Main/Recent publications
Gentzbittel L, Ben C, Mazurier M, Min-Gyoung S, Lorenz T, Rickauer M, Marjoram P, Nuzhdin S, Tatarinova T. (2019) WhoGEM: an admixture-based prediction machine accurately predicts quantitative functional traits in plants. Genome Biol., https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-019-1697-0.
Toueni M, Ben C, Leru A, Gentzbittel L, Rickauer M. (2016) Quantitative resistance to Verticillium wilt in Medicago truncatula involves eradication of the fungus from roots and is associated to transcriptional responses related to innate immunity. Frontiers in Plant Sci.,Frontiers in Plant Sci., http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.01431
Gentzbittel L, Andersen SU, Ben C, Rickauer M, Stougaard J, Cook DR, Young ND. Naturally occuring diversity helps to reveal genes of adaptive importance in legumes. Front. Plant Sci. http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2015.00269/abstract
Formey D*, Sallet E*, Lelandais-Brière C*, Ben C*, Bustos-Sanmamed P, Niebel A, Frugier F, Combier JP, Hartmann C, Wincker P, Roux C, Gentzbittel L, Gouzy J, Crespi M. (2014) Diversity, conservation and plasticity of the miRNAome from Medicago truncatula roots under symbiotic and pathogenic interactions, Genome Biology,15:457. (*These authors contributed equally to the work – Research highlight by Huan Wang & Nam-Hai Chua,Genome Biology 2014, 15:475)
Ben C, Toueni M, Montanari S, Tardin MC, Fervel M, Negahi A, Saint-Pierre L, Mathieu G, Gras MC, Noël D, Prospéri JM, Pilet-Nayel ML, Baranger A, Huguet T, Julier B, Rickauer M, Gentzbittel L. (2013) Natural diversity in the model legume Medicago truncatula allows identifying distinct genetic mechanisms conferring partial resistance to Verticillium wilt. J Exp Bot. 64(1):317-32.
Branca A, Paape T, Zhou P, Briskine R, Farmer A, Mudge J, Bharti A, Woodward J, May G, Gentzbittel L, Ben C, Denny R, Sadowsky M, Ronfort J, Bataillon T, Young N, Tiffin P (2011) Whole-genome nucleotide diversity, recombination, and linkage-disequilibrium in the model legume Medicago truncatula. PNAS 108(42):E864-70.
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES
Invited conferences
Ben C, Mazurier M, Rickauer M. and Gentzbittel L. (Oct. 22, 2018) Genome wide analysis of quantitative disease resistance against Verticillium wilt in Medicago truncatula: From quantitative genetics to candidate gene validation. Centre de Biotechnologies de Borj Cedria (CBBC), Tunisia
Ben C., Toueni M., Rickauer M., MIRMED consortium, Andersen S.U., Kelly S. and Gentzbittel L.(2018) Omics approaches to help decipher molecular control of root biotic interactions in legumes. 11th International Multiconference “Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and StructureSystems Biology” -BGRSSB-2018-, Section «Genomics, transcriptomics and bioinformatics», 21 August 2018, Novosibirsk, Russia
Mazurier M., Toueni M., Sbeiti A., Tardin M.C., Gras M.C., Rickauer M., Gentzbittel L. and Ben C. (2018) Genome wide analysis of quantitative disease resistance against Verticillium wilt in the model legume Medicago truncatula. 11th International Multiconference “Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and StructureSystems Biology” -BGRSSB-2018-, Section « Bioinformatics and systems biology of plants», 22 August 2018, Novosibirsk, Russia
Tatarinova T.V., Gentzbittel L. and Ben C. (2018) Whole-Genome Approach to Plant Phenotype Prediction. 11th International Multiconference “Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and StructureSystems Biology” -BGRSSB-2018-, Section « Single-cell genomics: Neuroscience, Biodiversity and Evolution; BioGenEvo-2018», 23 August 2018, Novosibirsk, Russia
