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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

  1. Levy M, Rachmilevitch S, Abel S. (2005) Transient, Agrobacterium-mediated gene expression in the Arabidopsis root system for subcellular localization studies. Plant Molecular Biology Reports 23(2):174-179.

  2. Levy M, Wang Q, Kaspi R, Parrella MP, Abel S. (2005) IQD1, a novel nuclear calmodulin-binding protein modulates glucosinolates accumulation and plant defense responses in Arabidopsis. Plant Journal 43(1):79-96.

  3. Abel S, Savchenko T, Levy M. (2005) Genome-wide comparative analysis of the IQD gene families in Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa. BMC Evolutionary Biology 5:72.

  4. Levy M, Erental A, Yarden O. (2007) Efficient gene replacements and direct hyphal transformation in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Molecular Plant Pathology 5(9):719-725.

  5. Bezawork-Geleta A, Kolton M, Maayan I, Belausov E, Levy M, Mett A, Gidoni D, Shaya F, Ostersetzer-Biran O. (2009) AtnMat2, a nuclear-encoded maturase required for splicing of group-II introns in Arabidopsis mitochondria. RNA 15 (12): 2299-2311.

  6. Ish-shalom S , Gafni A, Lichter A and . (2011) Transformation of by direct hyphal blasting or by wound-mediated transformation of sclerotia. BMC Microbiology. 11(1):266.

  7. Yaffe H, Buxdorf K, Ein-Gedi S, Shapira I, Moyal-Ben-Zvi M, Fridman E, Moshelion M and . (2012) LogSpin: a simple, economical and fast method for RNA isolation from infected or healthy plants and other eukaryotic tissues. BMC Research Notes 5:45.

  8. Brumin M, and Ghanim M. (2012) Transovarial vertical transmission and organ-specific infection of in the whitefly Applied and Envioronmental Microbiology 78(16):5565-74.

  9. Laluk K, Prasad KV, Savchenko T, Celesnik H, Dehesh K, , Mitchell-Olds T, Reddy AS. (2012) The calmodulin-binding transcription factor SIGNAL RESPONSIVE1 is a novel regulator of glucosinolate metabolism and herbivory tolerance in Arabidopsis. Plant and Cell Physiology 53(12):2008-15. 

  10. Drori R, Sharon A, Goldberg D, Rabinovitz O, Levy M and Degani O. (2013) Molecular diagnosis for Harpophora maydis, the cause of maize late wilt disease in Israel. Phytopathologia Mediterranea  52(1):16-29 

  11. Hershkovitz V, Sela N, Taha-Salaime L,  Liu J , Rafael G, Kessler C, Aly R, Levy M, Wisniewski MC, and Droby SPI (2013). De-novo assembly and characterization of the transcriptome of Metschnikowia fructicola reveals differences in gene expression following interaction with Penicillium digitatum and grapefruit peel. BMC Genomics 14:168.

  12. Buxdorf K, Rahat I, Gafni A, and Levy M. (2013) The epiphytic fungus Pseudozyma aphidis induces jasmonic acid- and salicylic acid/nonexpressor of PR1-Independent local and systemic resistance. Plant Physiology 161(4):2014-2022.

  13. Sela D, Buxdorf K, Jianxin S,  Feldmesser E, Schreiber L, Aharoni A, Levy M (2013) Overexpression of AtSHN1/WIN1 provokes unique defense responses. PLoS One 8:e70146.

  14. Buxdorf K, Yaffe H, Barda O, Levy M (2013) The effects of glucosinolates and their breakdown products on necrotrophic fungi. PLoS One 8:e70771.

  15. Buxdorf K, Rahat I, Levy M (2013) Pseudozyma aphidis induces ethylen-independent resistance in plants. Plant Signaling and Behavior 8:11, e26273. 

  16. Buxdorf K, Rubinski G, Barda O, Burdman S, Aharoni A, Levy M (2014) The transcription factor SlSHINE3 modulates defense responses in tomato plants. Plant Molecular Biology 84:37-47.

  17. Turgeman T, Kakongi N, Schneider A, Vinokur Y, Teper-Bamnolker P, Carmeli S, Levy M, Skory CD, Lichter A, Eshel D (2014) Induction of Rhizopus oryzae germination under starvation using host metabolites increases spore susceptibility to heat stress. Phytopathology 104:240-247.

  18. Barda O, Shalev O, Alster S, Buxdorf K, Gafni A and Levy M (2015) Pseudozyma aphidis induces salicylic acid-independent resistance to Clavibacter michiganensis in tomato plants. Plant Disease 99(5): 621-626.

  19. Gafni A, Calderone C. E, Haris R, Dafa-Berger A, Buxdorf K,   Levy M (2015) . Biological control of the cucurbit powdery mildew pathogen Podosphaera xanthii by means of the epiphytic fungus Pseudozyma aphidis and parasitism as a mode of action. Frontiers in Plant Science 6:132

  20. Ogran A, Landau N, Hanin N, Cohen Y, Levy M, Gafni Y, Barazani O (2016) Intra-specific variation in defense against a generalist lepidopteran herbivore in populations of Eruca sativa (Mill.) Ecology and Evolution 6(1): 363-374

  21. Polturak G, Grossman N, Vela-Corcia D, Dong Y, Nudel A, Pliner M, Levy M, Rogachev I and Aharoni A (2017). Engineered gray mold resistance, antioxidant capacity and pigmentation in betalain-producing crops and ornamentals. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS) 114(34):9062-9067.

  22. E. Calderón C, Rotem N, Harris R, Vela-Corcía D and Levy M (2018).  Pseudozyma aphidis activates reactive oxygen species production, programmed cell death and morphological alterations in the necrotrophic fungus Botrytis cinerea. Molecular Plant Pathology. 20 (4), 562–574.

  23. Vela-Corcia D, Aditya Srivastava D, Dafa-Berger A, Rotem N, Barda O, Levy M (2019).  MFS transporter from Botrytis cinerea provides tolerance to glucosinolate-breakdown products and is required for pathogenicity. Nature Communications. 10:2886 (DOI 10.1038/s41467-019-10860-3).

  24. Srivastava AD, Harris R, Breuer G and Levy M (2021). Secretion-based modes of action of biocontrol agents with a focus on Pseudozyma aphidis. Plants. 10(2), 210.

  25. Alster S, Dafa-Berger A, Gafni A and Levy M (2022). Pseudozyma aphidis suppresses microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs)-triggered callose deposition and can penetrate leaf tissue. Microbiology Spectrum. 10, e0263821, DOI https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.02638-21.  

  26. Shoam I, Claudia E. Calderon C and Levy M (2022) Pseudozyma aphidis enhances cucumber and tomato plant growth and yields. Agronomy. 12 (383), 1-10.  

  27. Barda O and Levy M (2022) IQD1 involvement in hormonal signaling and general defense responses against Botrytis cinerea. Frontiers in Plant Sciences. 13, doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.845140.

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