Current research projects
1. Plants in urban landscapes: Improvement of the urban environment and of the well-being of city dwellers.
2. Sustainable agriculture research agenda in the Insittute of Plant Sciences.
Selected list of publications
Steinitz, B., Lilien-Kipnis, H. (1989). Control of precocious gladiolus corm and cormel formation in tissue culture. J. Plant Physiol. 135: 495-500. link
Ben-Hod, G., Kigel J., Steinitz B. (1989). Photothermal effects on corm and flower development in Anemone coronaria. Scientia Hortic. 40: 247-258. link
Khurana, J.P., Ren Z., Steinitz B., Parks B., Best T.R., Poff K.L. (1989). Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana with decreased amplitude in their phototropic response. Plant Physiol. 91: 685-689. link
Konjevic, R., Steinitz, B., Poff, K.L. (1989). Dependence of the phototropic response of Arabidopsis thaliana on fluence rate and wavelength. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86: 9876-9880. link
Steinitz, B., Cohen, A., Goldberg, Z., Kochba, M. (1991). Precocious gladiolus corm formation in liquid shake cultures. Plant Cell, Tiss. Org. Cult. 26: 63-70. link
Steinitz, B., Hagiladi, A., Anav, D. (1992). Thigmomorphogenesis and its interaction with gravity in climbing plants of Epipremnium aureum. J. Plant Physiol. 140: 571-574. link link2
Steinitz, B., Navon A., Berlinger M.J., Klein M. (1993). Expression of insect resistance in in vitro-derived callus tissue infested with Lepidopteran larvae. J. Plant Physiol. 142: 480-484. link
Steinitz, B. (1997). An exercise in the formation of potato microtubers in tissue culture. J. Biol. Educ. 31: 119-124. link
Steinitz, B., Navon A., Berlinger, M.J., Mazor, M. (1997). Carbohydrates supplements to the callus culture medium modify the growth of potato tuber moth larvae feeding on Lycopersicon chmielewskii callus. Physiol. Plantarum 101:556-562. link
Steinitz, B. (1999). Sugar alcohols display nonosmotic roles in regulating morphogenesis and metabolism in plants that do not produce polyols as primary photosynthetic products. J. Plant Physiol. 155: 1-8. link link2
Steinitz, B., Wolf, D., Matzevitch-Josef, T. and Zelcer, A. (1999). Regeneration in vitro and genetic transformation of pepper (Capsicum spp.): the current state of the art. Capsicum and Eggplant Newsletter 18: 9-15. link
Wolf, D., Matzevitch, T., Steinitz, B., Zelcer, A. (2001). Why is it difficult to obtain transgenic pepper plants? Acta Horticulturea 560: 229-233. link
Steinitz, B., Gafni, Y., Cohen, Y., Perea, J.D., Tabib, Y., Levski, S., Navon, A. (2002). Insecticidal activity of a cry1A(c) transgene in callus derived from regeneration-recalcitrant cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol.-Plant 38: 247 - 251. link
Steintiz, B., Küsek, M., Tabib, Y., Paran, I., Zelcer, A. (2003). Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) regenerants obtained by direct somatic embryogenesis fail to develop a shoot. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol.-Plant 39: 296-303. link
Gaba, V., Shavit, D., Steinitz, B., Kathiravan, K. (2004) Photography as a tool of research and documentation in plant tissue culture. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol.-Plant 40: 536-541. link
Steinitz, B., Amitay, A., Gaba, V., Tabib, Y., Keller, M., Levin I. (2006) A simple plant regeneration-ability assay in a range of Lycopersicon species. Plant Cell Tiss. Organ Cult. 84: 269-278. link
Kathiravan, K., Vengedesan, G., Singer S., Steinitz, B., Paris H. S., Gaba V. (2006) Adventitious regeneration in vitro occurs across a wide spectrum of squash (Cucurbita pepo) genotypes. Plant Cell Tiss. Organ Cult. 85: 285-295. link
Steinitz, B., Tabib Y., Gaba V., Gefen, T., Vaknin, Y. (2009) Vegetative micro-cloning to sustain biodiversity of threatened Moringa species. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol.-Plant 45: 65-71. link
Aly, R., Cholakh, H., Joel, D.M., Leibman, D., Steinitz, B., Zelcer, A., Naglis, A., Yarden, O., Gal-On, A. (2009) Gene Silencing of mannose 6-phosphate reductase in the parasitic weed Orobanche aegyptiaca through the production of homologous dsRNA sequences in the host plant. Plant Biotechnol. J. 7: 487-498. link
Amutha, S., Kathiravan, K., Singer,S., Jashi, L., Shomer, I., Steinitz, B., Gaba, V. (2009) Adventitious shoot formation in decapitated dicotyledonous seedlings starts with regeneration of abnormal leaves from cells not located in a shoot apical meristem. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol.-Plant 45: 758-768 link
Steinitz, B., Barr, N., Tabib, Y., Vaknin, Y., Bernstein, N. (2010) Control of in vitro rooting and plant development in Corymbia maculata by silver nitrate, silver thiosulfate and thiosulfate ion. Plant Cell Rep. 29: 1315-1323. link
Steinitz, B., Bilavendran, A. D. (2011) Thiosulfate stimulates growth and alleviates silver and copper toxicity in tomato root cultures. Plant Cell Tissue Organ Cult. 107: 355-363. link PDF
For more information see at Google Scholar, author Benjamin Steinitz link