Benoit van der Rest
Dr, Assistant Professor
+33 (0)534323894 benoit.van-der-rest(at)ensat.fr (benoit.van-der-rest @ ensat.fr)
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Research Project :
Transcriptional regulation of tomato fleshy fruit development
Scientific Career
October 2018 |
HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) submitted on “Transcriptional regulation of tomato fleshy fruit development” |
Since 2005 |
Assistant Professor at INP-ENSAT and researcher at the GBF laboratory |
2004-2005 |
Post-doc at the Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale (Toulouse) on mycolic acid biosynthesis |
2002-2005 |
Post-doc at the Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) on phenolic metabolism engineering |
1998-2002 |
PhD, Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), Metabolism of glycerophosphodiester in plants |
Expertise:
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Involvment of MADS-box factors in tomato fruit develoment
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Characterization of the short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase family
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Protein-protein interactions involved in auxin perception
Publications
- Huang B, Routaboul J-M, Liu M, Deng W, Maza E, Mila I, Hu G, Zouine M, Frasse P, Vrebalov JT, Giovannoni JJ, Li Z, van der Rest B, Bouzayen M: Overexpression of the class D MADS-box gene Sl-AGL11 impacts fleshy tissue differentiation and structure in tomato fruits. (2017) J. Exp. Bot., 68:4869‑4884.https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erx303
- Hao Y, Wang X, Li X, Bassa C, Mila I, Audran C, Maza E, Li Z, Bouzayen M, van der Rest B, Zouine M: Genome-wide identification, phylogenetic analysis, expression profiling, and protein-protein interaction properties of TOPLESS gene family members in tomato. (2014) J. Exp. Bot., vol. 65:1013‑1023. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ert440
- Moummou, H., Tonfack, L.B., Chervin, C., Benichou, M., Youmbi, E., Ginies, C., Latché, A., Pech, J.C., van der Rest, B. 2012. Functional characterization of SlscADH1, a fruit-ripening-associated short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase of tomato. J. Plant Physiol., 169, 1435-1444.
- Moummou, Hanane and Kallberg, Yvonne and Tonfack, Libert Brice and Persson, Bengt and van der Rest, Benoît. The Plant Short-Chain Dehydrogenase (SDR) superfamily:genome-wide inventory and diversification patterns. (2012) BMC Plant Biology, vol. 12: 219.
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Tonfack L.B., Moummou H., Latché A., Youmbi E., Bénichou M., Pech J.C. and van der Rest B. 2011.The Plant SDR super-family: involvement in primary and secondary metabolism. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 12:41-53.
- Louveau, T., Leitao C., Green S., Hamiaux C., van der Rest B., Dechy-Cabaret O., Atkinson R., Chervin C. 2011. Predicting the substrate specificity of a glycosyltransferase implicated in the production of phenolic volatiles in tomato fruit. FEBS J., 278, 390–400.
- Léger M, Gavalda S, Guillet V, van der Rest B, Slama N, Montrozier H, Mourey L, Quémard A, Daffé M, Marrakchi H. The dual function of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis FadD32 required for mycolic acid biosynthesis. (2009) Chem Biol. 16:510-519.
- Gavalda S, Léger M, van der Rest B, Stella A, Bardou F, Montrozier H, Chalut C, Burlet-Schiltz O, Marrakchi H, Daffé M, Quémard A. The Pks13/FadD32 crosstalk for the biosynthesis of mycolic acids in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. (2009) J Biol Chem. 284:19255-64.
- Pech J.C., Latché A. and van der Rest B. (2008) “Genes involved in the biosynthesis of aroma volatiles in fruit and vegetables and biotechnological applications” In: Fruit and vegetable flavour: recent advances and future prospects: Brückner and Wyllie, Ed. Chapter 13, p 254-271
- Meniche X, de Sousa-d'Auria C, Van-der-Rest B, Bhamidi S, Huc E, Huang H, De Paepe D, Tropis M, McNeil M, Daffé M, Houssin C. Partial redundancy in the synthesis of the D-arabinose incorporated in the cell wall arabinan of Corynebacterineae. (2008) Microbiology 154:2315-26.
Before 2006
- van der Rest B, Danoun S, Boudet AM, Rochange SF. Down-regulation of cinnamoyl-CoA reductase in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) induces dramatic changes in soluble phenolic pools. (2006) J Exp Bot;57(6):1399-411.