Ben C, Toueni M, Rickauer M., MIRMED consortium, Gentzbittel L. (April 12, 2017) “-Omics to help in identifying breeding targets for quantitative resistances to root pathogens in legumes”. Vavilov Institute for Plant Genetic Resources, St Petersburg, Russia
Ben C, Toueni M, Rickauer M., MIRMED consortium, Gentzbittel L. (April 6, 2017) “-omics approaches to help in deciphering molecular regulations of quantitative resistances to soil-borne pathogens in M. truncatula”. Workshop on ‘Modulation of plant responses to diseases as a function of abiotic stress and climate change’, Centre de Biotechnologies de Borj Cedria (CBBC), Tunisia
Ben C,Mazurier M, Tatarinova. T, Gentzbittel L. (Nov. 16 & 17, 2016) “Could an integrative approach merging whole-genome and bio-climatic data help in developing innovative biodiversity-based cropping systems to mitigate global climate change impacts?”, IVème Journées Scientifiques Internationales de l’INAT, Tunis, Tunisia
Ben C, Toueni M, Mazurier M, Negahi A, Sbeiti A, Tatarinova T, Turner M, Shamandi N., Vailleau F, Nuzhdin S, Marjoram P, Rickauer M., Gentzbittel L. (Nov. 15, 2016) “Genetics & Genomics of Quantitative Disease Resistance against root pathogens in Medicago truncatula”. Centre de Biotechnologies de Borj Cedria (CBBC), Tunisia
Ben C, Toueni M, Mazurier M, Negahi A, Rickauer M., Gentzbittel L. (Sept. 15, 2015) “Genetics & Genomics of Quantitative Disease Resistance against root pathogens inMedicago truncatula”.‘Medicago genetics & genomics’ mini-symposium, Port-La-Nouvelle, France
Ben C, Toueni M, Mazurier M, Negahi A, Sbeiti A, Tatarinova T, Turner M, Shamandi N., Vailleau F, Nuzhdin S, Marjoram P, Rickauer M., Gentzbittel L. (Aug. 31, Sept. 1 & 4, 2015 – Conferences cycle in the frame of the BLÅTAND Program 2015 organized by the French Embassy in Denmark) “Genetics & Genomics of Quantitative Disease Resistance against root pathogens in Medicago truncatula”. Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (MBG), in Aarhus Univ., AU-Foulum & AU-Flakkebjerg, Denmark
Ben C, Tatarinova T, Triska M, Mazurier M, Nuzhdin S, Gentzbittel L. (Jan. 17, 2015) “Using patterns of genetic variation within modern plant accessions to reveal ancestral genome admixture and to infer population adaptation in the wild legume species Medicago truncatula”. OIST Ancient DNA Symposium, Okinawa, Japan
Ben C, Formey D, Sallet E, Lelandais-Brière C, Shamandi N, , Bustos-Sanmamed P, Niebel A, Frugier F, Combier JP, Hartmann C, Wincker P, Roux C, Gouzy J, Crespi M, Gentzbittel L. (Dec. 19, 2014) “microRNAs as key regulators of symbiotic and pathogenic root interactome in the model legume Medicago truncatula” Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden CAS, Kunming, China
Ben C, Shamandi N, Lelandais C, Hartmann C, Sallet E, Gouzy J, Rickauer M, Crespi M and Gentzbittel L. (Nov. 07, 2012) “MicroRNA regulation of the root response to stress in the model legume Medicago truncatula– Salt Stress and Root Diseases as Paradigms” Seminars of the Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany CAS, China
International Congresses
Active participation to 11 international congresses in the 5 past years, where contributions include 12 talks (5 as the speaker including 3 invited talks at the 11th International Multiconference “Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and StructureSystems Biology” -BGRSSB-2018-August 2018, Novosibirsk, Russia – as mentionned above) and 11 posters selected by scientific advisory boards.
