Highlights 2025

The EVO team from Laboratoire de recherche en sciences végétales (LRSV - CNRS/Toulouse INP/Université de Toulouse) in Toulouse has just unveiled an unsuspected mechanism in plant evolution. A relatively unstudied plant specie, Marchantia polymorpha, carries in its genetic heritage traces of an exchange with fungi that would have occurred half a billion years ago. The study, published on February 17 in Nature Genetics, points out that this gene transfer is at the origin of the colonization of emerged lands by the plant kingdom.

In March 2025, researchers from LIPME's REACH team published an article in Cell Reports that placed the negative impact of temperature on immune receptors upstream of defense activation.

A large international consortium lead by Pablo Tedesco from CRBE, published an article in PNAS that showed that frugivorous poissons play a very important role in the diversity and propagation of tree species in the floodplains of the Amazon basin.

Researchers form IHPE, published in Science of Total Environment, their findings that enhance understanding of oyster-POMS interactions and highlight epigenetic biomarkers for disease management and oyster health