Publications

M Heidecker, P Mammi, T Bergelt, A Christ, M Lewinski, T Köster, C Charon, Y Jin, M Marquardt, T Blein, J Bazin, D Staiger, M Crespi (2026). The long non-coding RNA ACHLYS modulates biomolecular condensates to regulate alternative splicing in root development. Preprint bioRxiv.

Nicolás Gaggion, Noelia A Boccardo, Rodrigo Bonazzola, María Florencia Legascue, María Florencia Mammarella, Florencia Sol Rodriguez, Federico Emanuel Aballay, Florencia Belén Catulo, Andana Barrios, Luciano J Santoro, Franco Accavallo, Santiago Nahuel Villarreal, Leonardo I Pereyra-Bistrain, Moussa Benhamed, Martin Crespi, Martiniano María Ricardi, Ezequiel Petrillo, Thomas Blein, Federico Ariel, Enzo Ferrante (2026). ChronoRoot 2.0: an open AI-powered platform for 2D temporal plant phenotyping. Research article GigaScience, 15, giag018.

Aurelie Mesnil, Vincent Castric, Gianluca Lombardi, Thomas Blein, Jai-Long Yao, Charles Ampomah-Dwamena, Marie Monniaux, Somia Saidi, Xilong Chen, William Marande, Caroline Callot, Nadine Gautier, Johann Confais, Anne-Laure Fuchs, Enrique Dapena, Anthony Venon, Takashi Tsuchimatsu, Alessandra Carbone, Xavier Vekemans, Amandine Martine Cornille (2025). Innovation within stability: balancing selection preserves multigenic S-haplotype architecture in apple. Preprint bioRxiv.

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. Research article Plant physiology, 199(2), kiaf425.

Pablo Mammi, Thomas Blein (2025). From non-coding to chromatin regulators: VIVIpary and the rise of lncRNAs in plant biology. Review article Molecular plant, 18(8), 1259—1261.

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. Research article The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology, 121(5), e70016.

Taline Elmayan, Thomas Blein, Emilie Elvira-Matelot, Ivan Le Masson, Aurélie Christ, Nathalie Bouteiller, Martin D Crespi, Hervé Vaucheret (2025). Arabidopsis SGS3 is recruited to chromatin by CHR11 to select RNA that initiate siRNA production. Research article Nature communications, 16(1), 2978.

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. Research article Journal of experimental botany, 75(18), 5667—5680.

Soledad Traubenik, Céline Charon, Thomas Blein (2024). From environmental responses to adaptation: the roles of plant lncRNAs. Review article Plant physiology, 195(1), 232—244.

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. Research article Plant physiology, 193(3), 1933—1953.