Stanley Freeman Ph.D.
Senior Researcher
- Institute of Plant Protection
- Plant Pathology and Weed Research
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Biography
Dr. Stanley Freeman is a senior researcher of plant pathology at the ARO, Volcani Institute, Rishon LeZion, Israel, working primarily on fungal crop diseases since 1993. He obtained his Ph.D in plant pathology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel in 1991. His expertise covers molecular plant-pathogen interactions of Fusarium, Colletotrichum and other fungal species. He has been working on mango malformation disease for the past 30 years as well as other mango related pathogens. He works on strawberry diseases, Fusarium TR4 of banana, diseases of Medical cannabis, Botryosphaeria of avocado and mango, and Ambrosia beetle/fungal interactions. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles, 30 articles in conference proceedings, 15 book chapters, and edited two books. He has supervised over 30 MSc., PhD. students, as well as Post-doctorate fellows. He is the Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal ‘Phytoparasitica’, and served as the President of the Israeli Phytopathological Society from 2013-17.
Research Interests
Expertise covers
Foliar and soilborne pathogens of vegetable and fruit crops.
Biological and chemical control.
Molecular biology techniques for diagnostics and studying host pathogen interactions of: Fusarium spp. of cucurbits and mango, and Colletotrichum spp. of strawberry, anemone, Limonium, avocado and almond.
Epidemiology and control of mango malformation disease caused by Fusarium mangiferae.
Epidemiology and control of Colletotrichum acutatum, C. gloeosporioides, Macrophomina, Rhizoctonia, Fusarium and Phytophthora in strawberry
Ambrosia beetle Euwallacea/Fusarium interactions affecting avocado and other crops
Ambrosia beetle Xylosandrus/symbiotic fungal interactions of fruit and ornamental trees
Epidemiology of Fusarium TR4 of banana
Botryosphaeria affecting avocado and other fruit trees
Forest Pathology: Fungal pathogens of Pine, Cyprus and Carob trees
Medical cannabis: Diseases and means of management
Research Areas
- Plant Pathology dealing with fungal plant pathogens