Hirel B, Chardon F, Durand J (2007). The contribution of molecular physiology to the improvement of nitrogen use efficiency in crops. J Crop Sci Biotech, 10:123-132. PubMed | DOI

Hirel B, Le Gouis J, Ney B, Gallais A (2007). The challenge of improving nitrogen use efficiency in crop plants: towards a more central role for genetic variability and quantitative genetics within integrated approaches. J Exp Bot, 58:2369-2387. PubMed | DOI

Kichey T, Hirel B, Heumez E, Dubois F, Le Gouis J (2007). In winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), post-anthesis nitrogen uptake and remobilisation to the grain correlates with agronomic traits and nitrogen physiological markers. Field Crops Research, 102:22-32. PubMed | DOI

Coque M, Bertin P, Hirel B, Gallais A (2006). Genetic variation and QTLs for 15N natural abundance in a set of maize recombinant inbred lines. Field Crops Research, 97:310-321. PubMed | DOI

Fei H, Chaillou S, Hirel B, Polowick P, Mahon JD, Vessey JK (2006). Effects of the overexpression of a soybean cytosolic glutamine synthetase gene (GS15) linked to organ-specific promoters on growth and nitrogen accumulation of pea plants supplied with ammonium. Plant Physiol Biochem, 44:543-550. PubMed | DOI

Fontaine JX, Saladino F, Agrimonti C, Bedu M, Terce-Laforgue T, Tétu T, Hirel B, Restivo FM, Dubois F (2006). Control of the synthesis and subcellular targeting of the two GDH genes products in leaves and stems of Nicotiana plumbaginifolia and Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Physiol, 47:410-418. PubMed | DOI

Gallais A, Coque M, Quilleré I, Prioul JL, Hirel B (2006). Modelling postsilking nitrogen fluxes in maize (Zea mays) using 15N-labelling field experiments. New Phytol, 172:696-707. PubMed | DOI

Hirel B, Gallais A (2006). Rubisco synthesis, turnover and degradation: some new thoughts on an old problem. New Phytol, 169:445-448. PubMed | DOI

Kichey T, Heumez E, Pocholle D, Pageau K, Vanacker H, Dubois F, Le Gouis J, Hirel B (2006). Combined agronomic and physiological aspects of nitrogen management in wheat highlight a central role for glutamine synthetase. New Phytol, 169:265-278. PubMed | DOI

Lea US, Leydecker MT, Quilleré I, Meyer C, Lillo C (2006). Posttranslational regulation of nitrate reductase strongly affects the levels of free amino acids and nitrate, whereas transcriptional regulation has only minor influence. Plant Physiol, 140:1085-1094. PubMed | DOI

Martin A, Lee J, Kichey T, Gerentes D, Zivy M, Tatout C, Dubois F, Balliau T, Valot B, Davanture M, Terce-Laforgue T, Quilleré I, Coque M, Gallais A, Gonzalez-Moro MB, Bethencourt L, Habash DZ, Lea PJ, Charcosset A, Perez P, Murigneux A, Sakakibara H, Edwards KJ, Hirel B (2006). Two cytosolic glutamine synthetase isoforms of maize are specifically involved in the control of grain production. Plant Cell, 18:3252-3274. PubMed | DOI

Pommel B, Gallais A, Coque M, Quilleré I, Hirel B, Prioul J, Andrieu B, Floriot M (2006). Carbon and nitrogen allocation and grain filling in three maize hybrids differing in leaf senescence. European Journal of Agronomy, 24:203-211. PubMed | DOI