Didier Tharreau

8.3k citations
98 papers · 5.1k · 2 hit papers · h-index 36

Impact in

  • Plant Science top 0.2%
    • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
    • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
    • Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
    • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
    • Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food
  • Cell Biology top 0.5%
    • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases

Papers in

  • Plant Science 88
    • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity 36
    • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics 29
    • Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food 24
    • Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement 15
    • GABA and Rice Research 9
  • Cell Biology 47
    • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases 47
Co-authors
Marc‐Henri Lebrun (26 shared papers)Jean‐Loup Nottéghem (13 shared papers)Elisabeth Fournier (20 shared papers)Joëlle Milazzo (23 shared papers)Isabelle Fudal (3 shared papers)J. L. Nottéghem (5 shared papers)Henri Adreit (26 shared papers)Waly Dioh (3 shared papers)
Journals
Plant Pathology (6 papers)Phytopathology (5 papers)Fungal Genetics and Biology (5 papers)New Phytologist (5 papers)Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (4 papers)
Partner nations
FranceChinaUnited States

In The Last Decade

Didier Tharreau

95 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Didier Tharreau's Hit Papers

Epigenetic regulation of antagonistic receptors confers rice blast resistance with yield balance 2017 · 462 citations
4620+4+8Years since publication100200300400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

  • it has ≥500 total citations;
  • it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
  • it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.
  1. 2017 Science
  2. 2013 The Plant Cell

