Publications

Soledad Traubenik, Mauricio Alberto Reynoso, Francisco Sánchez-Rodríguez, Milagros Yacullo, Aurelie Christ, Maureen Hummel, Thomas Blein, Martín Crespi, Julia Bailey-Serres, Flavio Antonio Blanco, María Eugenia Zanetti (2025). Subunit 3 of the SUPERKILLER complex mediates microRNA172-directed cleavage of Nodule Number Control 1 in Medicago truncatula. Plant physiology.

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Pablo Mammi, Thomas Blein (2025). From non-coding to chromatin regulators: VIVIpary and the rise of lncRNAs in plant biology. Molecular plant.

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Nicolás Gaggion, Rodrigo Bonazzola, María Florencia Legascue, María Florencia Mammarella, Florencia Sol Rodriguez, Federico Emanuel Aballay, Florencia Belén Catulo, Andana Barrios, Franco Accavallo, Santiago Nahuel Villarreal, Martin Crespi, Martiniano María Ricardi, Ezequiel Petrillo, Thomas Blein, Federico Ariel, Enzo Ferrante (2025). ChronoRoot 2.0: An Open AI-Powered Platform for 2D Temporal Plant Phenotyping. arXiv.

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Andana Barrios, Nicolas Gaggion, Natanael Mansilla, Thomas Blein, Céline Sorin, Leandro Lucero, Enzo Ferrante, Martin Crespi, Federico Ariel (2025). The transcription factor NF-YA10 determines the area explored by Arabidopsis thaliana roots and directly regulates LAZY genes. The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology.

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Taline Elmayan, Thomas Blein, Emilie Elvira-Matelot, Ivan Le Masson, Aurelie Christ, Nathalie Bouteiller, Martin D Crespi, Hervé Vaucheret (2025). Arabidopsis SGS3 is recruited to chromatin by CHR11 to select RNA that initiate siRNA production. Nature communications.

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J Bazin, M Crespi (2024). When splicing meets transgene DNA methylation to uncover elite alleles for plant yield. The New phytologist.

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Luca Argirò, Carole Laffont, Corentin Moreau, Carol Moreau, Yangyang Su, Marjorie Pervent, Hugues Parrinello, Thomas Blein, Wouter Kohlen, Marc Lepetit, Florian Frugier (2024). The Compact Root Architecture 2 systemic pathway is required for the repression of cytokinins and miR399 accumulation in Medicago truncatula N-limited plants. Journal of experimental botany.

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Soledad Traubenik, Céline Charon, Thomas Blein (2024). From environmental responses to adaptation: the roles of plant lncRNAs. Plant physiology.

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Li Liu, Michel Heidecker, Thomas Depuydt, Nicolas Manosalva Perez, Martin Crespi, Thomas Blein, Klaas Vandepoele (2023). Transcription factors KANADI 1, MYB DOMAIN PROTEIN 44, and PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR 4 regulate long intergenic noncoding RNAs expressed in Arabidopsis roots. Plant physiology.

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Thomas Roulé, María Florencia Legascue, Andana Barrios, Nicolás Gaggion, Martin Crespi, Federico Ariel, Thomas Blein (2023). The long intergenic noncoding RNA ARES modulates root architecture in Arabidopsis. IUBMB life.

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Wil Prall, Arsheed H Sheikh, Jeremie Bazin, Jean Bigeard, Marilia Almeida-Trapp, Martin Crespi, Heribert Hirt, Brian D Gregory (2023). Pathogen-induced m6A dynamics affect plant immunity. The Plant cell.

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Jérémie Bazin, Emilie Elvira-Matelot, Thomas Blein, Vincent Jauvion, Nathalie Bouteiller, Jun Cao, Martin D Crespi, Hervé Vaucheret (2023). Synergistic action of the Arabidopsis spliceosome components PRP39a and SmD1b in promoting posttranscriptional transgene silencing. The Plant cell.

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Andana Barrios, Nicolas Gaggion, Natanael Mansilla, Leandro Lucero, Thomas Blein, Céline Sorin, Enzo Ferrante, Martin Crespi, Federico Ariel (2023). The transcription factor NF-YA10 determines the area explored by Arabidopsis thaliana roots through direct regulation of LAZY and TAC genes. bioRxiv.

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Ying Huang, Jing An, Sanchari Sircar, Clara Bergis, Chloé Dias Lopes, Xiaoning He, Barbara Da Costa, Feng-Quan Tan, Jeremie Bazin, Javier Antunez-Sanchez, Maria Florencia Mammarella, Ravi-Sureshbhai Devani, Rim Brik-Chaouche, Abdelhafid Bendahmane, Florian Frugier, Chongjing Xia, Christophe Rothan, Aline v Probst, Zouine Mohamed, Catherine Bergounioux, Marianne Delarue, Yijing Zhang, Shaojian Zheng, Martin Crespi, Sotirios Fragkostefanakis, Magdy M Mahfouz, Federico Ariel, Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Cécile Raynaud, David Latrasse, Moussa Benhamed (2023). HSFA1a modulates plant heat stress responses and alters the 3D chromatin organization of enhancer-promoter interactions. Nature communications.

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Camille Fonouni-Farde, Aurelie Christ, Thomas Blein, María Florencia Legascue, Lucía Ferrero, Michaël Moison, Leandro Lucero, Juan Sebastián Ramírez-Prado, David Latrasse, Daniel Gonzalez, Moussa Benhamed, Leandro Quadrana, Martin Crespi, Federico Ariel (2022). The Arabidopsis APOLO and human UPAT sequence-unrelated long noncoding RNAs can modulate DNA and histone methylation machineries in plants. Genome biology.

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Joffrey Mejias, Yongpan Chen, Jérémie Bazin, Nhat-My Truong, Karine Mulet, Yara Noureddine, Stéphanie Jaubert-Possamai, Sarah Ranty-Roby, Salomé Soulé, Pierre Abad, Martin D Crespi, Bruno Favery, Michaël Quentin (2022). Silencing the conserved small nuclear ribonucleoprotein SmD1 target gene alters susceptibility to root-knot nematodes in plants. Plant physiology.

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Thomas Roulé, Aurelie Christ, Nosheen Hussain, Ying Huang, Caroline Hartmann, Moussa Benhamed, Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Federico Ariel, Martin Crespi, Thomas Blein (2022). The lncRNA MARS modulates the epigenetic reprogramming of the marneral cluster in response to ABA. Molecular plant.

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Thomas Roulé, Martin Crespi, Thomas Blein (2022). Regulatory long non-coding RNAs in root growth and development. Biochemical Society transactions.

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Marine Guilcher, Arnaud Liehrmann, Chloé Seyman, Thomas Blein, Guillem Rigaill, Benoit Castandet, Etienne Delannoy (2021). Full Length Transcriptome Highlights the Coordination of Plastid Transcript Processing. International journal of molecular sciences.

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Nicolás Gaggion, Federico Ariel, Vladimir Daric, Éric Lambert, Simon Legendre, Thomas Roulé, Alejandra Camoirano, Diego H Milone, Martin Crespi, Thomas Blein, Enzo Ferrante (2021). ChronoRoot: High-throughput phenotyping by deep segmentation networks reveals novel temporal parameters of plant root system architecture. GigaScience.

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Constanza Chialva, Thomas Blein, Martin Crespi, Diego Lijavetzky (2021). Insights into long non-coding RNA regulation of anthocyanin carrot root pigmentation. Scientific reports.

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