogenic fungi: why and how? Tiphaine Vidal 01/01/24 Biological Reviews
A new set of international Leptosphaeria maculans isolates as a resource for elucidation of the basis and evolution of blackleg disease on Brassica napus Marie Hélène Balesdent 01/01/24 Plant Pathology
The bZIP transcription factor BIP1 of the rice blast fungus is essential for infection and regulates a specific set of appressorium genes Marc Henri Lebrun 01/01/24 PLoS Pathogens
Unfolding the link between multiple ecosystem services and bundles of functional traits to design multifunctional crop variety mixtures Florence Dubs, Jerome Enjalbert 12/01/23 Agronomy for Sustainable Development
A thousand-genome panel retraces the global spread and adaptation of a major fungal crop pathogen Lilian Gout, Thierry C. Marcel, Frédéric Suffert, Anne Genissel, Marc Henri Lebrun 12/01/23 Nature Communications
CusProSe: a customizable protein annotation software with an application to the prediction of fungal secondary metabolism genes Jean Felix Dallery, Richard J. O’Connell, Marc Henri Lebrun, Muriel Viaud 12/01/23 Scientific Reports
A landscape-scale field survey demonstrates the role of wheat volunteers as a local and diversified source of leaf rust inoculum A. L. Boixel, Henriette Goyeau, J. Berder, Frédéric Suffert, Tiphaine Vidal 12/01/23 Scientific Reports
Location and timing govern tripartite interactions of fungal phytopathogens and host in the stem canker species complex Elise J. Gay, Noémie Jacques, Nicolas Lapalu, Valerie Laval, Marie Hélène Balesdent, Thierry Rouxel 12/01/23 BMC Biology
Yeast-based heterologous production of the Colletochlorin family of fungal secondary metabolites Aude Geistodt-Kiener, Justine Vergne, Kaori Sakai, Muriel Viaud, Richard J. O'Connell, Jean Felix Dallery 11/01/23 Metabolic Engineering
Efficient multiple gene knockout in Colletotrichum higginsianum via CRISPR/Cas9 ribonucleoprotein and URA3-based marker recycling Jean Felix Dallery, Richard J. O'Connell 11/01/23 Molecular Plant Pathology
Dietary preferences of Heteromurus nitidus (Collembola) among wheat fungal communities: Implications for bioregulation of two widespread pathogens Frédéric Suffert 08/01/23 Applied Soil Ecology
The neighbouring genes AvrLm10A and AvrLm10B are part of a large multigene family of cooperating effector genes conserved in Dothideomycetes and Sordariomycetes Nacera Talbi, Yohann Petit-Houdenot, Françoise Blaise, Elise J. Gay, Thierry Rouxel, Marie Hélène Balesdent, Isabelle Fudal 08/01/23 Molecular Plant Pathology
Improving sustainable crop protection using population genetics concepts Clémentine Louet, Isabelle Fudal 05/01/23 Molecular Ecology
A secreted protease-like protein in Zymoseptoria tritici is responsible for avirulence on Stb9 resistance gene in wheat Reda Amezrou, Colette Audéon, Sandrine Gélisse, Aurélie Ducasse, Nicolas Lapalu, Clémentine Louet, Sabine Fillinger, Thierry C. Marcel 05/01/23 PLoS Pathogens
A highly multiplexed assay to monitor pathogenicity, fungicide resistance and gene flow in the fungal wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici Gwilherm Gazeau, Sandrine Gélisse, Reda Amezrou, Thierry C. Marcel 02/01/23 PLoS ONE
The Combination of Both Heat and Water Stresses May Worsen Botryosphaeria Dieback Symptoms in Grapevine Marc Henri Lebrun 02/01/23 Plants
Large-scale population survey of Leptosphaeria maculans in France highlights both on-going breakdowns and potentially effective resistance genes in oilseed rape Marie Hélène Balesdent, Valerie Laval, Julie Marie Noah, Thierry Rouxel 01/01/23 Pest Management Science
Unravelling the web of dark interactions: Explainable inference of the diversity of microbial interactions Valerie Laval, Frédéric Suffert 01/01/23 Advances in Ecological Research

Number of publications of the laboratory by scientific field (2016-2021)

Every paper can be classified in one or more scientific fields. The figure below shows the lab's number of publications in each scientific field, according to the ASJC classification (Elsevier)