Selected oral presentations as the speaker
Ben C., Toueni M., Kelly S., Mun T., MIRMED consortium, Rickauer M., Stougaard J., Andersen S. U., Gentzbittel L. (2019) -Omics approaches to unravel molecular responses to root microbes in legumes. Moscow Conference on Computational Molecular Biology (MCCMB), 27-30 July 2019, Moscow, Russia
Ben C.,Gentzbittel L., Mazurier M., Rickauer M., Nuzdhin S., Tatarinova T. (2019) Mieux prédire l’adaptation des plantes et de leurs microorganismes associés au changement global en combinant génomique des populations et biogéographie ? ECOVEG 14, 24-26 Apr. 2019, Toulouse, France
Ben C, Lelandais C, Sallet E, Shamandi N, Gouzy J, Rickauer M, Crespi M and Gentzbittel L. (2010) Are microRNAs involved in the root response to stress in the model legume Medicago truncatula?. Conference on « miRNAs in plant and animal development », Nov. 2010, Paris, France
Ben C, Lelandais C, Hartmann C, Sallet E, Gouzy J, Rickauer M, Crespi M and Gentzbittel L.(2010) microRNAs regulation of biotic and abiotic stress responses: common and specific pathways? International Congress on Legumes Genetics & Genomics, Satellite Workshop on ‘MicroRNAs in Legumes’, July 4-10, 2010, Asilomar Conference Grounds, California, USA
Conference rapporteur at the VIth International Meeting on Oasis Agriculture and Sustainable Development « OASuD 2018”. 19-21 December 2018, Zarzis (Tunisia) for the 1st session dedicated to “Agro-diversity in Oasis Environment: Specific and intra-specific diversity of cultivated plants and agrosystems, management of phytogenetic resources, plant breeding and genetic improvement”.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS IN ISI JOURNALS
25 articles published in ISI Journals, h-index=12, # of citations: 428 (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cecile_Ben)
2019
Grigoreva E, Ulianich P, Ben C, Gentzbittel L, Potokina E. (2019) First insights into the guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.) genome of the ‘Vavilovskij 130’ accession, using second and third-generation sequencing technologies. Russian Journal of Genetics, 55(11), 1406-1416, DOI: 10.1134/S102279541911005X
Gentzbittel L, Ben C, Mazurier M, Min-Gyoung S, Lorenz T, Rickauer M, Marjoram P, Nuzhdin S, Tatarinova T. (2019) WhoGEM: an admixture-based prediction machine accurately predicts quantitative functional traits in plants. Genome Biol., https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-019-1697-0.
2018
Kelly S, Mun T, Stougaard J, Ben C, Andersen SU. (2018) Distinct Lotus japonicus transcriptomic responses to a spectrum of microbes ranging from pathogenic to symbiotic. Front. Plant Sci., DOI 10.3389/fpls.2018.01218
Yamchi A, Ben C, Rossignol M, Zareie SR, Mirlohi A, Sayed‐Tabatabaei BE, Pichereaux C, Sarrafi A, Rickauer M, Gentzbittel L. (2018) Proteomics analysis of Medicago truncatula response to infection by the phytopathogenic bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum points to jasmonate and salicylate defence pathways. Cellular Microbiology, e12796. DOI 10.1111/cmi.12796
2017
Cai F, Watson BS, Meek D, Huhman DV, Wherritt DJ, Ben C, Gentzbittel L, Driscoll BT, Sumner LW, Bede J. (2017) Medicago truncatula haemolytic saponin level is potentially correlated with caterpillar antixenosis resistance. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 43(7):712-724, DOI 10.1007/s10886-017-0863-7
Kadri A, Julier B, Laouar M, Ben C, Badri M, Chedded J, Mouhouche B, Gentzbittel L, Abdelguerfi A. (2017) Genetic determinism of reproductive fitness traits under drought stress in the model legume Medicago truncatula. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 39:227, DOI 0.1007/s11738-017-2527-1
2016
Toueni M, Ben C, Leru A, Gentzbittel L, Rickauer M. (2016) Quantitative resistance to Verticillium wilt in Medicago truncatula involves eradication of the fungus from roots and is associated to transcriptional responses related to innate immunity. Frontiers in Plant Sci.,Frontiers in Plant Sci., http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.01431
Youssef C., Aubry C., Montrichard F., Beucher D., Juchaux M., Ben C., Prosperi J.M., Béatrice Teulat. (2016) Cell length instead cell number becomes the predominant factor contributing to hypocotyl length genotypic differences under abiotic stress in Medicago truncatula. Physiologia Plantarum, 156: 108–124.
