Smahane Chalabi

Characterizing gene expression reprogramming induced by allopolyploïdy for the wheat (2010-2014)

Smahane’s PhD was co-supervised with Boulos Chaloub (75%/25%), from 2010 to 2014.

Summary

This thesis investigates how gene expression is reprogrammed following allopolyploidization in wheat, the process by which a new species arises from the combination and duplication of two parental genomes. Using transcriptomic data from newly formed and stabilized wheat allopolyploids, it characterizes patterns of non-additive gene expression – genes whose expression in the hybrid departs from the simple average of the parental levels – and relates these patterns to genome-wide gene expression additivity previously observed in genetically stable wheat allohexaploids.

PhD manucript

2014

  1. PhD thesis
    Characterizing gene expression reprogramming induced by allopolyploïdy for the wheat
    Smahane Chalabi
    Université d’Évry-Val-d’Essonne, 2014

Journal papers

2013

  1. New Phytol
    Prevalence of gene expression additivity in genetically stable wheat allohexaploids
    H. Chelaifa, V. Chagué, S. Chalabi, and 11 more authors
    New Phytologist, 2013