Contact Details:

Phone: +972 8 9489128
Fax: +972 8 9468785
E-mail: chernin@agri.huji.ac.il

Teaching:

Biological control of plant diseases

Research Interests:

Bacterial biocontrol agents of plant pathogens;
Genetics, regulation and mechanisms of the bacteria biocontrol activity;
Cell to cell communication (quorum-sensing) in plant-associated bacteria;
Genetic manipulation of plant growth promoting bacteria to enhance biocontrol of phytopathogens;
Oncogenicity of Agrobacterium tumefaciens and its control

Ph.D. and M.Sc., Students, Post-doctoral Scholars

Zhou Lecong, Ph.D.

Vered Canaan, M.Sc.

Merav Kamensky, M.Sc.

Eyal Ritte, M.Sc.

Shiri Klein, M.Sc.

Rani Amir, M.Sc.

Sagi Gavriel, M.Sc.

Yana Dubinsky, M.Sc. (present)

Mohammed Bimeren, International M.Sc. Program (present)

Zafar Ismailov, post-doc

Liu Xiaoguang, post-doc

Selected Publications:

Chernin, L.S., Z.F. Ismailov, S. Haran, and I. Chet. 1995. Chitinolytic Enterobacter agglomerans antagonistic to fungal plant pathogens. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61:1720-1726.

Chernin, L.S., A. Brandis, Z. F. Ismailov, and I. Chet. 1996. Pyrrolnitrin production by an Enterobacter agglomerans strain with a broad spectrum of antagonistic activity towards fungal and bacterial phytopathogens. Current Microbiol. 32:1-5.

Chernin, L., L. De La Fuente, V. Sobolev, S. Haran, C. E. Vorgias, A. B. Oppenheim, and I. Chet. 1997. Molecular cloning, structure analysis, and expression in Escherichia coli of a chitinase from Enterobacter agglomerans. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63: 834-839.

Chernin, L.S., A. Gafni, R. Mozes-Koch, U. Gerson, and A. Sztejnberg. 1997. Chitinolytic activity of the acaropathogenic fungi Hirsutella thompsonii and Hirsutella necatrix. Can. J. Microbiol. 43: 440-446.

Pleban, S., L. Chernin, and I. Chet. (1997). Chitinolytic activity of endophytic strain of Bacillus cereus. Lett. Appl. Microbiol. 25: 284-288.

Khmel, I.A., T.A. Sorokina, N.B. Lemanova, V.A. Lipasova, O.Z. Metlitski, T.V. Burdeinaya, and L.S. Chernin. 1998. Biological control of crown gall in grapevine and raspberry by two Pseudomonas strains with a wide spectrum of antagonistic activity. Biocont. Science and Technol., 8: 45-57.

Chernin,L.S., M.K. Winson, J.M. Thompson, S. Haran, B. W. Bycroft, I. Chet, P. Williams, and G. S. A. B. Stewart. 1998. Chitinolytic activity in Chromobacterium violaceum: substrate analysis and regulation by quorum sensing. J. Bacteriol. 180: 4435-4441.

Ovadis, M., L. Chernin, T. Tzfira, V. Canaan, A. Aharoni, D. Sakar, and A Vainstein. 1998. Transformation of tobacco and aspen plants with the ita locus of an IncQ plasmid confers resistance to Agrobacterium tumefaciens infection, pp. 533-536. In: Plant Biotechnology and in vitro Biology. (A. Altman, S. Izhar, M. Ziv eds.), Kluwer Acad. Publish., Netherlands.

Chernin, L., Z. Ismailov, I. Khmel. N. Lemanova, A. Perebityuk, and I. Chet. (1999). Development of new approaches for the biological control of crop diseases: a joint Israel-CIS venture. Scientific Israel – Technological Advantages 1 (3): 65-74.

Chernin, L., and I. Chet. (2002). Microbial enzymes in biocontrol of plant pathogens and pests, pp. 171-225. In: Enzymes in the Environment: Activity, Ecology, and Applications. (R. Burns, and R. Dick, eds.), Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York.

Chet, I. and L. Chernin. (2002). Biocontrol, Microbial agents in soil, pp. 450-465. In: Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology (G. Bitton, ed), John Willey & Sons Inc., New York.

Viterbo, A., O. Ramot, L. Chernin, and I. Chet. (2002). Significance of lytic enzymes from Trichoderma spp. in the biocontrol of fungal plant pathogens. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 81: 549-556.

Kamensky, M., M. Ovadis, I. Chet, and L. Chernin. 2003. Soil-borne strain IC14 of Serratia plymuthica with multiple mechanisms of antifungal activity provides biocontrol of Botrytis cinerea and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum diseases Soil Biol. Biochem. 35: 323-331.

Veselova, M., M. Kholmeckaya, S. Klein, E. Voronina, V. Lipasova, A. Metlitskaya, A. Mayatskaya, E. Lobanok, I. Khmel and L. Chernin, 2003. Production of N-acyl homoserine lactone signal molecules in Gram-negative soil-borne and plant-associated bacteria. Folia Microbiol. 48: 794-798.

Ovadis,M., X. Liu,S. Gavriel,Z. Ismailov, I. Chet, and L. Chernin. 2004. The global regulator genes from biocontrol strain Serratia plymuthica IC1270: cloning, sequencing, and functional studies. J. Bacteriol. 186: 4986-4993.

De La Fuente, L., L. Thomashow, D. Weller, N. Bajsa, L. Quagliotto, L. Chernin, and A. Arias. 2004. Pseudomonas fluorescens UP61 isolated from birdsfoot trefoil rhizosphere produces multiple antibiotics and exerts a broad spectrum of biocontrol activity. Eur. J. Plant Pathol. 110: 671-681.

Rice, S.A., S. Kjelleberg, M. Givskov, W. De Boer, and L. Chernin, 2004. Detection of bacterial homoserine lactone quorum sensing signals. In Molecular Microbial Ecology Manual, 2^nd edition. Kowalchuk, GA, de Bruijn FJ, Head IM, Akkermans ADL, van Elsas JD (eds) Chapter 8.04: 1629-1649. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.