Title of thesis: Mechanism of herbicide resistance induced by mutagenesis of the fern Pteris vitatta
Supervision by: Dr. A. Zilberstein
1991-1996
Ph.D. in Genetics at the Hebrew University, Faculty of Agriculture
Title of thesis: 1) Promoter analysis of a tomato fruit-specific gene and 2) expression of the bacterial rolB gene in transgenic plants under the control of this promoter in order to obtain parthenocarpic fruits
Supervision by: Dr. Y. Salts
1996-1998
Postdoctoral position at the Department of Molecular Developmental and Cellular Biology, Yale University with Dr. R. Breaker
Research subject: In vitro selection of self-cleaving DNA and rational design of a DNA enzyme
1998-1999
Postdoctoral position at the Department of Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, School of Medicine, Yale University with Dr. S. Wolin Research subject: RNA processing
1999-2000
Postdoctoral position at the Department of Vegetable Crops, ARO with Dr. A. Schaffer
Research subject: Molecular biology of sugar metabolism of fruits
Research Interests
Classical breeding and genomic editing in citrus.
Development of new easy peeling mandarins, excellent in taste, seedless with an attractive internal and external color.
Extending the season to early and late.Development of grapefruit without furanocoumarins.
