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Ghanim
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Morad
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Whiteflies and B. tabaci-transmitted viruses on the biological and molecular levels. Pathogen-vector systems and insect pest resistance to pesticides. The role of bacterial symbionts of B. tabaci and other insects in pathogen transmission.
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Glazer
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Itamar
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Biological control of insect pests by microbial control agents.
Entomopathogenic nematodes - ecology, genetics and application.
Entomopathogenic fungi - ecology, host-parasite interactions and application.
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Abraham
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Gamliel
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Pest management strategies, methods and technologies; Plant and food biosecurity; Invasive pests; Soilborne pathogens; Soil disinfestations and soil solarization.
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Dombrovsky
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Aviv
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Transmission of plant viruses; Virus vector interactions; Aphid-pathogenic viruses
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Horowirtz
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Sigal
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The role of lipid signals in regulating plant response to plant parasitic nematodes; the occurrence of Root Knot Nematode breaking resistance populations on tomato and pepper plants carrying resistance genes; developing new friendly biological control agents toward reducing the damage caused by plant parasitic nematodes.
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Yelin
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Mery Daphne
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Lapidot
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Moshe
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Viral resistance in vegetable crops; mechanisms and genetics of viral resistance; whitefly-transmitted viruses.
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Mawassi
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Munir
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Grapevine and citrus viruses; phytoplasmal diseases in grapevines; citrus spiroplasmal diseases and viroids.
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Minz
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Dror
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Microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, rhizosphere microbiology, microbial communities structure and function in soil and water systems, biofilm microbiology, biocontrol of plant pathogens.
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Mendel
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Zvi
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Manulis
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Shula
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The molecular basis of bacterial-host interactions, cloning and characterization of pathogenicity genes, development and implementation of molecular techniques for detection of major and economically important bacterial diseases.
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Soroker
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Victoria
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Chemical Ecology: Regulation of pheromone production and detection in honeybees; host recognition in arthropods ; isolation of sex pheromones.
Honeybee colony losses.
IPM - Date palm pests.
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Cytryn
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Eddie
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Antibiotic resistance in agroecosystems; biocontrol agents; root-microbe interactions.
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Palevsky
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Eric
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Integrated control of plant feeding mites; food web engineering for enhancing the performance of predatory mites for mite pest control above soil and for arthropod and plant parasitic nematode control below soil.
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Prusky
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Dov
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Interactions between fruit and pathogenic fungi; Biochemical and molecular mechanisms controlling postharvest fungal virulence and fruit resistance factors; Transformation-mediated gene disruption strains; The biochemical basis for modulation of pathogenicity of postharvest pathogens; Effect of the secreted substances on the modulation of host local pH and program cell death; Etiology and control of postharvest losses in deciduous and subtropical fruits by integration of pre-and postharvest treatments.
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Chejanovsky
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Nor
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Insect antiviral response: innate immunity, RNAi, apoptosis. Bee viruses (host range, prevention, colony collapse disorder CCD).
Baculoviruses (host range, implementation in pest control).
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Tsror
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Lea
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Host-pathogen interaction; epidemiology & control of soil-borne pathogens; potato diseases; verticillium wilt; development of disease diagnostic methods
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Koltai
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Hinanit
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Research and development of new cannabis-based medical drugs; medicinal plants uses for anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory activity.
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Raviv
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Michael
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Plant nutrition and long-term soil fertility building in organic farming; composting of organic wastes; the role of composts in inducing suppressiveness against soil-borne diseases; microcalorimetry
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Rafaeli
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Ada
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Insect physiology - pheromones, hormones, neurobioactive compounds, receptors, transducers and second messengers. Information molecules that can be used to develop insect specific bio-rational insecticides with enhanced safety.
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Shtienberg
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Dani
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Epidemiology of plant disease; crop loss assessment; development of decision support systems, IPM and modeling; host-pathogen interactions at the population level.
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Spiegel
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Yitzhak
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Control of plant-parasitic nematodes by intervention in the host-recognition process; biological control of plant-parasitic nematodes; cereal cyst, citrus and ornamental nematodes in Israel.
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