Sébastien Cunnac

eIFiso4G editing confers high and broad-spectrum resistance against rice yellow mottle virus

This study shows that knocking out eIFiso4G1 or introducing Indels in its VPg-interacting region confers high resistance to RYMV in rice, with some variants maintaining plant growth.

Two domesticated species of rice shaped the population structure of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae in Africa

The paper traces the evolutionary history of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae in Africa, showing its adaptation to African rice and how the introduction of Asian rice shaped its population structure.

Symptom observation underestimates co-infections: insight from viral and bacterial diseases in rice fields in Burkina Faso

The paper shows that symptom observation in rice fields greatly underestimates co-infections by RYMV and Xoc, revealing 12.4% co-infection rates in symptomatic samples.

Comparative transcriptomics reveal a highly polymorphic Xanthomonas HrpG virulence regulon

This study uses transcriptomics to compare the HrpG regulon across 17 Xanthomonas strains, revealing diverse gene regulation beyond the T3SS and T3Es.

CulebrONT: a streamlined long reads multi-assembler pipeline for prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes

CulebrONT is a pipeline that streamlines long-read genome assembly by integrating multiple assemblers and providing quality metrics.

An atypical class of non-coding small RNAs produced in rice leaves upon bacterial infection

The paper identifies a novel class of sRNAs in rice induced by bacterial infection, which may play a role in plant-microbe interactions.