Dr. Daniel Zamir
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Faculty of Agriculture
P.O. Box 12, Rehovot 76100 Israel
Tel: 972-8-9489092
Fax: 972-8-9468265
e.mail: zamir@agri.huji.ac.il
Personal
Date of Birth: Jan 6, 1950, Jerusalem, Israel
Marital Status: Married, five children
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Davis, Genetics (1978-1981).
M.S. University of California, Davis, Vegetable Crops (1977-1978)
B.S. Agronomy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (1974-1977)
Appointments
1996- Prof. Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of
Agriculture, Rehovot
1992- 1996 Assoc. Prof in Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Faculty of Agriculture, Rehovot
1986- 91 Senior Lecturer in Genetics, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, Rehovot
1982-85 Lecturer in Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Faculty of Agriculture, Rehovot
Research Interests
The underlying hypothesis for the projects in the lab is that
rate-limiting pathways for agricultural yield are common among crop
plants. Identification of genes affecting yield in tomato could lead to
the discovery of yield limiting pathways in other crop plants. Our
objective is to use map based cloning technologies to isolate genes
affecting yield in tomato. The first gene that was cloned is sp (Self
Pruning) that regulates determinate and indeterminate growth. The other
target genes originate from wild Lycopersicon species and are
responsible for yield and/or Total Soluble Solids (Brix) increase in
determinate and indeterminate tomatoes. Once such genes are identified,
cloned and characterized, their role in other crop plants will be
investigated
Recent Publications
Eshed Y and D Zamir (1995) An introgression line population of
Lycopersicon pennellii in the cultivated tomato enables the
identification and fine mapping of yield associated QTL. Genetics
141:1147-1162.
Tanksley SD, S Grandillo, TM Fulton, D Zamir, Y Eshed, V Petiard, J
Lopez and T Beck-Bunn (1996) Advanced backcross QTL analysis in a cross
between an elite processing line of tomato and its wild relative L.
pimpinellifolium. Theor Appl Genet 92:213-224.
Eshed Y, G Gera and D Zamir (1996) A genome-wide search for
wild-species alleles that increase horticultural yield of processing
tomatoes Theor Appl Genet 93: 877-886.
Eshed Y and D Zamir (1996) Less than additive epistatic interactions
of QTL in tomato. Genetics 143:1807-1817.
Ori N, Y Eshed, P Pinto, I Paran, D Zamir and R Fluhr (1997) TAO-1 a
representative of the molybdenum cofactor containing hydroxylases from
tomato. J. Biol. Chem. 272:1019-1025.
Paran I, I Goldman and D Zamir (1997) QTL analysis of morphological
traits in tomato recombinant inbred line population. Genome 40:
242-248.
Ori N, Y Eshed, I Paran, G Presting, D Aviv, S Tanksley, D Zamir and
R Fluhr (1997) The I2C family from the wilt disease resistance locus
belongs to the nucleotide binding, leucine-rich repeat superfamily of
plant resistance genes. Plant Cell 9:521-532.
Fulton TM, T Beck-Bunn, D Emmatty, Y Eshed, J Lopez, J Uhlig, D
Zamir and SD Tanksley (1997) QTL analysis of an advanced backcross of
Lycopersicon peruvianum to the cultivated tomato and comparison of QTLs
found in other wild species. Theor Appl Genet 95:881-894.
Tanksley SD, D Bernachi, T Beck-Bunn, D Emmatty, Y Eshed, S Inai, J
Lopez, V Petiard, H Sayama, J Uhlig and D Zamir (1997) Evaluations of
yield and quality on a pair of processing tomato inbreds nearly
isogenic for the Tm2a gene for resistance to the tobacco mosaic virus.
Euphytica 99:77-83.
Parnis A, O Cohen, T Gutfinger, D Hareven, D Zamir and E Lifschitz
(1997) Two different developmental mutants of tomato, Mouse-ear and
Curl, are associated with two distinct modes of abnormal
transcriptional regulation of a knotted gene. Plant Cell 9:2143-2158.
Zamir D and Y Eshed (1998) Tomato genetics and breeding using nearly
isogenic introgression lines derived from wild species. in: Molecular
Dissection of Complex Traits. ed. AH Paterson. CRC Press Inc. Fl.
207-217.
Bernacchi D, T Beck-Bunn, Y Eshed, S Inai, J Lopez, V Petiard, J
Uhlig, D Zamir and SD Tanksley (1997) Advanced backcross QTL analysis
of tomato: I. Identification of QTL for traits of agronomic importance
from Lycopersicon hirsutum. Theor Appl Genet 97: 381-397.
Bernacchi D, T Beck-Bunn, D Emmaty, Y Eshed, S Inai, J Lopez, V
Petiard, J Uhlig, D Zamir and SD Tanksley (1997) Advanced backcross QTL
analysis of tomato: Evaluation of near-isogenic lines carrying single
donor introgressions for desirable wild QTL alleles derived from
Lycopersicon hirsutum and L. pimpinellifolium. Theor Appl Genet
97:170-180.
Pnueli L, Carmel-Goren L, Hareven D, Gutfinger T, Alvarez J, Ganal
M, Zamir D and Lifschitz E (1998) The SELF-PRUNING gene of tomato
regulates vegetative to reproductive switching of sympodial meristems
and is the ortholog of CEN and TFL1. Development 125:1979-1989.
Grandillo S, D Zamir and SD Tanksley (1999) Genetic improvement of
processing tomatoes: A twenty year perspective. Euphytica 110: 85-97.
Ronen G, Cohen M, Zamir D and Y Hirschberg (1999) Regulation of
carotenoids biosynthesis during tomato fruit development: expression of
the gene lycopene epsilon cyclase is down-regulated during ripening and
is elevated in the mutant Delta. The Plant Journal 17: 341-352.
Ron M, Kantety R, Martin GB, Avidan N, Eshed Y, Zamir D and A Avni
(2000) High resolution linkage analysis and physical characterization
of the EIX-responding locus in tomato. Theor Appl Genet 100: 184-189.
Qilin P, Yong-Sheng L, Budai-Hadrian O, Sela M, Carmel-Goren L,
Zamir D and R Fluhr (2000) Comparative genetics of NBS-LRR resistance
gene homologues in the genomes of two dicotyledons: tomato and
Arabidopsis. Genetics 155: 309-322.
Fridman E, Pleban T and D Zamir (2000) A recombination hotspot
delimits a wild species QTL for tomato sugar content to 484-bp within
an invertase gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 97: 4718-4723.
Fulton TM, S Grandillo, T Beck-Bunn, E Fridman, A Frampton, J Lopez,
V Petiard, J Uhlig, D Zamir and SD Tanksley (2000) Advanced backcross
analysis of Lycopersicon esculentum x L. parviflorum cross. Theor.
Appl. Genet. 100: 1025-1042.
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