Frédéric Suffert
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wheatpath.bsky.social
Frédéric Suffert
@wheatpath.bsky.social
Plant disease epidemiologist @inrae-france.bsky.social studying wheat fungal pathogens, mostly Zymoseptoria | Enthusiatic about rust & wild pathosystems | IngAgro PhD IHEDN | https://bit.ly/fsuffert_eng
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Glad to share our latest article “Off-season sex in #Zymoseptoria tritici: little room for late encounters”, which continues our series of studies conducted in #ADEPTeam @inrae-bioger.bsky.social on the epidemiological determinants & impact of sexual reproduction in STB.
doi.org/10.1016/j.fg...
End-of–2nd-year meeting for the #FSOV project @semae_officiel “RouilleNoire_2.0” on #wheat stem #rust in France. Many thanks to all partners — breeders and phytopathologists — for reviewing the ongoing work, and to Kévin Meyer for chairing the day.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
First large-scale breakdown of Yr15 resistance to #wheat yellow #rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) recorded globally doi.org/10.1002/ndr2...
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Species composition of #wheat #Septoria pathogens and identification of effector genes in #Parastagonospora spp. populations of Krasnodar Krai and Leningrad Oblast of the Russian Federation doi.org/10.3103/S106...
Species Composition of Wheat Septoria Pathogens and Identification of Effector Genes in Parastagonospora spp. Populations of Krasnodar Krai and Leningrad Oblast of the Russian Federation - Russian Agr...
Abstract The study was aimed at clarifying species composition of wheat Septoria pathogens and characterizing populations of Parastagonospora nodorum and P. pseudonodorum for the presence of Tox1, Tox...
doi.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Transcriptomic analysis of two wheat genotypes in the presence of the pathogen #Zymoseptoria tritici and the biological control agent Clonostachys rosea doi.org/10.1016/j.pm...
November 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Reposted by Frédéric Suffert
TEs aren’t just genomic parasites, they’re also engines of genomic novelty.

Our new study with ~2,000 Z. tritici genomes shows repeated TE mobilization waves during global expansion.

With @danielcroll.bsky.social & @guidopuccetti.bsky.social

🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#TEworldwide
Historic transposon mobilisation waves create distinct pools of adaptive variants in a major crop pathogen - Nature Communications
In this study, the authors analysed a large genomic dataset to trace how jumping genes shaped the global spread of a major wheat pathogen and reveal bursts of activity over decades that drove adaptati...
www.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"Biosécurité végétale : vers une instrumentalisation des menaces ?" J’explore cette question dans le dernier numéro de la @revuesesame.bsky.social p. 60-62 : revue-sesame-inrae.fr/18-2/
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Reposted by Frédéric Suffert
Save the date: 20 Nov 2025 at 17h. Megan McDonald will present: Jumping Genes and Pathogenic Schemes: the diverse roles that transposons play in pathogen evolution.
A must for the pathology community!
Info here: www.wheatinitiative.org/new-events/m...
@karchuntan.bsky.social
@ReemWheat.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Glad to share our latest article “Off-season sex in #Zymoseptoria tritici: little room for late encounters”, which continues our series of studies conducted in #ADEPTeam @inrae-bioger.bsky.social on the epidemiological determinants & impact of sexual reproduction in STB.
doi.org/10.1016/j.fg...
November 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Reposted by Frédéric Suffert
Bad news for the French Pine forests! 😩

First outbreak of the #Pinewood #Nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus on Maritime #Pine (Pinus pinaster) in the Landes de Gascogne Forest (Southwest France).

#PWN #ForestHealth #ForestPathology

agriculture.gouv.fr/sante-des-ve...
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Combating #wheat leaf #rust: Advances in genetic resistance and sustainable management strategies doi.org/10.1016/j.pm...
November 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The book "Biological Highways in the Sky" about the aerial dispersion of microbes and small insects is available free of charge in ebook form via the #ÉditionsQuae platform: www.quae-open.com/produit/346/...
@dbszane.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Reconstructing Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici genetic diversity in South Africa using herbarium specimens doi.org/10.1094/PDIS...
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Reposted by Frédéric Suffert
New Correspondence: "Rethinking the need for field trials" rdcu.be/eM96P
October 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Reposted by Frédéric Suffert
🌾A good day for cereal rust community!

Thrilled to share our 5 yrs of work with revolutionary discoveries on wheat & barley stripe rust fungi + we present the most comprehensive genomic resource (54 haploid genomes) ever developed for any wheat rust fungi.
1/5
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Wheat and barley stripe rust pan-genome facilitates discovery of the predominant North American lineage's origin in somatic hybridization
Wheat and barley stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis formae speciales tritici (Pst) and hordei (Psh) respectively is a perennial and endemic threat to those crops worldwide. Outside the Himala...
www.biorxiv.org
October 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Reposted by Frédéric Suffert
BLOG - Battling crop diseases without borders: how a research community maintains global defences against wheat rusts

For 15 years, DEWAS, an international research collaboration @cimmyt.bsky.social, has been studying, detecting and defusing outbreaks of the devastating crop disease wheat rust.
Battling crop diseases without borders | John Innes Centre
DEWAS is one of the world’s largest crop pathogen surveillance and advisory systems, protecting wheat productivity in food vulnerable areas of East Africa and South Asia.
www.jic.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Reposted by Frédéric Suffert
PhDone!
Congratulations Dr. @ammarabdalrahem.bsky.social!
👏👏👏👨‍🎓🎓

A big thank you to @tatianagiraud.bsky.social, @sofarndhnd.bsky.social & @wheatpath.bsky.social for being on the PhD jury!

📸 @mireiagoga.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
📣 Three new Master’s 2 (M2) internship opportunities in phytopathology are offered for 2026 within the #ADEPteam @inrae-bioger.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social, focusing on the study of plant-pathogen interactions: eng-bioger.versailles-saclay.hub.inrae.fr/teams-and-pl...
October 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Après la journée des scolaires, les collègues @inrae-bioger.bsky.social se mobilisent ce week-end pour faire découvrir les #champignons - bons, brutes & truands ! - sous toutes leurs facettes au grand public pour la #FêteDeLaScience à l’ENS Paris-Saclay @univparissaclay.bsky.social. Venez nombreux !
October 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Collecte de champignons - bons, brutes ou truands !? - à présenter en fin de semaine à l'occasion de la #FêteDeLaScience 🔽
October 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM