Marie‐Claude Boniface

The paper shows a single nucleotide polymorphism in a cell-wall invertase gene affects sunflower nectar chemistry, microbial diversity, and pollinator visits.

This study shows that the parasitic plant Orobanche cumana penetrates sunflower root tissues intracellularly by degrading the cell wall and forming a trans-cellular apoplastic compartment.

This study analyzes the genomic and phenotypic impacts of wild introgressions in sunflower, finding that while some traits improve, most introgressions negatively affect yield and quality.

This study compares additive and non-additive GWAS models to identify genomic regions controlling flowering time in sunflower hybrids, finding non-additive models better detect trait-associated loci.