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Institute of Plant Sciences of Paris-Saclay (IPS2),
University Paris-Saclay, France
E-mail: abdelhafid.bendahmane@inrae.fr
https://ips2.u-psud.fr/fr/recherche/dgg-departement-genomique-et-genetique-du-developpement/flocad-developpement-floral-et-determinisme-du-sexe.html
Area of expertise: translational biology, sex determination, plant pollinator, plant reproductive biology
Selected Publications:
Zhang, S., Tan, F. Q., Chung, C. H., Slavkovic, F., Devani, R. S., Troadec, C., Marcel, F., Morin, H., Camps, C., Gomez Roldan, M. V., Benhamed, M., Dogimont, C., Boualem, A., and Bendahmane, A. (2022). The control of carpel determinacy pathway leads to sex determination in cucurbits. Science 378: 543–549.
Boualem, A., Troadec, C., Camps, C., Lemhemdi, A., Morin, H., Sari, M. A., Fraenkel-Zagouri, R., Kovalski, I., Dogimont, C., Perl-Treves, R., and Bendahmane, A. (2015). A cucurbit androecy gene reveals how unisexual flowers develop and dioecy emerges. Science 350: 688–691.
Martin, A., Troadec, C., Boualem, A., Rajab, M., Fernandez, R., Morin, H., Pitrat, M., Dogimont, C., and Bendahmane, A. (2009). A transposon-induced epigenetic changes leads to sex determination in melon. Nature 461: 1135–1139
Boualem, A., Fergany, M., Fernandez, R., Troadec, C., Martin, A., Morin, H., Sari, M. A., Collin, F., Flowers, J. M., Pitrat, M., Purugganan, M. D., Dogimont, C., and Bendahmane, A. (2008). A Conserved Mutation in an Ethylene Biosynthesis Enzyme Leads to Andromonoecy in Melons. Science 321: 336–338.
Slavković, F., Boualem, A., Dogimont, C., and Bendahmane, A. (2024). Phenotyping floral attractiveness to pollinators using volatilomics, 3D-imaging and pollinator monitoring. Mol. Plant S1674-2052(24)00191-6.
Huang, H. Y., Zhang, S., Choucha, F. A., Verdenaud, M., Tan, F. Q., Pichot, C., Parsa, H. S., Slavkovic, F., Chen, Q., Troadec, C., Marcel, F., Dogimont, C., Quadrana, L., Boualem, A., and Bendahmane, A. (2024). Harbinger transposon insertion in ethylene signaling gene leads to emergence of new sexual forms in cucurbits. Nat. Commun. 15: 4877
Boualem, A., Berthet, S., Devani, R. S., Camps, C., Fleurier, S., Morin, H., Troadec, C., Giovinazzo, N., Sari, N., Dogimont, C., and Bendahmane, A. (2022). Ethylene plays a dual role in sex determination and fruit shape in cucurbits. Curr. Biol. 32: 2390–2401.e4
Rashid, D., Devani, R. S., Rodriguez-Granados, N. Y., Abou-Choucha, F., Troadec, C., Morin, H., Tan, F. Q., Marcel, F., Huang, H. Y., Hanique, M., Zhang, S., Verdenaud, M., Pichot, C., Rittener, V., Huang, Y., Benhamed, M., Dogimont, C., Boualem, A., and Bendahmane, A. (2023). Ethylene produced in carpel primordia controls CmHB40 expression to inhibit stamen development. Nat. Plants 9: 1675–1687.
Du, Y., Roldan, M. V. G., Haraghi, A., Haili, N., Izhaq, F., Verdenaud, M., Boualem, A., and Bendahmane, A. (2022). Spatially expressed WIP genes control Arabidopsis embryonic root morphogenesis. Nat. Plants 8: 635–645.
Clepet, C., Devani, R. S., Boumlik, R., Hao, Y., Morin, H., Marcel, F., Verdenaud, M., Mania, B., Brisou, G., Citerne, S., Mouille, G., Lepeltier, J. C., Koussevitzky, S., Boualem, A., and Bendahmane, A. (2021). The miR166-SlHB15A regulatory module controls ovule development and parthenocarpic fruit set under adverse temperatures in tomato. Mol Plant. 14: 1185–1198.
Selected Registered Patents
Bendahmane A, Troadec C, Boualem A, J. Fauve, Hosemans D. (Patent, delivered 2014) Androecious cucurbit plants, methods of obtaining and uses of said cucurbit plants US20140359896
Bendahmane A, Boualem A, Dogimont C, Troadec C. Identification of a new gene involved in sex determination in cucurbitaceae. pct/ep2022/060184
Boualem A, Bendahmane A. Augmentation de la densité de trichomes glandulaires et de production de métabolites d’intérêt. PAT2616298EP00
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