Preserving, characterizing and enhancing genetic resources

Luro F., Viglietti G., Marchi E., Costantino G., Scarpia M.G., Tomi F., Paoli M., Curk F., Ollitrault P. 2019. Genetic, morphological and chemical investigations reveal the genetic origin of Pompia (C. medica tuberosa Risso & Poiteau) - An old endemic Sardinian citrus fruit. Phytochemistry : 10 p.

Garcia Neves C., Do Amaral D.O.J., Barbosa de Paula M.F., Santana de Nascimento L., Costantino G., Sampaio Passos O., Do Amaral Santos M., Ollitrault P., Da Silva Gesteira A., Luro F., Micheli F. 2018. Characterization of tropical mandarin collection: Implications for breeding related to fruit quality. Scientia Horticulturae, 239 : p. 289-299.

Dugrand-Judek A., Olry A., Hehn A., Costantino G., Ollitrault P., Froelicher Y., Bourgaud F.. 2015. The distribution of coumarins and furanocoumarins in Citrus species closely matches Citrus phylogeny and reflects the organization of biosynthetic pathways. PloS One, 10 (11) : e0142757 (25 p.).

Durand-Hulak M., Dugrand A., Duval T., Bidel L.P.R., Jay-Allemand C., Froelicher Y., Bourgaud F., Fanciullino A.L.. 2015. Mapping the genetic and tissular diversity of 64 phenolic compounds in Citrus species using a UPLC-MS approach. Annals of Botany, 115 (5) : p. 861-877.

Garcia-Lor A., Luro F., Ollitrault P., Navarro L.. 2015. Genetic diversity and population structure analysis of mandarin germplasm by nuclear, chloroplastic and mitochondrial markers. Tree Genetics and Genomes, 11 : 15 p..

Analyze the structures of genomes and species complexes

Ahmed D., Comte A., Curk F., Costantino G., Luro F., Dereeper A., Mournet P., Froelicher Y., Ollitrault P. 2019. Genotyping by sequencing can reveal the complex mosaic genomes in gene pools resulting from reticulate evolution: a case study in diploid and polyploid citrus. Annals of Botany, 123 (7) : p. 1231-1251.

Do Amaral Santos M., Barbosa de Paula M.F., Ollitrault F., Rivallan R., De Andrade Silva E.M., Da Silva Gesteira A., Luro F., Garcia D., Ollitrault P., Micheli F. 2019. Phylogenetic origin of primary and secondary metabolic pathway genes revealed by C. maxima and C. reticulata diagnostic SNPs. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10 : 15 p.

Wu G.A., Terol J.F., Ibáñez V., López-García A., Pérez-Román E., Borredá C., Domingo C., Tadeo F., Carbonell-Caballero J., Alonso R., Curk F., Du D., Ollitrault P., Roose M.L., Dopazo J., Gmitter F.G., Rokhsar D.S., Talon M.. 2018. Genomics of the origin and evolution of Citrus. Nature : 20 p. doi.org/10.1038/nature25447.

Curk F., Ollitrault F., Garcia-Lor A., Luro F., Navarro L., Ollitrault P.. 2016. Phylogenetic origin of limes and lemons revealed by cytoplasmic and nuclear markers. Annals of Botany, 117 (4) : p. 565-583.

Wu G.A., Prochnik S., Jenkins J., Salse J., Hellsten U., Murat F., Perrier X., Ruiz M., Scalabrin S., Terol J.F., Takita M.A., Labadie K., Poulain J., Couloux A., Jabbari K., Cattonaro F., Del Fabbro C., Pinosio S., Zuccolo A., Chapman J., Grimwood J., Tadeo F., Estornell L.H., Muñoz-Sanz J.V., Ibáñez V., Herrero-Ortega A., Aleza P., Pérez-Pérez J., Ramón D., Brunel D., Luro F., Chen C., Farmerie W.G., Desany B., Kodira C., Mohiuddin M., Harkins T., Fredrikson K., Burns P., Lomsadze A., Borodovsky M., Reforgiato G., Freitas-Astúa J., Quetier F., Navarro L., Roose M.L., Wincker P., Schmutz J., Morgante M., Machado M.A., Talon M., Ollitrault P., Gmitter F.G.J., Rokhsar D.S.. 2014. Sequencing of diverse mandarin, pummelo and orange genomes reveals complex history of admixture during citrus domestication. Nature Biotechnology, 32 : p. 656-662.

