David Levy
Tel: 972 8 9489764
Fax: 972 8 9489899
Email: dlevy@agri.huji.ac.il
Experience:
- 2003-present:
The Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences.
- 1993-2001:
Head, Institute of Field and Garden Crops, The Volcani Center, ARO.
- 1991-1993:
Head, Department of Vegetable Crops, The Volcani Center, ARO.
BOOKS
AND REVIEWS
Levy, D. and Veilleux R.E. 2007.
Adaptation of Potato to High Temperatures and Salinity-A Review.
American Journal of Potato Research 84:437-456
Levy, D., Kedar, N. and Levy Naomi, 2006.
Pepino (Solanum muricatum Aiton): Breeding
in Israel for better taste and aroma. Israel Journal of Plant
Sciences.
54:205-213
Rabinowitch, H.D. and Levy, D.
2001. Biology and Physiology of the Potato. In: Virus and
Virus-Like Diseases of Potatoes and Production of Seed Potatoes. pp. 19-37
(G. Loebenstein, P.H. Berger, A.A. Brunt and R.H. Lawson, Eds.)
Levy, D. 2000. Achievements
in Potato Breeding in Diverse Climates. Proceedings of the Global
Conference on Potato, New Delhi, India. pp. 122-128.
Levy, D. (ed.) 1998.
Potatoes in Hot Climates. Israel Agrisearch 9(1), ARO, The Volcani
Center, Bet Dagan, Israel. (English abstracts), 141 pp.
Levy, D. 1992. The Potato
Crop. In: The Encyclopedia of Agriculture, vol. 6. Vegetable Crops,
II, pp. 3-27 (I. Arnon and S. Meller, eds.). The Encyclopedia of
Agriculture Tel-Aviv, Israel (in Hebrew).
Levy, D. and Kedar, N.
1985. Potatoes and Related Species. In: Handbook of Flowering Vol.
IV. pp. 363-366 (A.H. Halevy, ed.) CRC Press., USA.
PUBLICATIONS
Levy, D., Fogelman, E., Itzhak, Y., Ma, Q., Turner, D.W. and Cowling, W.A. 2006.
Osmotic adjustment in leaves of Brassica oilseed in response to water deficit.
Canadian J. Plant Sci. 86:389-397.
Ma, Q., Turner, D.W., Levy, D.,
Cowling, W. 2004. Solute accumulation and osmotic adjustment in
leaves of Brassica oilseed in response to soil water deficit. Aust.
J. Exp. Agric. 55, 939-945.
Van Dam, J., Levin, I., Struik,
P.C. and Levy, D. 2003. Identification of epinastic
Interaction affecting glycoalkaloid content in tubers of tetraploid
potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). Euphytica 134:353-360.
Boluarte-Medina, T., Fogelman, E.,
Chani, E., Miller, A.R., Levin, I., Levy, D. and Veilleux,
R.E. 2002. Identification of molecular markers associated with
leptine in reciprocal backcross families of diploid potato. Theor.
Appl. Genet.105:1010-1018.
Levy, D., Itzhak, Y.,
Fogelman, E., Margalit, E. and Veilleux R.E. 2001. Ori, Idit, Zohar
and Zahov: Tablestock and Chipstock Cultivars Bred for Adaptation to
Israel. Amer. J. Potato Res. 77: 1-5.
Ashkenazi, V., Chani, E., Lavi,
U., Levy, D., Hillel, J. and Veilleux, R. E. 2001. Development
of microsatellite markers in potato and their use in phylogenetic and
fingerprinting analysis. Genome 44:50-62.
Van Dam, J., Levin, I., Struik,
P.C. and Levy, D. 1999. Genetic characterization of tetraploid
potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) emphasising genetic control of
total glycoalkaloid content in the tubers. Euphytica 110:
67-76.
Rosner, A., Sara Spiegel, Ludmila
Maslenin and Levy, D. 1998. The use of S1 nuclease treatment
of hybrid PCR products for the differentiation between PVY isolates.
Ann. Appl. Biol. 132:107-114.
Veilleux, R.E., Paz, Margarita M.
and Levy, D. 1997. Potato germplasm development for warm
climates: genetic enhancement of tolerance to heat stress. Euphytica
98: 83-92.
Dimenstein, L., Lisker, N., Kedar,
N. and Levy, D. 1997. Accumulatin of steroidal glycoalkaloids
in potato tubers grown in the field and in the greenhouse under
different conditions of light, temperature and daylength. Physiol.
Mol. Plant Pathol. 50: 391-402.
Levy, D., Edna Fogelman,
Alexandra Levine and Itzhak, Y. 1995. Tuberization in vitro
and dormancy of potato (Solanum tuberosum) microtubers. In: M.
Terzi et al. (eds.), Current Issues in Plant Molecular and Cellular
Biology: 123-125. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands.
Tai, G.C.C., Levy, D.
and Coleman, W.K. 1994. Path analysis of genotype-environment
interactions of potatoes exposed to increasing warm-climate
constrains. Euphytica 75: 49-61.
Levy, D., Fogelman, Edna
and Izhak, Y. 1993. Influence of water and soil salinity on emergence
and early development of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)
cultivars and effect of physiological age of seed tubers. Potato
Res. 36: 335-340.
Levy, D., Seabrook, J.E.A.
and Coleman, S. 1993. Enhancement of tuberization of axillary shoot
buds of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) cultivars cultured in
vitro. J.Expt. Bot. 44: 381-386.
Seabrook, J.E.A., Coleman, S. and
Levy, D. 1993. Effect of photoperiod on in vitro
tuberization of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). Plant
Cell, Tissue Organ Cult. 34: 43-51.
Shomer, I., Rao, M.A., Bourne,
M.C. and Levy, D. 1993. Impact of temperature and cellulase
treatments on rehological behavior of potato tuber cell suspensions.
J. of Sci. Food Agric. 63: 245-250.
Levy, D. 1992. Osmotic
potential of potatoes subjected to a single cycle of water deficit.
Potato Res. 35: 17-24.
Levy, D. 1992. The response
of potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.) to salinity: plant growth
and tuber yields in the arid desert of Israel. Ann. Appl. Biol.
120: 547-555.
Levy, D. and Marco, S.
1991. Indices of water deficit in susceptible and resistant cucumbers
in response to infection by cucumber mosaic virus. Ann. Appl.
Biol. 119: 381-386.
Levy,
D., Kastenbaum, E. and Itzhak, Y. 1991. Evaluation of parents and
selection for heat tolerance in the early
generations of a potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) breeding
program. Theor. Appl. Genet. 82: 130-136.
Levy,
D., Genizi, A. and Goldman, A. 1990. Compatibility of potatoes to
contrasting seasonal conditions, to high
temperatures and to water deficit: The association with time of
maturation and yield potential. Potato Res. 33: 325-334.
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