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Didier Tharreau
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  • Plant Science 4.5k
  • Cell Biology 1.7k
  • Molecular Biology 2.1k
  • Genetics 701
  • Biotechnology 197
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Epigenetic regulation of antagonistic receptors confers rice blast resistance with yield balance
Science ·Yiwen Deng, Keran Zhai, Zhen Xie, Dongyong Yang, Xudong Zhu, Junzhong Liu, Xin Wang, Peng Qin, Yuanzhu Yang, Guomin Zhang, Qun Li, Jianfu Zhang, Shuangqing Wu, Joëlle Milazzo, Bizeng Mao, Ertao Wang, Huaan Xie, Didier Tharreau, Zuhua He
Hit paper breakdown →		2017462
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The Rice Resistance Protein Pair RGA4/RGA5 Recognizes the Magnaporthe oryzae Effectors AVR-Pia and AVR1-CO39 by Direct Binding 
The Plant Cell ·Stella Césari, Gaëtan Thilliez, Cécile Ribot, Véronique Chalvon, Corinne Michel, Alain Jauneau, Susana Rivas, Ludovic Alaux, Hiroyuki Kanzaki, Yudai Okuyama, Jean‐Benoit Morel, Elisabeth Fournier, Didier Tharreau, Ryohei Terauchi, Thomas Kroj
Hit paper breakdown →		2013397
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A Putative Polyketide Synthase/Peptide Synthetase fromMagnaporthe griseaSignals Pathogen Attack to Resistant Rice[W]
The Plant Cell ·Heidi U. Böhnert, Isabelle Fudal, Waly Dioh, Didier Tharreau, Jean‐Loup Nottéghem, Marc‐Henri Lebrun
2004270
4
A Genome-Wide Meta-Analysis of Rice Blast Resistance Genes and Quantitative Trait Loci Provides New Insights into Partial and Complete Resistance
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions ·Elsa Ballini, Jean‐Benoît Morel, Gaëtan Droc, Adam H. Price, Brigitte Courtois, Jean‐Loup Nottéghem, Didier Tharreau
2008265
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Origins of Host-Specific Populations of the Blast Pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae in Crop Domestication With Subsequent Expansion of Pandemic Clones on Rice and Weeds of Rice
Genetics ·Brett C. Couch, Isabelle Fudal, Marc‐Henri Lebrun, Didier Tharreau, Barbara Valent, Pham Van Kim, Jean‐Loup Nottéghem, Linda M. Kohn
2005258
6
Arms race co‐evolution ofMagnaporthe oryzae AVR‐Pikand ricePikgenes driven by their physical interactions
The Plant Journal ·Hiroyuki Kanzaki, Kentaro Yoshida, Hiromasa Saitoh, Koki Fujisaki, Akiko Hirabuchi, Ludovic Alaux, Elisabeth Fournier, Didier Tharreau, Ryohei Terauchi
2012214
7
Constitutive Expression ofOsGH3.1Reduces Auxin Content and Enhances Defense Response and Resistance to a Fungal Pathogen in Rice
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions ·Concha Domingo, Fernando Andrés, Didier Tharreau, Domingo J. Iglesias, Manuel Talón
2009166
8
Identification of five new blast resistance genes in the highly blast-resistant rice variety IR64 using a QTL mapping strategy
Theoretical and Applied Genetics ·Christophe Sallaud, M. Lorieux, E. Roumen, Didier Tharreau, Romain Berruyer, P. Svestasrani, Olivier Garsmeur, Alain Ghesquière, J. L. Nottéghem
2003163
9
Gene Flow between Divergent Cereal- and Grass-Specific Lineages of the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae
mBio ·Pierre Gladieux, Bradford Condon, Sébastien Ravel, Darren M. Soanes, João Leodato Nunes Maciel, A. Nhani, Li Chen, Ryohei Terauchi, Marc‐Henri Lebrun, Didier Tharreau, Thomas K. Mitchell, Kerry F. Pedley, Barbara Valent, Nicholas J. Talbot, Mark Farman, Elisabeth Fournier
2018160
10
Resolving the polyphyletic nature ofPyricularia(Pyriculariaceae)
Studies in Mycology ·Sylvia Klaubauf, Didier Tharreau, Elisabeth Fournier, J.Z. Groenewald, P.W. Crous, Ronald P. de Vries, Marc‐Henri Lebrun
2014155
11
Challenges of microsatellite isolation in fungi
Fungal Genetics and Biology ·Cyril Dutech, Jérôme Enjalbert, Elisabeth Fournier, François Delmotte, Benoît Barrès, Jean Carlier, Didier Tharreau, Tatiana Giraud
2007151
12
Susceptibility of rice to the blast fungus, Magnaporthe grisea
Journal of Plant Physiology ·Cécile Ribot, Judith Hirsch, Sandrine Balzergue, Didier Tharreau, Jean‐Loup Nottéghem, Marc‐Henri Lebrun, Jean‐Benoît Morel
2007143
13
PLS1 , a gene encoding a tetraspanin-like protein, is required for penetration of rice leaf by the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe grisea
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Pierre-Henri Clergeot, Mathieu Gourgues, Joaquim Cots, Françoise Laurans, Marie‐Pascale Latorse, Régis Pépin, Didier Tharreau, Jean‐Loup Nottéghem, Marc‐Henri Lebrun
2001131
14
Identification and fine mapping of Pi33, the rice resistance gene corresponding to the Magnaporthe grisea avirulence gene ACE1
Theoretical and Applied Genetics ·Romain Berruyer, Henri Adreit, Joëlle Milazzo, Sylvain Gaillard, Angélique Berger, Waly Dioh, Marc‐Henri Lebrun, Didier Tharreau
2003129
15
Evidence of a Gene-for-Gene Relationship in the Oryza sativa-Magnaporthe grisea Pathosystem
Phytopathology ·D. Silué, J. L. Nottéghem, Didier Tharreau
2007127
16
Transgenic Rice Plants Expressing the Antifungal AFP Protein from Aspergillus Giganteus Show Enhanced Resistance to the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe Grisea
Plant Molecular Biology ·María Coca, Cristina Bortolotti, Mar Rufat, Gisela Peñas, Ramón Eritja, Didier Tharreau, Álvaro Martínez‐del‐Pozo, Joaquima Messeguer, Blanca San Segundo
2004102
17
South‐East Asia is the center of origin, diversity and dispersion of the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae
New Phytologist ·Dounia Saleh, Joëlle Milazzo, Henri Adreit, Elisabeth Fournier, Didier Tharreau
201395
18
Sex at the origin: an Asian population of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae reproduces sexually
Molecular Ecology ·Dounia Saleh, Peng Xu, Ying Shen, CHENGUYN LI, Henri Adreit, Joëlle Milazzo, Virginie Ravigné, Éric Bazin, Jean‐Loup Nottéghem, Elisabeth Fournier, Didier Tharreau
201279
19
Generic names in Magnaporthales
IMA Fungus ·Ning Zhang, Jing Luo, Amy Y. Rossman, Takayuki Aoki, Izumi Chuma, P.W. Crous, Ralph A. Dean, Ronald P. de Vries, Nicole Donofrio, Kevin D. Hyde, Marc‐Henri Lebrun, Nicholas J. Talbot, Didier Tharreau, Yukio Tosa, Barbara Valent, Zonghua Wang, Jin‐Rong Xu
201679
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Mapping of Avirulence Genes in the Rice Blast Fungus, Magnaporthe grisea, with RFLP and RAPD Markers
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions ·Waly Dioh, Didier Tharreau, J. L. Nottéghem, Marc J. Orbach, Marc‐Henri Lebrun
200076

About Didier Tharreau

Didier Tharreau is a scholar working on Plant Science, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pharmacology, having authored 98 papers that have together received 5.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (47 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (36 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (34 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (29 papers), Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food (24 papers), Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement (15 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (14 papers) and GABA and Rice Research (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Plant Science (4.5k citations), Cell Biology (1.7k citations), Molecular Biology (2.1k citations), Genetics (701 citations) and Biotechnology (197 citations). Didier Tharreau has collaborated with scholars based in France, China and United States. Frequent co-authors include Marc‐Henri Lebrun, Jean‐Loup Nottéghem, Elisabeth Fournier, Joëlle Milazzo, Isabelle Fudal, J. L. Nottéghem, Henri Adreit, Waly Dioh, Jean‐Benoît Morel and Ryohei Terauchi. Their work appears in journals such as Plant Pathology, Phytopathology, Fungal Genetics and Biology, New Phytologist and Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions.

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