Yonatan Elkind
Research Interest
- Application of genetic engineering to plant breeding and physiology.
- Molecular biology and genetic engineering: specifically, gene expression in transgenic plants.
- Transposon tagging of polygenes and of agronomically important traits.
- Genetics and physiology or pepper, tomato, squash and melon, with special emphasis on tomato fruit quality traits, Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) resistance and pepper fruit set under low temperatures.
- Breeding and production of greenhouse pepper.
Research Projects
- Genotype by night temperature interaction on pepper fruit quality. Funding: Ministry of Agriculture.
- Breeding or pepper varieties for greenhouse production in Spain. Funding: Hazera Seed Co.
- Pepper fruit quality. Funding: Marks & Spencer (UK).
- Breeding of pepper hybrids for greenhouse production in the Arava. Funding: Zeraim Seed Co.
- Transposon tagging of polygenes and argonomically important traits in tomato.
- Quantitative and physiological aspects of transgene expression.
