Johann Confais

The paper tests if climate-associated genomic variation predicts phenotypic adaptation in European wild apple, finding genomic offsets link to bud-break timing but not other traits.

panREPET identifies shared transposable elements across genomes to trace their dynamics, revealing TE bursts linked to climate events in Brachypodium distachyon.

This study compares domestication routes in European and East Asian pears, finding weak bottlenecks, gene flow, and no cost-of-domestication effect.

The paper analyzes the genomic structure and evolution of the S-locus in apple to show how balancing selection maintains conserved S-haplotype architectures despite structural divergence.

The paper analyzes olfactory and gustatory receptor genes and transposable elements in aphid genomes to understand their evolutionary dynamics and role in host adaptation.

This paper constructs cross-taxon pangenomes for tree species, identifies structural variants, and evaluates their functional relevance using the Armeniaca taxonomic section.

This study uses whole-genome sequencing to identify genetic factors underlying quantitative pathogenicity and host adaptation in the fungal plant pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici.