Highlights 2025

The EVO team from Laboratoire de recherche en sciences végétales (LRSV - CNRS/Toulouse INP/Université de Toulouse) in Toulouse has just unveiled an unsuspected mechanism in plant evolution. A relatively unstudied plant specie, Marchantia polymorpha, carries in its genetic heritage traces of an exchange with fungi that would have occurred half a billion years ago. The study, published on February 17 in Nature Genetics, points out that this gene transfer is at the origin of the colonization of emerged lands by the plant kingdom.

In March 2025, researchers from LIPME's REACH team published an article in Cell Reports that placed the negative impact of temperature on immune receptors upstream of defense activation.

A large international consortium lead by Pablo Tedesco from CRBE, published an article in PNAS that showed that frugivorous poissons play a very important role in the diversity and propagation of tree species in the floodplains of the Amazon basin.

Researchers form IHPE, published in Science of Total Environment, their findings that enhance understanding of oyster-POMS interactions and highlight epigenetic biomarkers for disease management and oyster health

A study published in Scientific Reports by researchers from CRBE, explores the combined impact of biological and environmental factors on the hearing sensitivity of 450 individuals in thirteen populations around the world.

In Nature Climate Change, CRBE's CIRCE team and their European colleagues predict that the photosynthetic activity of microalgae in peat bogs could offset up to 14% of future CO2 emissions.

Researchers from SETE published in Science, results that suggest a new fundamental law in the structure of ecological communities and show that the impacts of changes in species richness on biomass are predictable.

The EFIS team from LIPME published a review in Nature Communication, in which they identified a class of LysM-RLK receptors in angiosperms with unique biochemical properties and a role in both LCO and CO perception for AM establishment.

Reseaerchers from IHPE, in an article published in Coral DNA, demonstrate that ancient DNA reveals the temporal dynamics of host/symbiont interactions in corals over the past century and open new perspectives on the microevolution of corals in response to contemporary climate change.