François Belzile

• Centre de recherche et d'innovation sur les végétaux
• Institut de biologie intégrative et des systèmes
• Institut en environnement, développement et société (Institut EDS)

Financements des 2 dernières années

• Antoine Gagnon, Maîtrise en biologie végétale - avec mémoire
• Vipin Tomar, Stage postdoctoral en phytologie

Encadrements des 5 dernières années

• Benjamin Karikari, Stage postdoctoral en phytologie
• Ludivine Brocard, Maîtrise en biologie végétale - avec mémoire
• Marc-André Lemay, Doctorat en biologie végétale
• Mounawarath Assani, Maîtrise en biologie végétale - avec mémoire
• Priyanka Gupta, Recherche postdoctorale en phytologie
• Priyanka Gupta, Stage postdoctoral en phytologie

Travaux de recherche des 5 dernières années

A Rare Recombination in the Phytophthora sojae Genome Allows the Redefinition of a Major Avirulence Gene Molecular Plant Pathology, 2026. Yanick Asselin, Adèle Deshaies, Caroline Labbé, Vanessa Tremblay, François Belzile, Richard Bélanger. DOI 10.1111/mpp.70326

CRISPR‐induced knockouts reveal a dual role for the soybean NFR5α gene in symbiotic nitrogen fixation and root hair development The Plant Genome, 2026. Mohsen Niazian, Maxime de Ronne, Chantal J. Beauchamp, François Belzile, Davoud Torkamaneh. DOI 10.1002/tpg2.70143

Targeted capture and cloning of Rps6 reveal redundancy in soybean resistance genes BMC Plant Biology, 2026. Yanick Asselin, Adèle Deshaies, Lesley Milnes, Sangeeta Parthasarathy, Parthasarathy Santhanam, James Houghton, Vanessa Tremblay, Caroline Labbé, François Belzile, Kamil Witek, Richard R. Bélanger. DOI 10.1186/s12870-026-08378-0

A rare recombination allows the redefinition of a major avirulence gene in the Phytophthora sojae genome 2025. Yanick Asselin, Caroline Labbé, Vanessa Tremblay, François Belzile, Richard Bélanger. DOI 10.64898/2025.12.17.694715

High-Throughput DNA Extraction Using Robotic Automation (RoboCTAB) for Large-Scale Genotyping Plants, 2025. Vincent-Thomas Boucher St-Amour, Vipin Tomar, François Belzile. DOI 10.3390/plants14152263

Allelism of Rps3b and Rps11 revealed by NLR gene capture of resistance genes to Phytophthora sojae in soybean The Plant Genome, 2025. Yanick Asselin, Luann A. F. Dias, Caroline Labbé, Amandine Lebreton, Vincent‐Thomas Boucher‐St‐Amour, Benjamin Cinget, François Belzile, Gaspar Malone, Francismar C. Marcelino‐Guimarães, Richard R. Bélanger. DOI 10.1002/tpg2.70054

Comparing Results from 2-D and 3-D Phenotyping Systems for Soybean Root System Architecture: A ‘Comparison of Apples and Oranges’? Plants, 2024. François Belzile, Waldiodio Seck, Prabhjot Sanghera, Liwen Han, Pierre Dutilleul. DOI 10.3390/plants13233369

k‐mer‐based GWAS enhances the discovery of causal variants and candidate genes in soybean The Plant Genome, 2023. Marc‐André Lemay, Maxime de Ronne, Richard Bélanger, François Belzile. DOI 10.1002/tpg2.20374

Machine Learning-GWAS reveals the role ofWSD1gene for cuticular wax ester biosynthesis and key genomic regions controlling early maturity in bread wheat 2023. Honoré Tekeu, Martine Jean, Eddy L. M. Ngonkeu, François Belzile. DOI 10.1101/2023.11.03.565125

<i>k</i>-mer-Based Genome-Wide Association Studies in Plants: Advances, Challenges, and Perspectives Genes, 2023. Benjamin Karikari, Marc-André Lemay, François Belzile. DOI 10.3390/genes14071439

k-mer-based GWAS enhances the discovery of causal variants and candidate genes in soybean 2023. Marc-André Lemay, Maxime de Ronne, Richard Bélanger, François Belzile. DOI 10.1101/2023.03.28.534607

Improvement of key agronomical traits in soybean through genomic prediction of superior crosses Crop science., 2022. Jean M, Cober E, O'Donoughue L, Rajcan I, Belzile F. DOI 10.1002/csc2.20583

Characterizing resistance to soybean cyst nematode in PI 494182, an early maturing soybean accession Crop science., 2022. St‐Amour VTB, Mimee B, Torkamaneh D, Jean M, Belzile F, O'Donoughue LS. DOI 10.1002/csc2.20162

The construction of a high-density consensus genetic map for soybean based on SNP markers derived from genotyping-by-sequencing. Genome, 2022. Fallah M, Jean M, Boucher St-Amour VT, O'Donoughue L, Belzile F. DOI 10.1139/gen-2021-0054

