Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture

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Mailing Address:
The Robert H. Smith Institute of
Plant Sciences and Genetics
in Agriculture
POB 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel

Administrator: Anat Gazit Booton
Tel: 972-8-948-9251,
Fax: 972-8-948-9899,
E-mail: anatg@savion.huji.ac.il

Director: Prof. David Weiss
Tel: 972-8-948-9436
Fax: 972-8-948-9899
E-mail: david.weiss@mail.huji.ac.il

Welcome to The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture

Plants have been instrumental for the development and establishment of Life on Earth. They provide our food and are the source of almost all energy used by mankind. Most alternative energy resources of the future are also likely to be plant-based.

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Congratulations to Dr. Smadar Harpaz-Saad from our institute,
on receiving tenure at the rank Senior Lecturer in Plant Sciences

About

The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture brings together more than 20 excellent plant scientists who study a wide range of aspects of plant biology relevant to agriculture, from the molecular and cellular levels, and all the way to the whole plant in the field.

The aim of the Institute is to meet future agricultural requirements through applied and basic fundamental research in plant sciences. This research enables us to improve yields and quality,
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Research

Research activities in the Institute include the following areas: genetics, evolution, cellular biology, computational biology, developmental biology, plant physiology, stress physiology, ecophysiology, physiology of agricultural production and relationship between agricultural plants and their environment, agricultural genomics, precision agriculture and remote sensing, breeding, biotechnology, genome editing, applied ecology, nature preservation and management of open areas.
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