Menachem Moshelion
Born: 1971, Jerusalem
Ph.D. Hebrew University; Lect. 2004
Phone: Tel: 050-728-1950 (mobile), +972-8-9489781
Fax: +972-8-9473899
e-mail: moshelio@agri.huji.ac.il
Research Interests:
Cellular mechanisms controlling the water permeability of the root plasma membrane. Plant Aquaporins (water channels) cellular localization, gating, trafficking and regulation. CO2 conductance through aquaporins at the mesophyll membrane. Root conductivity response to the levels of drought, salinity, nutrients, oxygen, temperature and heavy metals in the soil.
Whole plant transpiration use efficiency, abiotic stress resistance.
Research Projects:
- Aquaporins roles in the plant stress response, stress resistance and productivity, in particular of crop plants under salinity and drought conditions.
- The tonoplast (vacuole) role in determine the plant isohydric/anisohydric behavior.
- The role of aquaporins in the whole plant momentary transpiration, water-use efficiency and hydraulic conductivity regulation.
- The vascular bundle-sheath cells regulation of leaf hydraulic conductance, leaf water potential, stomatal regulation and xylem-ABA sensing.
- Development of quantitative criteria to screen Pinus species regarding their resistance to water deficiency and water-use efficiency.
- Improving the ability of Israeli winter rainfed grain crops to face temperature and water instability.
- Developing high-throughput screening system for plant transpiration-use efficiency, growth rates and productivity prediction under normal and stress conditions at an early developmental stage.
Key words: aquaporins; root; gating; trafficking; water channels;
membrane;
plant; MIP; imaging; transport models,
CO2; roots; water permeability; abiotic stress; cell biology; fluorescence signaling, transpiration, whole-plant hydraulic conductance
Recent Publications:
Moshelion M, Moran N (2000) K+-efflux channels in extensor and flexor cells
of Samanea Saman are not identical. Effects of cytosolic Ca2+. Plant
Physiology, 124: 911-919.
Yu L, Moshelion M, Moran N (2001) Extracellular protons inhibit the activity
of inward-rectifying K channels in the motor cells of Samanea saman pulvini.
Plant Physiology, 127: 1310-1322.
Moshelion M, Becker D, Czempinski K, Mueller-Roeber B, Attali B, Hedrich R
and Moran N (2002) Diurnal and circadian regulation of putative potassium
channels in a leaf moving organ.
Plant Physiology, 128: 634-642.
Moshelion M, Becker D, Hedrich R, Biela A, Otto B, Levi H, Moran N,
Kaldenhoff R (2002) PIP aquaporins in the motor cells of Samanea Saman:
diurnal and circadian regulation. Plant Cell, 14: 727-739.
Fetter K, Van Wilder V, Moshelion M and Chaumont F (2004) Interactions
between plasma membrane aquaporins modulate their water channel activity.
Plant Cell, 16: 215-228.
Fetter K, Van Wilder V, Moshelion M and Chaumont F (2004)
Interactions between plasma membrane aquaporins modulate their water channel activity.
Plant Cell, 16: 215-228.
Moshelion M, Moran N and Chaumont F, (2004)
Dynamic changes in the osmotic water permeability of protoplast plasma membrane.
Plant Physiology, 135 (4): 2301-2317.
Chaumont F, Moshelion M and Daniels M.J (2005)
Regulation of plant aquaporin activity.
Biology of the Cell, 97: 749-764.
Hachez C, Moshelion M, Zelazny E, Cavez D and Chaumont F (2006)
Localization and quantification of plasma membrane aquaporin expression in maize primary root: a clue to understanding their role as cellular plumbers.
Plant Mol. Biol., 62: 305-323.
Volkov V , Hachez C, Moshelion M, Draye X, Chaumont F and Fricke W (2006)
Water permeability differs between growing and non-growing barley leaf tissues.
Journal of Experimental Botany, 58: 377-390.
Yu L, Becker D, Levi H, Moshelion M, Hedrich R, Lotan I, Moran A, Pick U, Naveh L, Libal Y, and Moran N (2006)
Phosphorylation of SPICK2, an AKT2 channel homologue from Samanea motor cells.
Journal of Experimental Botany, 57: 3583-3594.
Kaldenhoff R, Bertl A, Otto B, Moshelion M, Uehlein N.(2007)
Characterization of plant aquaporins.
Methods in Enzymology, 428: 505-31.
Ashkenazi M and Moshelion M (2007)
Shared transcriptional correlations in seed formation and in plants response to drought.
BMC Bioinformatics, 8(Suppl 8): P5.
Ashkenazi M, Bader G, Kuchinsky A, Moshelion M, States D. (2007)
Cytoscape ESP: simple search of complex biological networks.
Bioinformatics, 24: 1465-1466.
Maymon I, Greenboim-Wainberg Y, Sagiv S, Kieber J, Moshelion M, Olszewski N and Weiss D. (2009)
Cytosolic activity of SPINDLY implies the existence of a DELLA-independent gibberellin-response pathway.
Plant J., 58, 979-988.
Moshelion M , Hachez C, Martin A.B , Cavez D , Bajji M , Jung R and Chaumont F (2009)
Membrane water permeability and aquaporin expression increase during growth of maize suspension cultured cells.
Plant, Cell and Environment, 32: 1334-1345.
Sade N., Vinocur J.B., Diber A., Shatil A., Ronen G., Nissan H., Wallach R., Karchi H. and Moshelion M. (2009)
Improving plant stress-tolerance and yield production: is the tonoplast aquaporin SlTIP2;2 a key to isohydric to anisohydric conversion?
New Phytologist, 181: 651-661.
Sade N, Gebretsadik M, Seligmann R, Schwartz A, Wallach R and Moshelion M (2010)
The role of tobacco aquaporin 1 in improving water-use efficiency, hydraulic conductivity and yield production under salt stresses.
Plant Physiology, 152: 1-10.
Wallach R, Da-costa N, Raviv M and Moshelion M (2010)
Development of autonomous, self-regulated oscillations in transpiration rate of a whole tomato plant under water stress.
J. Exp. Bot., 61: 3439-3449.
Shatil-Cohen A, Attia Z and Moshelion M . (2011)
Bundle-sheath cell regulation of xylem-mesophyll water transport via aquaporins under drought stress: A target of xylem-borne ABA?
Plant J., 67: 72-80.
Burko, Y. , Geva, Y. , Refael-Cohen, A. , Shleizer-Burko, S. , Shani, E. , Berger, Y. , Halon, E. , Chuck, G. Moshelion, M. and Ori, N. (2011)
ZRIZI MATE-type transporter is an organelle transporter that enhances organ initiation.
Plant and Cell Physiology, 52: 518-527.
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