Dr. Rivka Hadas

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Tel: +972-3-9683896

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Israel Plant Gene Bank

ARO Volcani Center

POB 6, Bet Dagan 50250, ISRAEL

1974 - 1977 B.Sc. The HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture Rehovot

1984 - 1986 M.Sc. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture Rehovot (Characterization of Azospirillum brasilense effects on tomato and other vegetables).

1988 - 1992 Ph.D. The HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem, ARO, the VolcaniCenter, Department of Virology

(Isolation, characterization and cloning of citrus viroids from graft transmissible citrus dwarfing complexes in Israel. Agroinfection of plants with cloned cDNA of citrus exocortis viroid)

1992 - 1994 Postdoc. The ARO, the VolcaniCenter

(Molecular markers for the invertase gene and sucrose accumulation in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.))

1995 - 2004 Research scientist at the Official Seed Testing Laboratory, ARO, the VolcaniCenter. (Bacterial and virus diseases supervisor, and Quality Assurance Manager)

2004 to date, Research scientist at the VolcaniCenter, ARO. Head of the Israel Plant Gene Bank.

Selected publications

  • Hadas, R., Schaffer, A., Miron, D., Fogelman, M. and Granot, D. (1995). PCR generated molecular markers for the invertase gene and sucrose accumulation in tomato. Theor. and Appl. Genet. 90: 1142-1148.
  • Hadas, R. (2000).Tobamovirus in pepper (Capsicum annuum) seeds. In: Kees van Ettekoven ed. Seed health testing methods reference manual, ISHI-VEGETABLE. Naktuinnbouw, The Netherlands. P: 56-57 Electronic version at ISF:
  • Hadas, R. (2000). Tobamovirus in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.)seeds.

In: Kees van Ettekoven ed. Seed health testing methods reference manual, ISHI-VEGETABLE. Naktuinnbouw, The Netherlands P:77-79. Electronic version at ISF:

  • Hadas, R., Kritzman, G., Gefen, T. and Manulis, S. (2001).Detection, Quantification and Characterization of Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora contaminating pepper seeds. Plant Pathology 50: 117-123.
  • Kleitman, F., Ajtkhozhina, N., Dzaimurzina, A., Hadas, R., Barash, I. and Manulis, S. (2003). Development of a PCR-detection method for Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris in crucifer seeds.(Poster) 8th International Congress of Plant Pathology, volume 2, p. 322
  • Hadas, R., Pearlsman, M., Gefen, T., Lachman, O., Hadar, E. Sharabany, G. andAntignus, Y. (2004). An Indexing System for the Tobamovirus (Tomato Mosaic Virus) in Commercial Tomato Seed Lots. Phytoparasitica 32: (4) 421-424.
  • Dai, N., Cohen, S., Moi, M., Hadas, R., Petreikov, M., Shen, S., Granot, D. and Schaffer, A. (2004).Comparison of promoter regions of vacuolar invertase from green-fruited, sucrose-accumulating and red-fruited, hexose-accumulating Lycopersicon species.

1st Solanaceae genome Workshop Wageningen, The Netherlands.