Rahoui S, Martinez Y, Sakouhi L, Chaoui A, Ben C, Rickauer M, Gentzbittel L, El Ferjani M. (2016) Cadmium-induced changes in antioxidative systems and differentiation in roots of contrasted Medicago truncatula lines. Protoplasma, doi: 10.1007/s00709-016-0968-9
2015
Gentzbittel L., Andersen S.U., Ben C., Rickauer M., Stougaard J., Cook D.R., Young N.D. Naturally occuring diversity helps to reveal genes of adaptive importance in legumes. Front. Plant Sci. http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2015.00269/abstract
Rahoui S, Chaoui A, Ben C, Rickauer M, Gentzbittel L, El Ferjani E. (2015) Effect of cadmium pollution on mobilization of embryo reserves in seedlings of six contrasted Medicago truncatula lines. Phytochemistry, pii: S0031-9422(14)00534-2. doi: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2014.12.002. [Epub ahead of print]
2014
Formey D*, Sallet E*, Lelandais-Brière C*, Ben C*, Bustos-Sanmamed P, Niebel A, Frugier F, Combier JP, Hartmann C, Wincker P, Roux C, Gentzbittel L, Gouzy J, Crespi M. (2014) Diversity, conservation and plasticity of the miRNAome from Medicago truncatula roots under symbiotic and pathogenic interactions, Genome Biology,15:457. (*These authors contributed equally to the work – Research highlight by Huan Wang & Nam-Hai Chua,Genome Biology 2014, 15:475)
Foroozanfar M, Exbrayat S, Gentzbittel L, Bertoni G, Maury P, Naghavie M, Peyghambari A, Badri M, Ben C, Debellé F, Sarrafi A. (2014) Genetic variability and identification of QTL affecting plant growth and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters in the model legume Medicago truncatula under control and salt conditions,Functional Plant Biology,41(9):983-1001.
Rahoui S, Ben C, Martinez Y, Chaoui A, Yamchi A, Rickauer M, Gentzbittel L, El Ferjani Ezzeddine. (2014) Oxidative injury and antioxidant genes regulation in six Medicago truncatula genotypes in response to cadmium treatment. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 21(13): 8070.
Negahi A, Ben C, Gentzbittel L, Maury P, Nabipour AR, Ebrahimi A, Sarrafi A, Rickauer M.Quantitative trait loci associated with resistance to a potato isolate of Verticillium albo-atrum in Medicago truncatula. (2014) Plant Pathol., 63(2): 308–315.
2013
Ben C, Debellé F, Berges H, Bellec A, Jardinaud MF, Anson P, Huguet T, Gentzbittel L, Vailleau F. (2013) MtQRRS1, a R-locus required for Medicago truncatula Quantitative Resistance to Ralstonia solanacearum. New Phytol.199(3):758-72.
Ben C, Toueni M, Montanari S, Tardin MC, Fervel M, Negahi A, Saint-Pierre L, Mathieu G, Gras MC, Noël D, Prospéri JM, Pilet-Nayel ML, Baranger A, Huguet T, Julier B, Rickauer M, Gentzbittel L. (2013) Natural diversity in the model legume Medicago truncatula allows identifying distinct genetic mechanisms conferring partial resistance to Verticillium wilt. J Exp Bot. 64(1):317-32.
Negahi A, Sarrafi A, Ebrahimi A, Maury P, Prospéri JM, Ben C, Rickauer M. (2013). Genetic variability of tolerance to Verticillium albo-atrum and Verticillium dahliae in Medicago truncatula, Eur. J Plant Pathol., 136:135–143.
