Ancestral and recent bursts of transposition shaped the massive genomes of plant pathogenic rust fungi

Emma Corre, E. Morin, S. Duplessis, Cécile Lorrain

bioRxiv, 2025

Responses to Temperature Shocks in Zymoseptoria tritici Reveal Specific Transcriptional Reprogramming and Novel Candidate Genes for Thermal Adaptation.

Silvia Miñana-Posada, Alice Feurtey, Julien Alassimone, Bruce A. McDonald, Cécile Lorrain

Phytopathology, 2025

Three-dimensional genome architecture connects chromatin structure and function in a major wheat pathogen

Ivona Glavincheska, Cécile Lorrain

bioRxiv, 2025

Zymoseptoria tritici stealth infection is facilitated by stage-specific downregulation of a β-glucanase.

Diego Rebaque, Cristian Carrasco-López, Parvathy Krishnan, G. López, Sergio López-Cobos, Felipe de Salas, L. Meile, Cécile Lorrain, Asier Largo-Gosens, Bruce A. McDonald, Francisco Vilaplana, María Jesús Martínez, Hugo Mélida, Antonio Molina, A. Sánchez-Vallet

New Phytologist, 2025

The molecular dialogue between Zymoseptoria tritici and wheat.

L. Meile, Cristian Carrasco-López, Cécile Lorrain, Gert H. J. Kema, C. Saintenac, A. Sánchez-Vallet

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2024

A thousand-genome panel retraces the global spread and adaptation of a major fungal crop pathogen

Alice Feurtey, Cécile Lorrain, Megan C. McDonald, A. Milgate, P. Solomon, R. Warren, Guido Puccetti, G. Scalliet, S. Torriani, L. Gout, T. Marcel, F. Suffert, Julien Alassimone, A. Lipzen, Y. Yoshinaga, Christopher Daum, K. Barry, I. Grigoriev, S. B. Goodwin, A. Genissel, Michael F. Seidl, E. Stukenbrock, M. Lebrun, G. Kema, B. McDonald, D. Croll

Nature Communications, 2023

Major proliferation of transposable elements shaped the genome of the soybean rust pathogen Phakopsora pachyrhizi

Yogesh K. Gupta, F. Marcelino-Guimarães, Cécile Lorrain, A. Farmer, S. Haridas, E. G. C. Ferreira, V. Lopes-Caitar, Liliane Santana Oliveira, E. Morin, Stephanie Widdison, Connor Cameron, Y. Inoue, Kathrin Thor, Kelly A. Robinson, E. Drula, B. Henrissat, K. Labutti, A. Bini, E. Paget, Vasanth R. Singan, Christopher Daum, Cécile Dorme, M. V. van Hoek, A. Janssen, Lucie Chandat, Y. Tarriotte, J. Richardson, B. D. V. A. Melo, A. Wittenberg, Harrie Schneiders, S. Peyrard, L. G. Zanardo, V. Holtman, Flavie Coulombier-Chauvel, Tobias I. Link, Dirk Balmer, André N. Müller, Sabine Kind, Stefan Bohnert, Louisa Wirtz, Cindy Chen, Mi Yan, Vivian Ng, Pierrick Gautier, M. C. Meyer, R. Voegele, Qingli Liu, I. Grigoriev, U. Conrath, S. Brommonschenkel, M. Loehrer, U. Schaffrath, C. Sirven, G. Scalliet, S. Duplessis, H. P. van Esse

Nature Communications, 2023

Virulent strains of Zymoseptoria tritici suppress the host immune response and facilitate the success of avirulent strains in mixed infections

Alessio Bernasconi, Cécile Lorrain, Priska Flury, Julien Alassimone, Bruce A. McDonald, A. Sánchez-Vallet

PLoS Pathogens, 2023

Zymoseptoria tritici suppresses the host immune response and facilitates the success of avirulent strains in mixed infections

Alessio Bernasconi, Cécile Lorrain, Priska Flury, Julien Alassimone, Bruce A. McDonald, A. Sánchez-Vallet

bioRxiv, 2023

Epigenetic modifications affect the rate of spontaneous mutations in a pathogenic fungus

M. Habig, Cécile Lorrain, Alice Feurtey, Jovan Komluski, E. Stukenbrock

Nature Communications, 2021

Host Adaptation and Virulence in Heteroecious Rust Fungi.

S. Duplessis, Cécile Lorrain, Benjamin Petre, M. Figueroa, P. Dodds, M. C. Aime

Annual Review of Phytopathology, 2021

Transposable Elements in Fungi: Coevolution With the Host Genome Shapes, Genome Architecture, Plasticity and Adaptation

Cécile Lorrain, Ursula Oggenfuss, D. Croll, S. Duplessis, E. Stukenbrock

2021

Host-specialized transcriptome of plant-associated organisms.

Benjamin Petre, Cécile Lorrain, E. Stukenbrock, S. Duplessis

Current opinion in plant biology, 2020

Advances in understanding obligate biotrophy in rust fungi.

Cécile Lorrain, K. C. Gonçalves Dos Santos, H. Germain, Arnaud Hecker, S. Duplessis

New Phytologist, 2019

Genome compartmentalization predates species divergence in the plant pathogen genus Zymoseptoria

Alice Feurtey, Cécile Lorrain, D. Croll, Christoph J Eschenbrenner, M. Freitag, M. Habig, Janine Haueisen, Mareike Möller, K. Schotanus, E. Stukenbrock

BMC Genomics, 2019

Structural genomics applied to the rust fungus Melampsora larici-populina reveals two candidate effector proteins adopting cystine knot and NTF2-like protein folds

K. de Guillen, Cécile Lorrain, P. Tsan, P. Barthe, Benjamin Petre, N. Saveleva, N. Rouhier, S. Duplessis, A. Padilla, Arnaud Hecker

Scientific Reports, 2019

Show me the way: rust effector targets in heterologous plant systems.

Cécile Lorrain, Benjamin Petre, S. Duplessis

Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2018

New insights into plant-microbe interactions through advances in fungal genetics.

Cécile Lorrain, Julie Gervais, Y. Petit, J. Plett

New Phytologist, 2017

Effector-Mining in the Poplar Rust Fungus Melampsora larici-populina Secretome

Cécile Lorrain, Arnaud Hecker, S. Duplessis

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2015