Cyrille Saintenac

Interaction-specific early wheat responses to Zymoseptoria tritici share enhanced defense-related transcription during incompatibility

The paper compares early transcriptomic responses in wheat cultivars to Zymoseptoria tritici, finding that defense-related genes show higher expression in incompatible interactions.

From Canopy Images to Organ-Level Disease Assessments: A Scalable Approach to Measure Quantitative Resistance in the Field

This paper introduces an imaging protocol and pipeline to measure wheat disease severity from canopy images, achieving high correlation with manual methods and enabling scalable, contact-free disease assessment.

Diversification, loss, and virulence gains of the major effector AvrStb6 during continental spread of the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici

The paper analyzes the global evolution of the effector gene AvrStb6 in Zymoseptoria tritici, showing diversification, loss, and virulence gains linked to host resistance deployment.

Septoria tritici blotch resistance gene Stb15 encodes a lectin receptor-like kinase

The paper identifies Stb15, a lectin receptor-like kinase gene conferring resistance to Septoria tritici blotch in wheat, through GWAS and functional validation.