Understanding the dynamics of complex genomes

Kamiri M., Stift M., Costantino G., Dambier D., Kabbage T., Ollitrault P., Froelicher Y. 2018. Preferential homologous chromosome pairing in a tetraploid intergeneric somatic hybrid (Citrus reticulata + Poncirus trifoliata)revealed by molecular marker inheritance. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9 : 12 p.

Rouiss H., Bakry F., Froelicher Y., Navarro L., Aleza P., Ollitrault P.. 2018. Origin of C. latifolia and C. aurantiifolia triploid limes: The preferential disomic inheritance of doubled-diploid 'Mexican' lime is consistent with an interploid hybridization hypothesis. Annals of Botany, 121 (3) : p. 571-585.

Rouiss H., Cuenca J., Navarro L., Ollitrault P., Aleza P.. 2017. Unreduced megagametophyte production in lemon occurs via three meiotic mechanisms, predominantly second-division restitution. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8 (1211) : 16 p..

Aleza P., Cuenca J., Juarez J., Navarro L., Ollitrault P.. 2016. Inheritance in doubled-diploid clementine and comparative study with SDR unreduced gametes of diploid clementine. Plant Cell Reports, 35 (8) : p. 1573-1586.

Cuenca J., Aleza P., Juarez J., Garcia-Lor A., Froelicher Y., Navarro L., Ollitrault P.. 2015. Maximum-likelihood method identifies meiotic restitution mechanism from heterozygosity transmission of centromeric loci: Application in citrus. Scientific Reports, 5 (9897) : 11 p..

Understand trait architecture, genome function and phenotype development

Fasih Khalid M, Hussain S, Akbar Anjum M, Ahmad S, Arif Ali M, Ejaz S, Morillon R. 2019.

Better salinity tolerance in tetraploid vs diploid volkamer lemon seedlings is associated with robust antioxidant and osmotic adjustment mechanisms. Journal of Plant Physiology, DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2019.153071.

Butelli E., Licciardello C., Ramadugu C., Durand-Hulak M., Celant A., Reforgiato Recupero G., Froelicher Y., Martin C. 2018. Noemi controls production of flavonoid pigments and fruit acidity and illustrates the domestication routes of modern citrus varieties. Current Biology, 29 (1) : p. 158-164.

De Ollas C., Morillon R., Fotopoulos V., Puértolas J., Ollitrault P., Gómez-Cadenas A., Arbona V. 2019. Facing climate change: Biotechnology of iconic mediterranean woody crops. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10 : 23 p.

Santos Dória M., Silva Guedes M., De Andrade Silva E.M., Magalhaes De Oliveira T., Pirovani C.P., Kupper K.C., Bastianel M., Micheli F. 2019. Comparative proteomics of two citrus varieties in response to infection by the fungus Alternaria alternata. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 136 : p. 410-423.

Oustric J, Morillon R, Ollitrault P.,, Herbette S, Luro, F., Froelicher Y., Tur I., Dambier D., Giannettini J, Berti L, Santini J. (2018) Somatic hybridization between diploid Poncirus and Citrus improves natural chilling and light stress tolerances compared with equivalent doubled-diploid genotypes. Trees, /doi.org/10.1007/s00468-018-1682-3.

Integrate research results to optimize varietal creation

Montalt R., Cuenca J., Vives M.C., Navarro L., Ollitrault P., Aleza P. 2019. Influence of temperature on the progamic phase in Citrus. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 166 : 11 p.

Ruiz M., Pensabene-Bellavia G., Quinones A., Garcia-Lor A., Morillon R., Ollitrault P., Primo-Millo E., Navarro L., Aleza P. 2018. Molecular characterization and stress tolerance evaluation of new allotetraploid somatic hybrids between carrizo citrange and Citrus macrophylla W. rootstocks. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9 : 22 p.

Cuenca J., Aleza P., Garcia-Lor A., Ollitrault P., Navarro L.. 2016. Fine mapping for identification of citrus alternaria brown spot candidate resistance genes and development of new SNP markers for marker-assisted selection. Frontiers in Plant Science, 7 (1948) : 13 p..