• Disease management and control.
• Disease-free plant propagation material.
• Physiology of diseased plants, induced resistance and host-pathogen interactions.
• Weed research.
• Detection and Identification of Plant Viruses.
• Production of virus-free propagation material.
• Virus transmission and epidemiology.
• Control measures.
• Breeding for virus resistance.
• Cross protection.
• Development of transformation and regeneration system in tissue culture.
• Structure and function of viral genome.
• Use of viruses as expressing vectors of foreign genes.

מצוות המחלקה שיושבים במרכזי המחקר האזוריים:

• רוני כהן, .Ph.D, נווה יער
  
  
• לאה צרור, .Ph.D, גילת