Highlights 2026

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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.