Education
Ph.D in Plant Pathology, University of Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, 2013
Current position
Lecturer-Researcher, High Agronomic Institute of Chott-Mariem, Sousse, Tunisia
Publications
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Mensi, I., Daugrois, J. H., Pieretti, I., Gargani, D., Fleites, L. A., Noell, J., Bonnot, F., Gabriel, D. W. and Rott, P. (2016). Surface polysaccharides and quorum sensing are involved in the attachment and survival of Xanthomonas albilineans on sugarcane leaves. Mol Plant Pathol 17(2): 236-246.
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Mensi, I., Vernerey, M. S., Gargani, D., Nicole, M. and Rott, P. (2014). Breaking dogmas: the plant vascular pathogen Xanthomonas albilineans is able to invade non-vascular tissues despite its reduced genome. Open Biol 4: 130116.
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Fleites, L. A., Mensi, I., Gargani, D., Zhang, S., Rott, P. and Gabriel, D. W. (2013). Xanthomonas albilineans OmpA1 appears to be functionally modular and both the OMC and C-like domains are necessary for leaf scald disease of sugarcane. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 26(10): 1200-1210.
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Mensi, I., Girard, J. C., Pieretti, I., Larbre, F., Roumagnac, P., Royer, M. and Rott, P. (2013). First report of a highly virulent strain of Xanthomonas albilineans causing sugarcane leaf scald in Gabon. Plant Disease 97(7):988.
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Rott, P., Fleites, L. A., Mensi, I., Sheppard, L., Daugrois, J. H., Dow, J. M. and Gabriel, D. W. (2013). The RpfCG two-component system negatively regulates the colonization of sugar cane stalks by Xanthomonas albilineans. Microbiology 159(Pt 6): 1149-1159.