IN MEMORY OF

Prof. Moshe J. Pinthus

Moshe_Pinthus

1926 - 2012

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.

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.

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.