Publications

Discover recent publications from our research on winter cereals, advancing knowledge in crop genetics, physiology, and adaptation.

Lab Publications

Internode water-soluble carbohydrate dynamics as a driver of yield stability in Mediterranean wheat

Simeon Ntawuguranayo, Michael Zilberberg, Kamal Nashef, Marina Baizerman, David Malede, Rajib Roychowdhury, David J. Bonfil, Zvi Peleg, Roi Ben-David

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2026.110530

May 9, 2026

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Comparative study of winter cereals forage productivity in Mediterranean agro-system highlight possibilities for crop improvement and agronomic diversification

Molla Gereme Taye, Aviv Tzuberi, Kamal Nashef, David Malada, David J. Bonfil, Yehoshua Saranga, Yehoshav Ariel Ben-Meir, Roi Ben-David

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2025.110272

December 5, 2025

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Stem traits promote wheat climate-resilience

Simeon Ntawuguranayo, Michael Zilberberg, Kamal Nashef, David J. Bonfil, Naresh Kumar Bainsla, Francisco J. Piñera-Chavez, Matthew Paul Reynolds, Zvi Peleg, Roi Ben-David

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2024.1388881

July 25, 2024

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New flavors from old wheats: exploring the aroma profiles and sensory attributes of local Mediterranean wheat landraces

Sivan Frankin, Alon Cna'ani, David J. Bonfil, Vered Tzin, Kamal Nashef, Doron Degen, Yasmin Simhon, Marina Baizerman, Maria Itria Ibba, Héctor Ignacio González Santoyo, Cyntia Velazquez Luna, Jose Fausto Cervantes Lopez, Anomarel Ogen, B. Z. Goldberg, Shahal Abbo, Roi Ben-David

https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1059078

May 18, 2023

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Towards stable wheat grain yield and quality under climatic instability

David J. Bonfil, Shahal Abbo, Doron Degen, Yasmin Simchon, Roi Ben-David

https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.21351

April 3, 2023

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Collaborative Publications

Ancient grains illuminate the mosaic origin of domesticated wheat

Yael Lev-Mirom, Nimrod Ashkenazy, Valentyna Klymiuk, Jennifer Ens, Krysta Wiebe, Verena J. Schuenemann, Tamar Eilam, Sharon Kulikovsky, Bar A. Lavi, Torsten Günther, Tamar Krugman, Hanan Sela, Eitan Klein, Amir Ganor, Uri Davidovich, Roi Porat, Erez Ben-Yosef, Michal David, Sivan Frankin, Roi Ben-David, Emile Cavalet-Giorsa, Simon G. Krattinger, Abraham Korol, Martin Mascher, Axel Himmelbach, Nils Stein, Johannes Krause, Assaf Distelfeld, Ehud Weiss, Tzion Fahima, Curtis J. Pozniak & Sariel Hübner

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-026-02283-y

April 23, 2026

UAV-borne hyperspectral and thermal imagery integration empowers genetic dissection of wheat stomatal conductance

Roy Sadeh, Victor Alchanatis, Roi Ben-David, Zvi Peleg, Ittai Herrmann

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2025.110411

April 19, 2025

The AvrPm3-Pm3 effector-NLR interactions control both race-specific resistance and host-specificity of cereal mildews on wheat

Salim Bourras, Lukas Kunz, Minfeng Xue, Coraline Rosalie Praz, Marion Claudia Müller, Carol Kälin, Michael Schläfli, Patrick Ackermann, Simon Flückiger, Francis Parlange, Fabrizio Menardo, Luisa Katharina Schaefer, Roi Ben-David, Stefan Roffler, Simone Oberhaensli, Victoria Widrig, Stefan Lindner, Jonatan Isaksson, Thomas Wicker, Dazhao Yu and Beat Keller

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10274-1

May 23, 2019

Whole-Genome Sequencing of the Wild Barley Diversity Collection: A Resource for Identifying and Exploiting Genetic Variation for Cultivated Barley Improvement

Ahmad H. Sallam, Yu Guo, Murukarthick Jayakodi, Axel Himmelbach, Anne Fiebig, Jamie Simmons, Gerit Bethke, Yoonjung Lee, Rebecca Spanner, Ana Badea, Michael Baum, François Belzile, Roi Ben-David, Robert Brueggeman, Austin Case, Luigi Cattivelli, Michael Davis, Christoph Dockter, Jaroslav Doležel, Antonin Dreiseitl, Ryan Gavin, Lior Glick, Stephan Greiner, Ruth Hamilton, Patrick M. Hayes, Scott Heisel, Cynthia Henson, Benjamin Kilian, Takao Komatsuda, Chengdao Li, Cheng Liu, Ramamurthy Mahalingam, Maren Maruschewski, Oadi Matny, Andreas Maurer, Klaus F. X. Mayer, Itay Mayrose, Peter Morrell, Matthew Moscou, Gary J. Muehlbauer, Youko Oono, Frank Ordon, Hakan Özkan, Ales Pecinka, Dragan Perovic, Klaus Pillen, Mohammad Pourkheirandish, Joanne Russell, Jan Šafář, Silvio Salvi, Miguel Sanchez-Garcia, Kazuhiro Sato, Thomas Schmutzer, Uwe Scholz, Jeness Scott, Gurcharn Singh Brar, Kevin P. Smith, Mark E. Sorrells, Manuel Spannagl, Nils Stein, Alessandro Tondelli, Roberto Tuberosa, James Tucker, Thomas Turkington, Jan Valkoun, Ramesh Pal Singh Verma, Marcus A. Vinje, Maria von Korff Schmising, Jason G. Walling, Robbie Waugh, Roger P. Wise, Brande B. H. Wulff, Shengming Yang, Guoping Zhang, Martin Mascher, Brian J. Steffenson

https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.18.624148

November 20, 2024

Dissection of a rapidly evolving wheat resistance gene cluster by long-read genome sequencing accelerated the cloning of Pm69

Yinghui Li, Zhen-Zhen Wei, Hanan Sela, Liubov Govta, Valentyna Klymiuk, Rajib Roychowdhury, Harmeet Singh Chawla, Jennifer Ens, Krystalee Wiebe, Valeria Bocharova, Roi Ben-David, Prerna B. Pawar, Yuqi Zhang, Samidha Jaiwar, István Molnár, Jaroslav Doležel, Gitta Coaker, Curtis J. Pozniak, Tzion Fahima

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xplc.2023.100646

January 8, 2024