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Name: Yephet Ben-Yephet, Ph.D. (Retiree)
Units: Plant ProtectionPlant Pathology and Weed Research
Research Interests / Job description  
Tel:  03-9683437 03-9683863 03-9683530, 529
Cell: 050-6220530
Fax:03-9604180
Email:  yephet@volcani.agri.gov.il  yephet@int.gov.il
Address:Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, Plant Protection Institute, The Volcani Center ARO, Bet-Dagan 50250, Israel
Research Interests / Job description
Soil borne pathogens in vegetables, flowers and peanut in the following topics:
1. Chemical control of soil borne pathogens. Chemicals: metham sodium, methyl bromide, 1,3 dichloropropene (Telone=Condor) and benomyl.
Pathogens: Verticillium dahliae, Sclertoinia sclerotioum, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. dianthi, Pythium spp., nematodes and mites.
2. Ecology and epidemiology. Survival of sclerotia of S. sclerotiorum, Sclerotium rolfsii and microsclerotia of V. dahliae in semi-arid climate. Fusarium wilt in carnation (F. o. dianthi): distribution of the pathogen in soil, the relationship between inoculum and disease, and effect of cultivar resistance on wilt incidence and population densities on plants and in soil.
3. Developing greenhouse and field screening methods to evaluate resistant cultivars or lines. Effect of isolate source and daylight intensity on the pathogenicity of V. dahliae in watermelon and Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. dianthi

Education

B.Sc., 1964-1967, M.Sc. 1968-1970 and Ph.D. 1970-1974: Plant protection, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, Rehovot Israel.

1978-1979: Sabbatical leave in Biological and Chemical research institute, Rydalmere, Australia with Dr. G. Evans.

1985-1986: Sabbatical leave in University of California, Davis, Department of Plant Pathology with Prof. J. E. DeVay.

1996: Sabbatical leave in Cornell University, Ithaca NY, Department of Plant Pathology with Prof. E. B. Nelson.

Positions Held and Academic Status

1975- to date: Research Scientist at the Department of Plant Pathology of the Agriculture Research Organization (ARO) Volcani Center in Soilborne Diseases in Vegetables, Flowers and Peanuts.

1997-to-date Grade A+ in the scale of research scientists (equivalent to Full Professor).

1992-1996: Head, Plant Pathology Department, ARO.

1999- 2002: Member of the Academic Committee, ARO.

2002- 2008: Head, Plant Protection Institute.

Selected articles 

Ben-Yephet, Y. 1979. Isolate source and daylight intensity effects on the pathogenicity of Verticillium dahliae in watermelon seedlings. Phytopathology 69:1069-1072.

 

Ben-Yephet, Y.  Letham, D. and  Evans, G. 1981. Toxicity of 1,2-dibromoethane and 1,3-dichloropropene to microsclerotia of Verticillium dahliae. Pesticide Science 12:170-174.

 

Ben-Yephet, Y., Siti, E. and  Frank, Z. 1983. Control of Verticillium dahliae by metham-sodium in loessial soil and its effect on potato tuber yields. Plant Disease 67:1223-1225.

 

Ben-Yephet, Y. and Frank, Z. 1984. Optimization of the metham-sodium dose in controlling Verticillium dahliae in potato. Phytoparasitica 12:203-205.

 

Ben-Yephet, Y. and Frank, Z. 1985.   Effect of soil structure on penetration of metham-sodium and of temperature on concentrations required to kill soilborne pathogens. Phytopathology 75:403-406.

 

Ben-Yephet, Y., Melero, J. M. and DeVay, D. E. 1988. Interaction of soil solarization and metham-sodium in the destruction of  Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum. Crop Protection 7:327-331.

 

Ben-Yephet, Y., Siti, E. and Genizi A. 1993. Sclerotial survival and apothecial production by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum following outbreaks of lettuce drop. Phytopathology 83:509-513.

 

Ben-Yephet, Y., Reuven, M., Szmulewich, Y. and Mor, Y. 1994. Effect of methyl bromide on the control of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. dianthi propagules in carnation greenhouse soil and on inoculum increase after one growth cycle of carnation. Crop Protection 13:357-361.

 

Ben-Yephet, Y., Reuven, M., Zviebil, A. and Shtienberg, D. 1996. Effects of initial inoculum and cultivar resistance on incidence of Fusarium wilt and population densities of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. dianthi on carnation and in soil. Phyopathology 86:751-756.

 

Ben-Yephet, Y., Reuven, M., Zviebil, A. and Shtienberg, D. 1996. Effects of initial inoculum and cultivar resistance on incidence of Fusarium wilt and population densities of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. dianthi on carnation and in soil. Phyopathology 86:751-756.

 

Ben-Yephet, Y. and Shtienberg, D. 1997. Effects of the host, the pathogen, the environment and their interactions, on Fusarium wilt in carnation. Phytoparasitica 25:207-216.

 

Ben-Yephet, Y. and Shtienberg, D. 1997. Effects of the host, the pathogen, the environment and their interactions, on Fusarium wilt in carnation. Phytoparasitica 25:207-216.

 

Ben-Yephet, Y. and Nelson, E.B. 1999. Differential suppression of damping-off caused by Pythium aphanidermatum, P. irreulare, and P. myriotylum in composts at different temperatures. Plant Disease 83:356-360.

 

Reuven, M., Zveibil, A., Szmulewich, Y., Ben-Yephet, Y., Gamliel,

A. and Mor, Y. 2000. Fusarium control in carnations using reduced dosages of Methyl bromide and metham-sodium. Acta Horticulture 532: 205-211.

 

Reuven, M, Szmulewich, Y. Kolesnik, I. Gamliel A. Zilberg V. Mor M. Cahlon Y. and Ben-Yephet Y. 2005. Methyl bromide alternatives for controlling Fusarium wilt and root knot nematodes in carnations. Acta Horticulture 698: 99-105.

 

Ben-Yephet, Y. Tsror L. Reuven, M. Gips A. Bar Z. Einstein A. Turjeman Y. and Fine P. 2005. Effect of Ecosoil and NH3 in controlling soil borne pathogens. Acta Horticulture 698: 115-119.

 

Ben-Yephet, Y. Reuven, M. Zeviebil A., Szmulewich, Y., Laviovits I., Markovits, T., Soriano, S., and Bar-Yosef, B. 2006. Effect of nutrition on deformation disease in Gypsophila paniculata mother plants. Phytopathology 96:771-776.

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