• Daniel Bikel paper on "Nutritive value for high-yielding lactating cows of barley silage and hay as a substitute for wheat silage and hay in low-roughage diets" is accepted for publication in"Animal Feed Science and Technology".

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• Recent publication: Beharav, A., Malarz, J., Michalska, K., Ben-David, R., & Stojakowska, A. (2020). Variation of sesquiterpene lactone contents in Lactuca altaica natural populations from Armenia. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 90, 104030. DOI 10.1016/j.bse.2020.104030.

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• We welcome Dr. Shailesh Yadav as Postdoctoral Fellow in our lab. 

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• We say farewell to Rajib  which leave  us after 2 years and joins Blue berry lab in the ARO. Good luck Rajib!

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• Our new manuscript 'Characterization of the Barley Net Blotch Pathosystem at the center of origin of host and pathogen' has been accepted in Pathogens Journal. Congratulations to the authors!!! 

 

• Congratulations to Sivan Frankin have own the Molcho scholarship supporting her IPLR research in Gilat.

 

• Congratulations to Daniel Bikel for submitted his M.Sc. thesis to the The Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

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• Our research on the exotic wheat germplasm is now become a feature article "BACK FROM THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION" in CIMMYT (Mexico) news headline. Please go through the link for details: https://www.cimmyt.org/news/back-from-the-brink-of-extinction/. September 13, 2019.

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• Michael and Ohad joined the lab to pursue M.Sc.

 

• Congratulations Daniel Bikel to successfully defend his Master's thesis. August 14, 2019.   

 

• Rajib has presented his poster on 'Pre-anthesis spike growth dynamics and its association to wheat yield components: Israeli cultivars as a test case' (poster no. 244) in 1st International Wheat Congress (21-26 July, 2019), Saskatoon, Canada. July 28, 2019. 

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• Rajib has been selected for the travel grant by Wheat Initiative to attend the pre-conference workshop on 'UAV based wheat phenotyping' (19-20 July, 2019) in University of Saskatchewan, Canada. July 28, 2019.

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• Sivan's new paper entitled 'The Israeli–Palestinian wheat landraces collection: restoration and characterization of lost genetic diversity' has been accepted in Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture and is now online (https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.9822). June 1, 2019.

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• Congratulations to all our lab-members to finish the field harvesting. May 20, 2019.

 

• Maya and Nili joined our lab as research assistant.

 

• Another sowing session is underway with a new game changer our new WINTERSTEIGER Plotseed XL Heavy plot seeders. Many thanks and bye-bye to our 50 years old WINTERSTEIGER Plotseeder. November 1, 2018.

 

• Arie Curzon has finished his M.Sc. research project entitled "Adaptation of Spelt wheat lines to Mediterranean environment" and join Prof. Micha Ron to work on Heredity of sex determination in fish in October, 2018.

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• Sivan Frankin has won the Wheat Initiative travel grant.​

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• Sivan Frankin has presented a scientific poster and a short talk at The Seed to Pasta III Conference, September 19 – 21 (2018), Bologna, Italy.

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• Sivan Frankin has presented a scientific poster in the 1st International Conference of Wheat Landrace, June 13 – 15 (2018) in Bologna, Italy.

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• Moshe Ronen has finished his M.Sc. research project entitled "The net blotch disease in Barley - characterization of the pathogen Pyrenophora teres f. teres and screening for resistance in wild and domesticated hosts" and afterthat joined in our lab as Research Engineer in March, 2018.

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• Dr. Rajib Roychowdhury has joined the lab as Postdoc in February, 2018.

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• Kamal Nashef, our lab manager, received the ARO Employee of the Year Award in 2017.