Students Michal Sharon Ayelet Shavit Ravid Levi Adi Atzmon Technician Evgenya Prudovski

The Biological Control of Plant Pathogens and Insect Pest Laboratory

המעבדה להדברה ביולוגית של מחלות צמחים ומזיקים

Prof. Baruch Sneh פרופ' ברוך סנהBritannia, Room 117, Tel 03-640 9841 (lab.) 08-941-0280 (home)

E-Mail snehba@post.tau.ac.ilThe activities in this laboratory include: 1) Develop-ment of biotechnological preparations for protection of a variety of crop plants against several important pathogens; a. Rhizoctonia diseases with non-pathoge-nic isolates of Rhizoctonia, b. Botrytis rots of straw-berries with Pseudomonas and Gliocladium, c. Fire blight disease of pears with nonpathogenic bacteria, d. Infection of wine grapes with Botrytis for produc-tion of Botrytis dessert wine. 2) Biocontrol of Insects: a. Insect-resistant transgenic plants expressing Bt genes and binding studies of Cry proteins to membra-ne receptors (collaboration with Prof. A. Zilberstein), b. Integrated Pest Management of the African Armyworm.Sneh, B. 2001 Biocontrol with non-pathogenic isolates of fungal pathogens. Pages 1-29 in: D.D.-S. Dean and J.W. Huang (Eds.). Biological Control of Plant Diseases of the New Century - Mode of Action and Application Technology. Chinaart Co. Ltd. Taichung, Taiwan.Tsror, L.,Barak, R. and Sneh, B 2001. Biological control of Black scurf on potato under organic management. Crop Prot. 20:145-150.

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Students

Michal SharonAyelet ShavitRavid LeviAdi Atzmon

TechnicianEvgenya Prudovski