2012
Yang Y, Chen J, Liu Q, Ben C, Todd CD, Shi J, Yang Y, Hu X. (2012) Comparative Proteomic Analysis of the Thermotolerant Plant Portulaca oleracea Acclimation to Combined High Temperature and Humidity Stress. J Proteome Res. 11(7):3605-23.
Moreau D, Burstin J, Aubert G, Huguet T, Ben C, Prosperi JM, Salon C, Munier-Jolain N. (2012) Using a physiological framework for improving the detection of quantitative trait loci related to nitrogen nutrition in Medicago truncatula.Theor Appl Genet. 124(4):755-68.
2011
Branca A, Paape T, Zhou P, Briskine R, Farmer A, Mudge J, Bharti A, Woodward J, May G, Gentzbittel L, Ben C, Denny R, Sadowsky M, Ronfort J, Bataillon T, Young N, Tiffin P (2011) Whole-genome nucleotide diversity, recombination, and linkage-disequilibrium in the model legume Medicago truncatula. PNAS 108(42):E864-70.
2005-2010
Stewart S, Hodge S, Mansfield J, Prosperi JM, Huguet T, Ben C, Gentzbittel L, Powell G. (2009) The RAP1 gene confers extreme resistance to the pea aphid in Medicago truncatula without engaging the hypersensitive reaction. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 12, 1645-1655.
Ben C, Hewezi T, Jardinaud MF, Bena F, Ladouce N, Moretti S, Tamborindeguy C, Liboz T, Petitprez M, Gentzbittel L. (2005) Comparative analysis of early embryonic sunflower cDNA libraries. Plant Mol Biol. 57(2):255-70.
Tamborindeguy C, Ben C, Liboz T, Gentzbittel L. (2004) Sequence evaluation of four specific cDNA libraries for developmental genomics of sunflower. Mol Genet Genomics. 271(3):367-75.
Tamborindeguy C, Ben C, Jardinaud F, Gentzbittel L, Liboz T. (2004) Mass cloning of differential and non differential transcript-derived fragments from cDNA-AFLP experiments in sunflower. Plant Mol. Biol. Rep. 22(2):165-171.
Submitted, under review & in revisions
Chaouachi M, Marzouk T, Jallouli S, Elkahoui S, Gentzbittel L, Ben C*, Djébali N*. Activity assessment of tomato endophytic bacteria bioactive compounds for the biocontrol of Botrytis cinerea. Submitted to Biological Control (on May 21, 2020). * Co-corresponding authors.
Final preparation
Sbeiti A, Mazurier M, Ben C, Rickauer M, Gentzbittel L. Global warming modifies root antagonistic interactions, promotes pathogen virulence and aggressiveness and may indirectly affect the distribution of resistant plant populations. Pending Submission.
Amokrane MSY, Laouar M, Ben C, Kadri A, Julier B, Abdelguerfi A, Gentzbittel L. Functional traits diversity and fitness evaluation in response to salt stress in some Medicago spp wild populations. Pending Submission.
Chaouachi M, Marzouk T, Hajri S, Fridhi W, Werghimi F, Ben Slimene I, Jallouli S, Elkahoui S, Gentzbittel L, Ben C, Djébali N. Collection, screening and evaluation of endophytic bacteria for biological control of Botrytis cinerea on tomato fruits. Final preparation.
Mazurier M, Ben C, Rickauer M, Gentzbittel L. MtSEC14, a factor of susceptibility putatively implicated in vesicule trafficking, is involved in quantitative resistance to Verticillium wilt in the legume Medicago truncatula. In preparation.
Mabrouk Y, Ameline-Torregrosa C, Ben C, San Clemente H, Rotter B, Winter P, Gentzbittel L, Rickauer M. Global gene expression changes in the model legume plant Medicago truncatula in response to infection with the fungal pathogen Ascochyta pisi assessed by deep SuperSAGE. In preparation.
