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Vitaly Portnoy, Ph.D.  (Researcher)
Newe Ya'arResearch teams-Newe Yaar
Research Interests / Job description  
Telephone Tel: 04-9539553
Cellphone Cell: 050-6220033
Fax Fax: 04-9836936
Email Email: portnoyv@volcani.agri.gov.il
Office location Office location: Newe Ya'ar, Newe Yaar Research Center
Newe-Yaar Research Center
Agricultural Research Organization
P.O.Box 1021, Ramat Yishay, 30095 ISRAEL

Researcher

Research Interests / Job description
1.Utilization of genomic approaches for the identification of genes that are involved in key metabolic changes during fruit ripening.
2. Development and characterization of new molecular markers in plants and utilizations markers for genetic mapping.

Brotman, Y., Kovalski, I., Dogimont, C., Pitrat, M., Portnoy, V., Katzir N.
and Perl-Treves, R. (2005). Molecular markers linked to papaya ring
spot virus resistance and Fusarium race-2 resistance in melon.
Theor. Appl. Genet. 110: 337-345.
Gottlieb, Y., Ghanim, M., Belausov, E., Gerling, D., Portnoy, V., Chiel,
E., Tzuri, G.,Horowitz R., Kontsedalov, S., Steinberg, S., Mozes-Daube,
N Gal, S., Katzir N. and Zchori-Fein E., (2006). Identification and
localization of Rickettsia in Bemisia tabaci.
Appl. Env. Microbiol. 72: 3646-3652.
Ibdah, M., Azulay, Y., Portnoy, V., Wasserman, B., Bar, E., Meir, A.,
Burger, Y., Hirschberg, J., Schaffer, A.A., Katzir, N., Tadmor, Y., and
Lewinsohn, E. (2006) Functional characterization of CmCCD1,
a carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase from melon.
Phytochemistry 67:1579-89.
Levi, A., Davis, A., Hernandez, A., Wechter, P., Thimmapuram, J.,
Trebitsh. T., Tadmor, Y., Katzir, N., Portnoy, V. and King, S. (2006).
Genes expressed during the development and ripening of watermelon fruit.
Plant Cell Rep. 25: 1233-1245.
Dai, N., Petreikov, M., Portnoy, V., Katzir, N., Pharr, D. M. and
Schaffer A. A. (2006). Cloning and expression analysis of a
udpgalactose/glucose pyrophosphorylase from melon fruit provides
evidence for the major metabolic pathway of galactose metabolism
in raffinose oligosaccharide metabolizing plants.
Plant Physiol. 142: 294-304.
Lotan-Pompan, M., Cohen, R., Yarden, O., Portnoy V., Burger, Y.
and Katzir N. (2007). Trifluralin herbicide-induced resistance of melon
to fusarium wilt involves expression of stress- and defence-related genes.
Plant Mol. Pathol. 8: 9-22.
Matalon,Y., Katzir, N., Gottlieb, Y., Portnoy, V.,Zchori-Fein, E. (2007).
Cardinium in Plagiomerus diaspidis (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae).
J. of Invertebrate Pathol. 96:106-108
Grumet R., Katzir N., Little, H. A., Portnoy, V., Burger, J. (2007)
New insights into reproductive development in melon (Cucumis melo L.).
International Journal of Plant Developmental Biology 1: 253-264 (Invited review)Wechter WP, Levi A, Harris KR, Davis AR, Fei Z, Katzir N, Giovannoni JJ,
Salman-Minkov A, Hernandez A, Thimmapuram J, Tadmor Y, Portnoy V
and Trebitsh T. (2008). Gene expression in developing watermelon fruit.
BMC Genomics 9:275
Portnoy V, Benyamini Y, Bar E, Harel-Beja R, Gepstein S, Giovannoni JJ,
Schaffer AA, Burger Y, Tadmor Y, Lewinsohn E. and Katzir N, (2008).
The molecular and biochemical basis for varietal variation in sesquiterpene
content in melon (Cucumis melo L.) rinds.
Plant Mol.Biol. 66:647-661
Gonda I, Bar E, Portnoy V, Lev S, Burger J, Schaffer AA, Tadmor Y,
Gepstein S, Giovannoni JJ, Katzir N and Lewinsohn E. (2010).
Branched-chain and aromatic amino acid catabolism into aroma
volatiles in Cucumis melo L. fruit.
J. of Exp. Botany 61: 1111-1123.
Harel-Beja R, Tzuri G, Portnoy V, Lotan-Pompan M, Lev S,
Cohen S, Dai N, Yeselson L, Meir A, Libhaber SE, Avisar E, Melame T,
van Koert P, Verbakel H, Hofstede R, Volpin H, Oliver M, Fougedoire A,
Stalh C, Fauve J, Copes B, Fei Z, Giovannoni J, Ori N, Lewinsohn E,
Sherman A, Burger Y, Tadmor Y, Schaffer AA, Katzir N (2010).
A genetic map of melon highly enriched with fruit quality QTLs
and EST markers, including sugar and carotenoid metabolism gene.
Theor Appl Genet. DOI 10.1007-s00122-010-1327-4
Ophir R, Eshed R, Harel-Beja R, Tzuri G, Portnoy V, Burger Y, Uliel S,
Katzir N. and Sherman A. (2010) High throughput marker discovery in melon
using a self design oligo microarray.
BMC Genomics 11:269.
Tadmor, Y., Burger, Y., Yaakov, I., Feder, A., Libhaber, SE., Portnoy, V.,
Meir, A., Tzuri, G., Sa'ar, U., Rogachev, I., Aharoni, A., Abeliovich, H.,
Schaffer, AA., Lewinsohn, E., and Katzir N (2010). Genetics of flavonoid,
carotenoid, and chlorophyll pigments in melon fruit rinds.
J. Agric. Food Chem. 58:10722-10728.
Portnoy, V., Diber, A., Pollock, S., Forer, R., Lev, S., Tzuri, G., Harel-Beja, R.,
Portnoy, VH., Lewinsohn, E., Tadmor, Y., Burger, J., Schaffer, AA
and Katzir, N. (2011). Use of non-normalized, nonamplified cDNA for 454-based RNA sequencing of fleshy melon fruit.
The Plant Genome 4: 36-46
Dai, N., Cohen, S., Portnoy, V., Tzuri, G., Beja, R., Pompan-Lotan, M., Carmi, N.,
Zhang, G., Diber, A., Pollock, S., Karchi, H., Yeselson, L., Petreikov, M., Shen, S.,
Sahar, U., Hovav, R., Lewinsohn, E., Tadmor, Y., Granot, D., Ophir, R., Sherman,
A., Fei, Z., Giovannoni, J., Burger, Y., Katzir, N. and Schaffer, AA. (2011).
Metabolism of soluble sugars in developing melon fruit: A global transcriptional view of the metabolic transition to sucrose accumulation.
Plant Mol. Biol. 76: 1-18
Clepet C, Joobeur T, Zheng Y, Jublot D, Huang M, Truniger V, Boualem A,
Hernandez-Gonzalez ME, Dolcet -Sanjuan R, Portnoy V, Creus AM,
Caño-Delgado A, Katzir N, Giovannoni JJ, Bendahmane A, Aranda MA,
Garcia-Mas J, and Fei Z. (2011). Analysis of expressed sequence tags generated from full-length enriched cDNA libraries of melon.
BMC Genomics 12:252doi:10.1186/1471-2164-12-252

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