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The Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Enviroment
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
( complete list of publications available here)
Tamir-Ariel D, Rosenberg T, Navon N and Burdman S. A secreted lipolytic enzyme from Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria is expressed in planta and contributes to its virulence. Molecular Plant Pathology, in press.
Itkin M, Rogachev I, Alkan N, Rosenberg T, Malitsky S, Masini L, Meir S, Iijima Y, Aoki K, de Vos R, Prusky D, Burdman S, Beekwilder S and Aharoni A. 2011. GLYCOALKALOID METABOLISM 1 is required for steroidal alkaloid glycosylation and prevention of phytotoxicity in tomato. The Plant Cell 23:4507-4525.
Burdman S, Bahar O, Parker JK and De La Fuente L. 2011. Involvement of type IV pili in pathogenicity of plant pathogenic bacteria. Genes 2:706-735.
Bahar O, Levi N and Burdman S. 2011. The cucurbit pathogenic bacterium Acidovorax citrulli requires polar flagellum for full virulence before and after host tissue penetration. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 24:1040-1050.
Tamir-Ariel D, Rosenberg T and Burdman S. 2011. The Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria citH gene is expressed early in the infection process of tomato and is positively regulated by the TctDE two-component regulatory system. Molecular Plant Pathology 12:57-71.
Bahar O, De La Fuente L and Burdman S. 2010. Assessing adhesion, biofilm formation and motility of Acidovorax citrulli using microfluidic flow chambers. FEMS Microbiology Letters 312:33-39.
Bahar O and Burdman S. 2010. Bacterial fruit blotch: a threat to the cucurbit industry. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 58:19-31.
Lerner A, Valverde A, Castro-Sowinski S, Lerner H, Okon Y and Burdman S. 2010. Phenotypic variation in Azospirillum brasilense exposed to starvation. Environmental Microbiology Reports 2:577-586.
Lerner A, Castro-Sowinski S, Valverde A, Lerner H, Dror R, Okon Y and Burdman S. 2009. The Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 noeJ and noeL genes are involved in extracellular polysaccharide biosynthesis. Microbiology 155:4058-4068.
Bahar O, Goffer T and Burdman S. 2009. Type IV pili are required for virulence, twitching motility and biofilm formation of Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 22:909-920.
Lerner A, Okon Y and Burdman S. 2009. The wzm gene located in the pRhico plasmid ofAzospirillum brasilense Sp7 is involved in lipopolysaccharide synthesis. Microbiology 155:791-804.
Lerner A, Castro-Sowinski, Lerner H, Okon Y and Burdman S. 2009. Glycogen phosphorylase is involved in stress endurance and biofilm formation in Azospirillum brasilense Sp7. FEMS Microbiology Letters 300:75-82.
Bahar O, Kritzman G and Burdman S. 2009. Bacterial fruit blotch of melon: screen for disease tolerance and correlation between susceptibility in seed transmission assays and bacterial seed adhesion. European Journal of Plant Pathology 123:71-83.
Bahar O, Efrat M, Hadar E, Dutta B, Walcott RR and Burdman S. 2008. New subspecies-specific polymerase chain reaction-based assay for the detection of Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli. Plant Pathology 57:754-763.
Tamir-Ariel D, Navon N and Burdman S. 2007. Identification of Xanthomonas campestris pv.vesicatoria genes induced in its interaction with tomato. Journal of Bacteriology 189:6359-6371.
Stolov A, Valverde A, Ronald P and Burdman S. 2007. Purification of soluble and active RaxH, a transmembrane histidine protein kinase from Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae required for AvrXa21 activity. Molecular Plant Pathology 8:93-101.
Valverde A, Hubert T, Stolov A, Dagar A, Kopelowitz J and Burdman S. 2007. Assessment of genetic diversity of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris isolates from Israel by various DNA-fingerprinting techniques. Plant Pathology 56:17-25.
Valverde A, Okon Y and Burdman S. 2006. cDNA-AFLP reveals differentially expressed genes related to cell aggregation of Azospirillum brasilense. FEMS Microbiology Letters 265:186-194.
Burdman S, Kots N, Kritzman G and Kopelowitz J. 2005. Molecular, physiological and host-range characterization of Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli isolates from watermelon and melon in Israel. Plant Disease 89:1339-1347.
Burdman S, Shen Y, Lee SW, Xue Q and Ronald P. 2004. RaxH/RaxR: a two-component regulatory system in Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae required for AvrXa21 activity in Xa21-rice lines. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 17:602-612.
Da Silva FG, Shen Y, Dardick C, Burdman S, Yadav RC, De Leon AL and Ronald P. 2004. Bacterial genes involved in type I secretion and sulfation are required to elicit the rice Xa21-mediated innate immune response. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interaction 17:593-601.
Burdman S, Dulguerova G, Okon Y and Jurkevitch E. 2001. Purification of the major outer membrane protein of Azospirillum brasilense, its affinity to plant roots, and its involvement in cell aggregation. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 14:555-561.
Burdman S, Jurkevitch E, Soria-Diaz ME, Serrano AM and Okon Y. 2000. Extracellular polysaccharide composition of Azospirillum brasilense and its relation with cell aggregation. FEMS Microbiology Letters 189:259-264.
Burdman S, Okon Y and Jurkevitch E. 2000. Surface characteristics of Azospirillum brasilense in relation to cell aggregation and attachment to plant roots. Critical Reviews in Microbiology 26:91-110.
Burdman S, Jurkevitch E, Schwartsburd B and Okon Y. 1999. Involvement of outer membrane proteins in the aggregation of Azospirillum brasilense. Microbiology145:1145-1152.
Burdman S, Jurkevitch E, Schwartsburd B, Hampel M and Okon Y. 1998. Aggregation inAzospirillum brasilense: effects of chemical and physical factors and involvement of extracellular components. Microbiology144:1989-1999.