  • Hadas, R., Pearlsman, M., Gefen, T., Lachman, O. andAntignus, Y. (2004). Detection System for Tomato Mosaic Tobamovirus (ToMV) in Tomato Seed Lots. Field, garden and farmstead 12: 32-36. (Hebrew)
  • Hadas, R., Kritzman, G., Klietman, F., Gefen, T. and Manulis, S. (2005). Comparison of extraction procedures and determination of the detection threshold for Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis in tomato seeds. Plant Pathology : 54: 643-649.
  • Hadas, R. and Sirota, A. (2006). An overview of the goals and functions of The Israeli Gene Bank for Agricultural Crops. Israel Journal of Plant Science 54: 149-156.
  • Vaknin, Y., Hadas, R., Schafferman, D., Murkhovsky, L. and Bashan, N. (2007). The potential of milk thistle (Silybum marianum L.), an Israeli native, as a source of edible sprouts rich in antioxidants', International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, 1 – 8 DOI:10.1080/09637480701554095,
  • Barazani, O., Perevolotsky, A., and Hadas, R. (2008). A problem of the rich: Prioritizing local plant genetic resources for ex-situ conservation in Israel. Biological Conservation 141: 596-600
  • Hadas, R., Sirota, A., Agami, M. and Horovitz, A. (2008). Managing passport data associated with seed collections from wild populations: increasing potential for conservation and use of crop wild relatives in Israel. In: Crop Wild Relative Conservation and Use. (Maxted, N., Ford-Lloyd, B.V., Kell, S.P., Iriondo, J., Dulloo, E. and Turok, J. eds.) pp. 513-520. CAB International, WallingfordUK.
  • Hadas, R., Kamenetsky, R. and Fragman-Sapir, O, (2010). Ex-situ conservation of Israel's native geophytes – source for development of new ornamental crops. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences (Accepted)
  • Moy, M., Dai, N., Cohen, S., Hadas, R., Granot, D., Petrikov, M., Yeselson, Y., Shen, S. and Schaffer, A. A. (2007).The Presence of a retrotransposon in the promoter region of the TIV gene encoding for soluble acid invertasedistinguishes between the sucrose and hexose accumulating species of Lycopersicon. Acta Hort. (ISHS) 745: 429-436
  • Hadas R. (2006). The National Israeli Gene Bank of the regional flora. High Yield 18: 38-39 (Hebrew).
  • Hadas R. (2007). Plant Noah's ark. Agro Mashov 221:32-34 (Hebrew).
  • Hadas, R., Perevolotsky, A., Scafferman, D., Singer, A., and Barazani, O. (2007). Conservation of Israel Ornamental and Forestry genetic resources. Flower world. July-August 35-39 (Hebrew).
  • Barkan, G., Hadas, R., Edelstein, M., Leibman, D. and Gal-On, A. (2007). Characterization of Cucurbita moschata and C. maxima Lines for Resistance to RNA Viruses Using Classical and Molecular Tools. Field, garden and farmstead (Sade Vayerek) 2: 8-12 (Hebrew)
  • Hadas, R., Sirota, A., Agami, M. and Horovitz, A. (2008). Managing passport data associated with seed collections from wild populations: increasing potential for conservation and use of crop wild relatives in Israel. In: Crop Wild Relative Conservation and Use. (Maxted, N., Ford-Lloyd, B.V., Kell, S.P., Iriondo, J., Dulloo, E. and Turok, J. eds.) pp. 513-520. CAB International, WallingfordUK.
  • Rogosa, E., Ali-Shtayeh, M. S., G’naim, L., Hadas, R., Solowey, E. and Jaradat, A. (2006). Participatory Breeding of Threatened Mideast Landraces as a strategy for Genetic Conservation and Regional Cooperation European Consortium for Organic Plant Breeding (ECO-PB) Workshop on Participatory Plant Breeding. 11-13 June, 2006 La Besse, South West France.
  • Hadas R. (2006). The National Israeli Gene Bank of the regional flora.'Yevul See' Magazine for Advanced Agriculture 18: 38-39, (Hebrew)
  • Hadas R. (2007).Plant Noah's ark. Agro Mashov 221:32-34, (Hebrew)
  • Hadas, R., Perevolotsky, A., Scafferman, D., Singer, A., and Barazani, O. (2007). Conservation of Israel Ornamental and Forestry genetic resources. Flower world. September-October 20-23, (Hebrew)
  • Edelstein, M., Hadas, R., Barkan, G. and Gal-On, A. (2007). Diversity within Cucurbita maxima and C. moschata for Resistance to RNA VirusesCucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 28-29: 77-78 (2005-2006)
  • Singer, A., Scafferman, D., Golan, S., Yadin, O., Hadad, S., Paz -Aviram, T. and Hadas, R. (2008). Israel Plant Gene Bank.'Yevul See' Magazine for Advanced Agriculture 35: 14-18, (Hebrew)
  • Barkan, G., Hadas, R., Edelstein, M., Leibman, D. and Gal-On, A. (2006). Characterization of Cucurbita moschata and C. maxima Lines for Resistance to RNA Viruses Using Classical and Molecular Tools. The 27th Meeting of the Israeli Phytopathological Society (abs.)
  • Hadas, R., Agami, M. and Horovitz, A. (2005). Managing passport data associated with seed collections from wild populations: increasing potential for conservation and use of CWR in Israel. 1st International Conference on Crop Wild Relatives Conservation and Use, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy (abs.)
  • Hadas, R., Shmueli, O., Luhua, S., Sirota, A., Kroitor, T., Galili, G. and Dudai, N. (2005). Genetic variation in and between wild populations of Origanum syriacum in Israel. 1st International Conference on Crop Wild Relatives Conservation and Use, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy (abs.)
  • Sirota, A., Volpin, H. Madi, A., & Hadas, R. (2007). The IsraeliGeneBankDocumentationCenter – A Novel Infrastructure for Knowledge Discovery. 5th European Conference on Com(Hebrew).putational Biology January 21-24, Eilat Israel(abs.).
  • Hadas, R., (2007). The Israel National Plant Gene Bank. Restoring Ancient wheat, WS, November 29, Bet-Dagan, Israel. (abs.).
  • Hadas, R., Barazani, O., Singer, A. and Perevolotsky, A. (2009).The native flora of Israel - Conservation and management. A special issue of the second DIVERSITAS Newsletter dedicated to the Cape Town Open Science Conference, “Biodiversity and Society: Understanding connections, Adapting to change” Cape Town, S. Africa, 13-16 Oct. 2009. p:206 (abs.).
  • Singer, A., Walczak, M., Ur, Y., Golan, S. and Hadas, R. (2009). Conservation of rare-endangered and endemic species in Israel. A special issue of the second DIVERSITAS Newsletter dedicated to the Cape Town Open Science Conference, “Biodiversity and Society: Understanding connections, Adapting to change” Cape Town, S. Africa, 13-16 October 2009. p.: 257 (abs.).
  • Barazani, O., Hadas, R., Perevolotsky, A. (2009) Conservation and research efforts at the Israel Plant Gene-Bank. Plant Conservation for the Next Decade: A Celebration of Kew's 250th Anniversary. London, GB. (abs.).