Highlights 2026

EVO team from LRSV published a review in PNAS which focused on flowering plants, nonvascular plants being largely unexplored. This work emphasizes the value of exploring underrepresented plant lineages to uncover biological processes.

Downy mildew caused by the oomycete Plasmopara halstedii threatens sunflower crops worldwide. Scientists from the Plant-Microorganism-Environment Interactions Laboratory (LIPME) at the INRAE Occitanie-Toulouse center and the Center for Research on Biodiversity and the Environment (CRBE) have studied how resistance to this disease has repeatedly collapsed in France over the past few decades, leading to the emergence of new virulent strains.

Nicolas Frei dit Frey, researcher at LRSV, published a study in New Phytologyst, that provide insights into the increasingly complex roles of CLEs in plant development and nutrient signaling.

In a study published in Global Change Biology, researchers from the CNRS, including Romain Bertrand, a member of the CRBE's DEEP team, show that temperate forests rich in tree species are more resistant to intensifying water stress and maintain their productivity more sustainably in the face of climate change.

As global warming alters the distribution of life, an international study published in PNAS, composef with CRBE researchers, reveals a significant discrepancy between scientific predictions and observed reality: species are moving up to four times faster than climate models anticipate.

The RAP team at LIPME has published an article in Plant Physiology on the first quantitative metabolic model of a pathosystem, covering all plant pathosystems.