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Mailing Address:
The Robert H. Smith Institute of
Plant Sciences and Genetics
in Agriculture
Herzl 229, Rehovot 7610001, Israel

Administrator: 
Neomi Maimon 
Tel: 972-8-948-9251,
Fax: 972-8-948-9899,
E-mail: neomim@savion.huji.ac.il

Secretary of teaching program:
Ms. Iris Izenshtadt
Tel: 972-8-9489333
E-mail: Iris.Izenshtadt@mail.huji.ac.il

Director: 
Prof. Naomi Ori
Tel: 972-8-948-9605
E-mail: naomi.ori@mail.huji.ac.il

 

people

Prof. Zvi Peleg

Visit the Peleg Lab Website
 

Research Interests

Wheat production under climate changes: The highly variable and unpredicted rainfall within and between seasons, which characterize the Mediterranean region, results in significant yield losses. Our research focuses on improving wheat production under changing climate.

Prof. Abraham Halevy

Born 1927 in Tel-Aviv. Received Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1958. 
Founded the Department of Ornamental Horticulture at the Hebrew University in 1964 
and served as the Head of Department for 21 years, until 1985. 

Nominated Full Professor in Horticulture and Plant Physiology in 1970, and Wolfsan Chair in 1982. 
Served as a Research Fellow at Plant Industry Station,  Beltsville  USDA (1958-9) and as a Visiting Professor, Michigan State University (1964-5) and the University of California, Davis (1970-1, 1973, 1975-6, 1982-4, 1986-7, 1989, 1991-2). 

Prof. Amos Dovrat

Born 1920, Rotterdam; Ph.D. 1963, Hebrew Univ.; Lect. 1959; Sen. Lect. 1964; Assoc. Prof. 1970; 1982; Emeritus 1990.

Professor Dovrat passed away on July 18, 2012 at the age of 92. He is survived by his wife Tamar, his children, grand-children and great granchildren.

 

מועצת הפקולטה, 12/12/2012

דברים לזכרו של פרופ' עמוס דברת ז"ל

List of Publications

  • Bratt, A. *, Rosenwasser, S.* , Meyer, A., and Fluhr, R. (2016). Organelle redox autonomy during environmental stress. Plant Cell Environ.‏ 39(9):1909-19
  • Rosenwasser, S. , Ziv, C., van Creveld, S. G., and Vardi, A. (2016). Virocell Metabolism: Metabolic innovations during host–virus interactions in the Ocean. Trends Microbiol. 24(10), 821-832.‏

Dr. Shilo Rosenwasser

Research Interests

Redox regulation of metabolism, stress acclimation, and cell death in photosynthetic organisms.

List of Publications

  • Bar M, Israeli A, Levy M, Ben-gera H, Jiménez-Gómez J, Kouril S, Tarkowski P, Ori N. (2016). CLAUSA is a MYB Transcription Factor that Promotes Leaf Differentiation by Attenuating Cytokinin Signaling. The Plant Cell. Jul;pii: tpc.00211.2016.
  • Shwartz I, Levy M, Ori N, Bar M. Hormones in tomato leaf development. (2016). Developmental Biology. Jun;pii:S0012-1606(16)30107-5.

Major Projects

  1. The balance between morphogenesis, growth and differentiation in leaf development, and the interaction between transcription factors and hormones in regulating this balance.
  2. Patterning of the leaf margin: Differential growth at the leaf margins enables enormous variability of leaf shape. We investigate the regulators of leaf patterning. Specifically, we investigate the role of auxin and its regulators in leaf patterning.
  3. Regulation of fruit set in tomato.