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Teaching

Areas of Teaching:

  • Soil Microbiology.
  • Fungal Physiology.
  • Biological control of plant diseases.

Prof. Ilan Chet

 

Research Interests:

  • Biological control of soilborne plant diseases by using antagonistic organisms.
  • Biotechnology, cloning of the chitinase gene to biocontrol agents.

Wikipedia

 

Prof. Saul Burdman

Research in our lab is in the area of plant-bacteria interactions. Plants are our main suppliers of food and fibers. In their environment, plants interact with other organisms, including bacteria. The outcome can be beneficial or detrimental. The basic understanding of both kinds of interactions is of fundamental importance for agriculture, to manage conditions for coping with disease and promoting higher crop yields, while minimizing negative impacts on the environment.

Publications

Selected Publications:

Bahat-Samet E., Castro-Sowinski, S and Okon, Y. 2004.Arabinose content of extracellular polysaccharide plays a role in cell aggregation of Azospirillum brasilense. FEMS Microbiology Letters 237:195-203.

Kadouri, D., Castro-Sowinski, S., Jurkevitch, E. and Okon, Y. 2005. Ecological and agricultural significance of bacterialpolyhydroxyalkanoates. Critical Reviews in Microbiology 31:55-67.

Members

Post-doc. Scholars:

  • Susana Castro-Sowinski
  • Angel Valverde-Portal

Present students:

  • Hila Kramer-Haimovich PhD student
  • Anat Lerner PhD student
  • Sharon Fibach PhD student
  • Anat Shtarker MSc student

Teaching

Teaching:

  • General Microbiology
  • Phytobacteriology
  • Biological Nitrogen Fixation

Prof. Yaacov Okon

Research Interests:

Biological nitrogen fixation and plant promoting effects in associations between rhizophere bacteria and roots of grasses, legumes and vegetables. Biological nitrogen fixation in the Rhizobium legume symbiosis and bacterial diseases of plants.

Awards and Appointments

Awards and Special Appointments (see also full CV):

1977-1979 President, The Israeli Phytopathological Society.

1981-1986 Appointed by the President of Israel to the Council of Higher Education.

1990 The incumbent Buck Family Chair in Plant Pathology and Microbiology.

1991 Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society.

Full CV - Prof. Jaacov Katan

Prof. Jaacov Katan

Research Interests:

  • Biology, ecology and control of soil-borne plant pathogens.
     
  • Soil solarization for controlling soil-borne plant diseases (See the soil solarization home page)
     
  • Soilborne diseases in vegetables and cotton.
     
  • Vegetative compatibility grouping of Fusarium and Verticillium.
     
  • Epidemiology of soilborne pathogens.
     
  • Interactions between pesticides and plant pathogens and other soil microbes.
     
Full CV - Prof. Jaacov Katan

Patents

Patents

Growth enhancement of plants 
(US Patent US20140325707 A1, EP 2761007 A1) 
by I. Sela, H. D. Rabinowitch, L. Chernin, R. Mozes-Koch.

A method and kit for detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa 
(US Patent Application No. 61/947,080) 
by Y. Helman, N. Sobel, S. Shushan, I. Kviatkovski, I. Frumin, L. Chernin.

Publications

Selected Publications

Books:

Alikhanyan, S.I., Akifyev, A.P. and Chernin, L.S. (1985) General Genetics (textbook). “High School” Publ., Moscow, 446 pp. (Rus.)

Chernin, L.S. (1990) First steps in future: plant genetic engineering. “Agropromizdat” Publ. Moscow, 255 pp. (Rus.)

Reviews/chapters in books and journals:

Chernin, L.S. (1977) Genetic engineering. In: “Great Medical Encyclopedia”, v. 5. “Medicine" Publ., Moscow (Rus.).

Prof. Leonid Chernin

Research Interests

  • Bacterial biocontrol agents of fungal and bacterial plant pathogens;
  • Genetics, regulation and mechanisms of the bacteria biocontrol activity;
  • Cell to cell communication (quorum-sensing) in plant-associated bacteria;
  • Genetic manipulation of plant growth promoting bacteria and plants to enhance biocontrol of phytopathogens;,
  • Oncogenicity of Agrobacterium tumefaciens and its control