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...
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.
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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
#Rust on brown knapweed (#Centaurea jacea agg.) likely caused by #Puccinia jaceae, found today along the Ru de Gally (Villepreux, France) while collecting diseased plants to prepare for next weekend’s French Science Festival #FêteDeLaScience.
October 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Plasticity in initial infection traits in response to high #temperature for worldwide representative #Puccinia striiformis isolates @inrae-bioger.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.fg...
October 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
📣 offre de #stage #Master2 #IngénieurAgro 🧑‍🎓 début 2026 @INRAE_IDF #BIOGER #AgroParisTech en #phytopathologie, #épidémiologie végétale, #écologie : "Etude de la survie de la rouille noire du #blé, entre compartiments naturel et cultivé".
Détails ▶️ bioger.versailles-saclay.hub.inrae.fr/equipes-et-p...
September 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
#Rust on various-leaved fescue (#Festuca heterophylla), caused by #Uromyces festucae or #Puccinia festucae (?) 🤔(Les Clayes-sous-Bois, FR).
September 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
#Rust on bramble (#Rubus fruticosus) caused by #Kuehneola uredinis, here with white telia/teliospores hyperparasitized by #Tuberculina persicina (Les Clayes-sous-Bois, FR).
September 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Inflorescences of #Lolium perenne heavily infected with ergots of #Claviceps purpurea, themselves colonized (hyperparasitized?) by #Fusarium heterosporum (syn. F. lolii), which form orange sporodochia at the base of the sclerotia (Villepreux, FR) — see Gay & Shattock (1980).
September 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
#Mildew of broadleaf plantain (#Pantago major) caused by #Golovinomyces sordidus syn. #Erysiphe sordida (Villepreux, FR).
September 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
#Rust of hedge bindweed (#Calystegia sepium) caused by #Puccinia convolvuli, here with uredinia & telia, found, along the Ru de Gally (Villepreux, FR).
September 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
#Rust on reed canary grass (#Phalaris arundinacea) likely caused by #Puccinia sessilis, hyperparasitized by Sphaerellopsis sp., along the Ru de Gally (Villepreux, FR).
September 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
#Rust on leaves of tall fescue (Schedonorus arundinaceus syn. Lolium arundinaceum) caused by #Puccinia graminis, heavily hyperparasitized by Sphaerellopsis sp., along the Ru de Gally (Villepreux, FR).
September 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
#Rust of lady's thumb (#Persicaria maculosa) caused by #Puccinia polygoni-amphibii — here hyperparasitized by Sphaerellopsis sp. — found along the Ru de Gally (Villepreux, FR).
September 20, 2025 at 6:49 AM