Basic and applied aspects of plant-bacteria interactions.

Bacterial biocontrol of pathogens.

Biological control of soilborne plant diseases by using antagonistic organisms.

Drug resistance in fungi, Genome instability and chromosome biology in fungal plant pathogens.

Diseases and disease resistance in natural populations of crop progenitors.

Microbial community ecology and evolution

Environmental Microbiology, Recycling Municipal and Agricultural Waste, Degradation of lignocellulose

Microbial interactions in the rhizosphere, Biological control of plant pathogens, Mechanisms of bacterial stress responses.

IN MEMORY OF

Prof. Yigal Henis

1926 – 2010

physiology of fungal spore germination, morphogenesis and differentiation in fungi, biological control, biology of soilborne pathogens, interactions between soil pathogens and soil biota, soil suppressiveness, integrated control, bacterial diseases, microflora of stored products, degradation of pesticides and pollutants in soil bioremediation, nitrogen fixation, microbial ecology, cellulose degradation, edible mushrooms, water microbiology

Predatory bacteria, Bacteria-tephritid fruit flies symbioses, Molecular profiling of soil microbial populations.

Using systems biology to study ecology and evolution of microbes.

Biology, ecology and control of soil-borne plant pathogens, Soil solarization.

IN MEMORY OF

Prof. Robert Kenneth

1922–2012

Taxonomy of fungi, cereal diseases, diseases of wild grasses, wild cereals as sources for disease resistance, taxonomy of Helminthosporia and related fungi pathogenic to Gramineae, entomophagous fungi as potential biocontrol agents and biocontrol of weeds by pathogens using naturally occurring fungal pathogens

Glucosinolate accumulation, Biological control of Botrytis cinerea.

Plant microbiome gene function and inter-bacterial warfare.