Sébastien Cunnac

TL;DR: Paddy trials showed that genome-edited SWEET promoters endow rice lines with robust, broad-spectrum resistance to all Xanthomonas bacterial blight strains tested.

TL;DR: This work offers the first set of alleles edited in TalC EBE and uncovers a distinct, broader range of activities for TalC compared to AvrXa7 or Tal5, suggesting the existence of additional targets forTalC beyond SWEET14, suggesting that TALE‐mediated plant susceptibility may result from induction of several, genetically redundant, host susceptibility genes by a single effector.

TL;DR: Comparisons of the complete repertoires of TAL effectors in three Xoo strains forming an African genetic lineage different from Asian Xoo showed that African Xoo TALomes are highly conserved, genetically distant from Asian ones, and closely related to Tal effectors from the bacterial leaf streak pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv.

TL;DR: The suite QueTAL was developed to offer tailored tools for comparison of TAL effector genes and will help users to rapidly analyse any TALEffector genes of interest and compare them to other available TAL genes and should improve the understanding of Tal effectors evolution.

TL;DR: The characterization of TALE repertoires revealed that talF and talC specific molecular markers were simultaneously present in all surveyed Malian strains, suggesting that the corresponding TALEs are broadly deployed by Malian Xoo to redundantly target the OsSWEET14 gene promoter.