The SoyaGen Project: Putting Genomics to Work for Soybean Breeders. Frontiers in plant science, 2022. Belzile F, Jean M, Torkamaneh D, Tardivel A, Lemay MA, Boudhrioua C, Arsenault-Labrecque G, Dussault-Benoit C, Lebreton A, de Ronne M, Tremblay V, Bélanger R. DOI 10.3389/fpls.2022.887553

CRISPR/Cas9 in Planta Hairy Root Transformation: A Powerful Platform for Functional Analysis of Root Traits in Soybean. Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. Niazian M, Belzile F, Torkamaneh D. DOI 10.3390/plants11081044

RXLR effector gene Avr3a from Phytophthora sojae is recognized by Rps8 in soybean. Molecular plant pathology, 2022. Arsenault-Labrecque G, Santhanam P, Asselin Y, Cinget B, Lebreton A, Labbé C, Belzile F, Gijzen M, Bélanger RR. DOI 10.1111/mpp.13190

Combined use of Oxford Nanopore and Illumina sequencing yields insights into soybean structural variation biology. BMC biology, 2022. Lemay MA, Sibbesen JA, Torkamaneh D, Hamel J, Levesque RC, Belzile F. DOI 10.1186/s12915-022-01255-w

Genome-Wide Association Study Statistical Models: A Review. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2022. Yoosefzadeh-Najafabadi M, Eskandari M, Belzile F, Torkamaneh D. DOI 10.1007/978-1-0716-2237-7_4

Designing a Genome-Wide Association Study: Main Steps and Critical Decisions. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2022. Belzile F, Torkamaneh D. DOI 10.1007/978-1-0716-2237-7_1

Mapping of partial resistance to Phytophthora sojae in soybean PIs using whole-genome sequencing reveals a major QTL. The plant genome, 2021. de Ronne M, Santhanam P, Cinget B, Labbé C, Lebreton A, Ye H, Vuong TD, Hu H, Valliyodan B, Edwards D, Nguyen HT, Belzile F, Bélanger R. DOI 10.1002/tpg2.20184

A high-resolution consensus linkage map for barley based on GBS-derived genotypes. Genome, 2021. Abed A, Badea A, Beattie A, Khanal R, Tucker J, Belzile F. DOI 10.1139/gen-2021-0055

GWAS identifies an ortholog of the rice D11 gene as a candidate gene for grain size in an international collection of hexaploid wheat. Scientific reports, 2021. Tekeu H, Ngonkeu ELM, Bélanger S, Djocgoué PF, Abed A, Torkamaneh D, Boyle B, Tsimi PM, Tadesse W, Jean M, Belzile F. DOI 10.1038/s41598-021-98626-0

Combined use of Oxford Nanopore and Illumina sequencing yields insights into soybean structural variation biology 2021. Lemay M, Sibbesen JA, Torkamaneh D, Hamel J, Levesque RC, Belzile F. DOI 10.1101/2021.08.26.457816

Identification of genomic loci conferring broad-spectrum resistance to multiple nematode species in exotic soybean accession PI 567305. TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik, 2021. Vuong TD, Sonah H, Patil G, Meinhardt C, Usovsky M, Kim KS, Belzile F, Li Z, Robbins R, Shannon JG, Nguyen HT. DOI 10.1007/s00122-021-03903-1

The pan-genome of the cultivated soybean (PanSoy) reveals an extraordinarily conserved gene content. Plant biotechnology journal, 2021. Torkamaneh D, Lemay MA, Belzile F. DOI 10.1111/pbi.13600

Genome Assembly of the Canadian two-row Malting Barley cultivar AAC Synergy. G3 (Bethesda, Md.), 2021. Xu W, Tucker JR, Bekele WA, You FM, Fu YB, Khanal R, Yao Z, Singh J, Boyle B, Beattie AD, Belzile F, Mascher M, Tinker NA, Badea A. DOI 10.1093/g3journal/jkab031

GWAS identifies a wheat orthologue of the rice D11 gene as an important contributor to grain size in an international collection of hexaploid wheat 2021. Tekeu H, Ngonkeu EL, Bélanger S, Djocgoué PF, Abed A, Torkamaneh D, Boyle B, Tsimi P, Tadesse W, Jean M, Belzile F. DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-244194/v1

A bumper crop of SNPs in soybean through high-density genotyping-by-sequencing (HD-GBS). Plant biotechnology journal, 2021. Torkamaneh D, Laroche J, Boyle B, Hyten DL, Belzile F. DOI 10.1111/pbi.13551

Genome-wide association study for resistance to the Meloidogyne javanica causing root-knot nematode in soybean. TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik, 2021. Alekcevetch JC, de Lima Passianotto AL, Ferreira EGC, Dos Santos AB, da Silva DCG, Dias WP, Belzile F, Abdelnoor RV, Marcelino-Guimarães FC. DOI 10.1007/s00122-020-03723-9

Accurate Imputation of Untyped Variants from Deep Sequencing Data. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2021. Torkamaneh D, Belzile F. DOI 10.1007/978-1-0716-1103-6_13