Frédéric Suffert

Instrumentalization of plant #biosecurity and #phytosanitary

Russia's favorite hybrid weapon is back in action: geopolitical fruit inspection. Just hours after Turkish FM Hakan Fidan announced in Kyiv that Ankara is ready to lead a NATO-allied maritime security mission for Ukraine, Russia’s agricultural watchdog immediately banned stone fruit imports from major Turkish suppliers, citing "quarantine pests." It’s an old Kremlin playbook: The Pattern: Punish political independence with instant health bans. Armenia faced the exact same food import blocks when it eyed closer ties with the EU. The Escalation: While fighting a fruit war with Turkey, regional tensions are mounting. Reports from Baltic media highlight a radical new petition circulating in Russia demanding that Putin officially declare Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as a zone of "Russian sovereignty." From blocking peaches to threatening sovereign European borders, Moscow’s economic tantrums are proof of growing frustration as its strategic isolation deepens. 🇹🇷🇪🇺🇺🇦 #Turkey #BalticStates #TradeWar #Geopolitics #UkraineWar #Russia

“When the Fruit Runs Out, Who Gets the Blame?” Russia has now launched a quiet trade war — the kind where the battlefield is a supermarket shelf and the casualties are apricots. Moscow suddenly blocked imports of Turkish fruit, officially citing “phytosanitary violations.” Unofficially? Hours earlier, Turkey’s foreign minister said Ankara was ready to help NATO secure Ukraine’s waters. And then — poof — no peaches. This is a familiar pattern. Armenia moved closer to the EU → Russia blocked Armenian produce. Now Turkey signals support for Ukraine → Russia blocks Turkish fruit. It’s geopolitics à la grocery store. When allies don’t align with Moscow’s goals, the first punishment is not tanks — it’s the fruit aisle. Meanwhile, tensions rise at home. A new petition reportedly calls for expanding presidential powers and declaring the Baltic states a zone of “Russian sovereignty.” When the politics get heavy, even the cherries get involved.

Stomatal closure, a conserved spore concentration-dependent response mediated by different Stb genes to avirulent isolates of #Zymoseptoria tritici doi.org/10.1111/ppa.70…

@Xero_Phyte @leboncoin @INRAE_DPT_SPE Moitié prix du dernier tarif neuf connu. L'appareil est toujours présenté sur le site Godé, mais n'est plus disponible me semble-t-il.

@wheatpath @leboncoin @INRAE_DPT_SPE Ils en ont visiblement toujours en stock chez godé sur leur site internet, vous l'avez eu a combien en occasion ?

Première mini-moisson avec la Minibatt* permettant de prélever des lots de grain directement dans le couvert. * modèle Godé épuisé, déniché d'occasion sur @leboncoin 😉 parce qu'il n'y a pas de petites économies #BIOGER @INRAE_DPT_SPE

Advanced host‒pathogen interactions in #wheat and #Zymoseptoria tritici: invasion strategies and plant defense mechanisms doi.org/10.1007/s41348…

Decoupling climate and seed system drivers of wheat yellow rust epidemics in Ethiopia: A 30-­year geospatial machine-­learning approach: bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Histological examination of cold-induced resistance to yellow #rust in winter #wheat doi.org/10.1111/ppa.70…

Existing diagnostic tools were found to either lack specificity or fail to detect all species in the wheat leaf spot complex. M. Hafez et al. developed a detection tool targeting the single-copy, conserved β-tubulin 1 gene across all species: doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-…

💡 Une alternative aux fongicides grâce à la lumière ? 🌱 youtu.be/ZYkTgT7pWm0?si…

📣 International Conference "Mixing crops, varieties, disciplines and know-hows for agroecology" 7-9th October 2026, Paris-Saclay, France. Abstract submission deadline extended: 30th June 2026 mix4agroecology.sciencesconf.org

#Septoria Tritici Blotch in commercial #wheat crops in England: The use of varietal #resistance in disease control bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Great set of 3 papers on control of Septoria tritici blotch in wheat! All #OpenAccess: bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…, bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…, bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

The instrumentalization of plant #biosecurity and #phytosanitary regimes by #Russia is continuing dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5… armenpress.am/en/article/125…

Long-term surveillance reveals hybridization by nuclear reassortment and intercontinental spread as major evolutionary drivers in #wheat yellow #rust doi.org/10.1111/nph.71…

A funded PhD position for studying wheat pathogen adaptation to climate factors is open in my lab @INRAE_France @UnivParisSaclay #BIOGER in collab. @JKI_Bund (Germany), with a start planned for autumn2026 ▶️ …bioger.versailles-saclay.hub.inrae.fr/teams-and-plat…

Strengthening predictive models for #wheat stem #rust infection risk in a changing climate: gaps and opportunities doi.org/10.1111/ppa.70…

Adaptation of French #wheat leaf #rust (Puccinia triticina) populations to #triticale doi.org/10.1111/ppa.70…