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Avigad Vonshak is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on algal biology and biofuel production, marine and coastal ecosystems, biocrusts and microbial ecology, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, and aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics. These areas span interdisciplinary fields including energy, earth and planetary sciences, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, oceanography, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, molecular biology, and environmental chemistry.

Vonshak's frequent publication venues include the Journal of Applied Phycology, Physiologia Plantarum, Plant and Cell Physiology, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, and Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences.

Recent publications by or including Vonshak as an author demonstrate a focus on photosynthetic organisms, particularly microalgae and their responses to environmental conditions. Notable papers are:

  • Photosynthetic characterization of two Nannochloropsis species and its relevance to outdoor cultivation (2020, Journal of Applied Phycology)
  • Characterization of Nannochloropsis oceanica Rose Bengal Mutants Sheds Light on Acclimation Mechanisms to High Light When Grown in Low Temperature (2021, Plant and Cell Physiology)
  • Ascorbate-glutathione cycle alleviates low-temperature-induced oxidative stress for augmented growth of Nannochloropsis oceanica Rose Bengal mutants (2024, Physiologia Plantarum)
  • Spirulina in the 21st century: Five reasons for success in Europe (2025, Journal of Applied Phycology)
  • Modification in the ascorbate-glutathione cycle leads to a better acclimation to high light in the rose Bengal resistant mutant of Nannochloropsis oceanica (2024, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry)

Vonshak has collaborated frequently with researchers including Avraham Ben-Sheleg, Inna Khozin-Goldberg, Tsung-Yu Tsai, Tse-Min Lee, and Giuseppe Torzillo. These collaborations often intersect topics on microalgal acclimation mechanisms, oxidative stress responses, and photosynthetic performance under variable light and temperature conditions.

Best Publications

  • Radically rethinking agriculture for the 21st century.

    N. V. Fedoroff;D. S. Battisti;R. N. Beachy;P. J. M. Cooper

  • Spirulina Platensis Arthrospira : Physiology, Cell-Biology And Biotechnology

    Avigad Vonshak

  • Astaxanthin Accumulation in the Green Alga Haematococcus pluvialis1

    Sammy Boussiba;Avigad Vonshak

  • Lipid and fatty acid composition of the green oleaginous alga Parietochloris incisa, the richest plant source of arachidonic acid

    Chiara Bigogno;Inna Khozin-Goldberg;Sammy Boussiba;Avigad Vonshak

  • Effect of environmental conditions on fatty acid composition of the red alga Porphyridium cruentum: correlation to growth rate

    Zvi Cohen;Avigad Vonshak;Amos Richmond

  • Construction of shuttle vectors capable of conjugative transfer from Escherichia coli to nitrogen-fixing filamentous cyanobacteria

    C P Wolk;A Vonshak;P Kehoe;J Elhai

  • Laboratory Techniques for the Cultivation of Microalgae

    A. Vonshak

  • Extremophilic micro-algae and their potential contribution in biotechnology

    Prachi Varshney;Prachi Varshney;Paulina Mikulic;Avigad Vonshak;John Beardall

  • Mass production of the blue-green alga Spirulina: An overview

    Avigad Vonshak;Amos Richmond

  • Production of spirulina biomass: Effects of environmental factors and population density

    Avigad Vonshak;Aharon Abeliovich;Samy Boussiba;Shoshana Arad

  • A new tubular reactor for mass production of microalgae outdoors

    Amos Richmond;Sammy Boussiba;Avigad Vonshak;Reuven Kopel

  • Lipid and biomass production by the halotolerant microalga Nannochloropsis salina

    Sammy Boussiba;Avigad Vonshak;Zvi Cohen;Yael Avissar

  • Effects of salinity stress on photosystem II function in cyanobacterial Spirulina platensis cells.

    Congming Lu;Congming Lu;Avigad Vonshak

  • Scaling up microalgal cultures to commercial scale

    Michael A. Borowitzka;Avigad Vonshak

  • Enhancement and determination of astaxanthin accumulation in green alga Haematococcus pluvialis

    Sammy Boussiba;Lu Fan;Avigad Vonshak

  • Quantitative assessment of the major limitations on productivity ofSpirulina platensis in open raceways

    A. Richmond;E. Lichtenberg;B. Stahl;A. Vonshak

  • Spirulina: Growth, Physiology and Biochemistry

    Avigad Vonshak

  • Fatty acid composition of Spirulina strains grown under various environmental conditions

    Zvi Cohen;Avigad Vonshak;Amos Richmond

  • MIXOTROPHIC GROWTH MODIFIES THE RESPONSE OF SPIRULINA (ARTHROSPIRA) PLATENSIS (CYANOBACTERIA) CELLS TO LIGHT

    Avigad Vonshak;Suk Man Cheung;Feng Chen

  • Photoadaptation, photoinhibition and productivity in the blue‐green alga, Spirulina platensis grown outdoors

    A. Vonshak;R. Guy

Frequent Co-Authors

Sammy Boussiba
Sammy Boussiba Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Zvi Cohen
Zvi Cohen Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Sam Ben-Yaakov
Sam Ben-Yaakov Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
David S. Battisti
David S. Battisti University of Washington
Pamela C. Ronald
Pamela C. Ronald University of California, Davis
David B. Lobell
David B. Lobell Stanford University
Pedro A. Sanchez
Pedro A. Sanchez University of Florida
Nina V. Fedoroff
Nina V. Fedoroff Pennsylvania State University
Jian-Kang Zhu
Jian-Kang Zhu Southern University of Science and Technology
Congming Lu
Congming Lu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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