Catherine Feuillet

Catherine Feuillet (French pronunciation: [katʁin fœjɛ] ; born July 1965) is a French geneticist. She investigated the molecular basis of fungal disease resistance in wheat and in barley and cloned the first leaf rust resistance gene from wheat. In 2004 she was hired as a research director at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in France to lead European and international projects on wheat genomics.

In 2008, she and her team successfully published the first mapping of the largest wheat chromosome, 3B, with the full sequence of this chromosome being published in 2014.