Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, HUJI

Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment Quality Sciences

The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture

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FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS (1998-2010)

1. Management of diseases caused by whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses

1.1. An in vitro inoculation system to predict, to select for and to study the genetics of resistance against tomato yellow leaf curl virus.

Funded by the Chief Scientist, Ministry of Agriculture (1995-1997).

1.2. Management of diseases caused by whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses in India.

With V. Muniyappa (Agricultural University, Bangalore, India).
Funded by the Israel-India Binational Program in Biotechnology in Agriculture (1997-1999)

1.3. Resistance to tomato yellow leaf curl virus by combining expression of a natural tolerance gene and a defective viral movement protein in a single cultivar

With D. Zamir (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) and B. Lucas and R. Gilbertson (University of California at Davis).
Funded by the United States-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD) (1996-1999).

1.4. Blocking the replication of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus in tomato plants by interfering with viral import in the nucleus.

With Y. Gafni (The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel).
Funded by the Chief Scientist, Ministry of Agriculture, Israel (1997-1999).

1.5. Molecular characterization and disease management strategies for tomato-infecting geminiviruses in Jamaica.

With D. Maxwell and M. Nakhka (University of Wisconsin at Madison) and W. McLaughlin W (The University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica).
Funded by the US AID-CDR (1997-1999).

1.6. Development of tomatoes with combined resistance to Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) using both virus-derived resistance and molecular-assisted breeding.

With S. Vidavski (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), M. Lapidot (The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel), D. Maxwell D and M. Nakhla (University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA), H. Mazyad and M. Shalaby ( Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt), N. Iraqi (Bethlehem University, Palestinian Authority), G. Anfoka (Al-Balqa Applied University, Al-Salt Jordan), M. Sedegui (National Agronomic Research Institute, Rabat, Morocco).
Funded by the US AID-CDR Middle East Research and Cooperation Program (2001-2006).

1.7. Molecular marker-assisted breeding for resistance to whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses infecting tomato in Guatemala.

With L. Mejia (University of San Carlos, Guatemala City, Guatemala) and D. Maxwell and M. Nakhka (University of Wisconsin at Madison).
Funded by the US AID CDR (2001-2004).

1.8. Breeding tomato resistant to Tomato yellow leaf curl virus.

With S. Vidavski (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Funded by TomTech Co. (2004-2006).

1.9. Develop tomato breeding lines with resistance to Ralstonia solanacearum and begomoviruses for Guatemala and Central America

With L. Mejia (University of San Carlos, Guatemala City, Guatemala), Vidavski F (Tomatech Co, Israel), Lavi U and Tsror L (ARO, Israel), Scott JW (University of Florida, USA), Hanson P, Green S, Graham D and Wang JF (AVRDC, Taiwan), and Maxwell D (University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA).
Funded by the US AID CDR (2006-2010).

1.10. Identification of the whitefly-transmitted geminivirus complexes affecting cassava production in the southern regions of Africa and development of cassava resistant lines.

With C. Rey and M. Gray, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa), N. Cossa (Agriculture Research Institute, Maputo, Mozambique) and J. Brown (The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA).
Funded by the US AID-CDR (2003-2009).

1.11. Classical and molecular-assisted breeding of tomatoes resistant to Tomato curly stunt virus (ToCSV) and related viruses for small-scale farmers in South Africa and Mozambique

With C. Rey (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa), Pietersen G (Agricultural Research center, Pretoria, South Africa), Mondjana A (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique).
Funded by the US AID-CDR (2007-2010).

2. Management of plant viruses

2.1. Development of regional indexation and certification program for plant propagation materials in the Middle East.

With D. Maxwell D and M. Nakhla (University of Wisconsin at Madison USA, H. Mazyad and M. Shalaby ( Agricultural Research Center , Giza, Egypt), N. Iraqi (Bethlehem University, Palestinian Authority), G. Anfoka (Al-Balqa Applied University, Al-Salt Jordan), Y. Abou Jawdah (American University of Beirut, Lebanon), M. Sedegui (National Agronomic Research Institute, Rabat, Morocco), M. Marrakchi (Faculty of Science of Tunis, Tunisia).
Funded by the US AID-CDR Middle East Research and Cooperation Program (1998-2005).

2.2. Microarray-based detection of plant viral and viral-like pathogens

With Barba M (Plant Pathology Research Institute, Rome, Italy), Hadidi A (USDA, Hedgegrove MD, USA), Caglayan Kadriye ( Mustafa Kemal University, Antakya, Turkey), Mazyad H (Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt), Anfoka G (Al-Balqa Applied University, Al-Salt, Jordan).
Funded by NATO Science for Peace Program (2006-2009).

2.3. Monitoring of cereal virus and virus-like diseases for prevention through regional detection and quarantine systems

With AboulAta EA (< Plant Pathology Research Institute, ARC, Giza, Egypt ), Anfoka G (Al-Balqa Applied University, Al-Salt, Jordan).
Funded by the US AID-CDR Middle East Research and Cooperation Program (2008-2011).

2.4. Macro- and microarray-based platforms for the detection and identification of plant pathogens

Funded by The Hebrew University Johnson & Johnson Fund for Innovative Science (2009-2010).

3. Interactions of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) with its insect vector, the whitefly Bemisia tabaci

3.1. Transovarial transmission of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus.

With D. Ullman (University of California at Davis).
Funded by the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) (1996-1999).

3.2. Engineering TYLCV into an efficient insect-specific gene expression vector.

Funded by the Chief Scientist, Ministry of Agriculture, Israel (1997-1999).

4. Functional genomics of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci

4.1. The use of DNA microarrays to discover insect genes involved in the circulative transmission of geminiviruses in their insect vector, the whitefly Bemisia tabaci.

Funded by The Israel Science Foundation (ISF) (2002-2006).

4.2. Functional genomics characterization of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci begomovirus interaction: an EST and array-based transcript profiling approach.

With R. Shatters and C. McKenzie (USDA, ARS, USHRL, Fort Pierce, Florida, USA), and J. Brown (The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA)
Funded by the United States-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD) (2003-2007).

4.3. Identification of genes involved in circular transmission of begomoviruses in whiteflies

With H, Ghanim M (Israel), and Winter S (Germany)
Funded by The German Israeli Foundation for Research and Development (GIF) (2008- 2010)

4.4. Dissection of whitefly-geminivirus interactions at the transcriptomic, proteomic and cellular levels

With Ghanim M (Israel), Cicero J, Brown J (USA)
Funded by The United States Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD) (2008- 2011)

4.5. Comparative genomics of virus circulative transmission by two Homopteran insect pests to agriculture, the whitefly Bemisia tabaci and the green peach aphid Myzus persicae

With Ghanim M
Funded by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) (2008-2010)