Moshe J. Pinthus
1926 Born Cologne, Germany, In Israel since November
1933.
1950 M.Sc. (Agr.) Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
1957 Ph.D., Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1958 Honorary Fellow University of Minnesota (Department of
Agronomy and plant Genetics).
1950-1955 Research Agronomist, Government Agricultural
Experiment Station, Neve Ya’ar.
1955 Instructor at the Faculty of Agriculture of the Hebrew
University (Rehovot).
1959 Lecturer
1965 Senior Lecturer
1969 Associate Professor
1983 Professor
1968 Sabbatical leave. Research at the Plant Breeding
Institute, Cambridge, England; and visit to several
Universities and other research institutions in the U.S.
1970-1973 Chairman of Field & Vegetable Crops group, Fac. of
Agriculture.
1972 Release of wheat cultivar “Alpha”.
1974 Sabbatical leave. Study tours including CIMMYT , Mexico
and Universities and other research institutions in Sweden
(on a grant from The Royal Academy of Forestry and
Agriculture), England and the U.S.
1974-1977 Head, Dept. of Field and Vegetable Crops, Fac. of
Agriculture.
1980-1982 Chairman, Genetics and Breeding group, Fac. of
Agriculture.
1987 Sabbatical leave. Research at the Institute of Plant
Science Research, Cambridge Laboratory, England.
1992 Sabbatical leave. Research at the Long Ashton Research
Station, England.
1993-1994 Chairman of Field & Vegetable Crops group, Fac. of
Agriculture.
1995, 1st Oct. Retired.
Present Research
History of agricultural research in the land of Israel
during the pre-state era.
Pinthus, M.J. (1959). Seed set of self fertilized Sunflower
heads. Agronomy Journal 51:626.
Pinthus, M.J. (1963). Inheritance of heading date in some
spring wheat varieties. Crop Science 3:301-304.
Lupton, F.G.H. and Pinthus, M.J. (1969). Carbohydrate
translocation from small tillers to spike-producing shoots
in wheat. Nature 221:483-484.
Pinthus, M.J. (1973). Lodging in wheat. Barley and oats: the
phenomenon, its causes and preventive measures. Advances in
Agronomy 25:209-265.
Pinthus, M.J. and Nerson, H. (1984). Effect of photoperiod
at different growth stages on the initiation of spikelet
primordial in wheat. Aaustralian Journal of Plant Physiology
11:17-22.
Pinthus, M.J., Gale, M.D., Appleford, N.E.J. and Lenton,
J.R. (1989). Effect of temperature on gibberellin (GA)
responsiveness and on endogenous GA, content of tall and
dwarf wheat genotypes. Plant Physiology 90:854-859.
Pinthus, M.J. and Belcher, A.R. (1994). Maize topmost
axilary shoot interference with lower ear development in
vitro. Crop Science 34:458-461.
Recent publications:
Pinthus, M.J. (1996) The 1959 revolution in growing
chickpeas in Israel. Hassadeh 76(8):36-37 (in Hebrew).
Pinthus, N.J. and Abraham, M. (1996) Effects of light,
temperature, gibberellin (GA3) and their interaction on
coleoptile and leaf elongation of tall, semi-dwarf and dwarf
wheat. Plant Growth Regulation 18:239-247.
Beharav, A., Cahaner, and Pinthus M.J. (1998) Genetic
correlations between culm length, grain yield and seedling
elongation within tall (rht l) and semi-dwarf (rht l) spring
wheat (Tritium aestivum L.). Eur. J. Agronomy 9:35-40.
Behharav, A., Pinthus, M.J. and Cahaner, A. (1998)
Estimating heritability of families derived from single
plants at an advanced generation of self fertilizing
species. Israel J. Plant Sci. 46:209-212.
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