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2019
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Tzion Fahima is affiliated with the University of Haifa in Israel and specializes in Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research predominantly focuses on Plant Science, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with additional work in Nutrition and Dietetics, as well as Agronomy and Crop Science.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to plant pathology and genetics, including:

  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Plant Pathogens and Resistance
  • Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases

Fahima has contributed to multiple papers focused on wheat resistance to diseases, particularly powdery mildew, as well as genetic resistance mechanisms:

  • "A membrane associated tandem kinase from wild emmer wheat confers broad-spectrum resistance to powdery mildew," 2024, Nature Communications
  • "Dissection of a rapidly evolving wheat resistance gene cluster by long-read genome sequencing accelerated the cloning of Pm69," 2023, Plant Communications
  • "Discovery of stripe rust resistance with incomplete dominance in wild emmer wheat using bulked segregant analysis sequencing," 2022, Communications Biology
  • "A CNL protein in wild emmer wheat confers powdery mildew resistance," 2020, New Phytologist
  • "Glycerol-Induced Powdery Mildew Resistance in Wheat by Regulating Plant Fatty Acid Metabolism, Plant Hormones Cross-Talk, and Pathogenesis-Related Genes," 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Fahima include:

  • Yinghui Li
  • Valentyna Klymiuk
  • Zhiyong Liu
  • Andrii Fatiukha
  • Liubov Govta

Fahima publishes regularly in several scientific journals, with notable frequency in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Genetics
  • Pathogens
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome

    Rudi Appels;Rudi Appels;Kellye Eversole;Nils Stein;Nils Stein

  • A NAC Gene Regulating Senescence Improves Grain Protein, Zinc, and Iron Content in Wheat

    Cristobal Uauy;Assaf Distelfeld;Tzion Fahima;Ann Blechl

  • Microsatellites: genomic distribution, putative functions and mutational mechanisms: a review.

    You-Chun Li;Abraham B. Korol;Tzion Fahima;Avigdor Beiles

  • Positional cloning of the wheat vernalization gene VRN1

    L. Yan;A. Loukoianov;G. Tranquilli;M. Helguera

  • Microsatellites Within Genes: Structure, Function, and Evolution

    You-Chun Li;Abraham B. Korol;Tzion Fahima;Eviatar Nevo

  • A kinase-START gene confers temperature-dependent resistance to wheat stripe rust

    Daolin Fu;Cristobal Uauy;Assaf Distelfeld;Ann Blechl

  • Wild emmer genome architecture and diversity elucidate wheat evolution and domestication

    Raz Avni;Moran Nave;Omer Barad;Kobi Baruch

  • Triticum dicoccoides: An important genetic resource for increasing zinc and iron concentration in modern cultivated wheat

    İsmail Çakmak;A. Torun;E. Millet;M. Feldman

  • Domestication quantitative trait loci in Triticum dicoccoides, the progenitor of wheat.

    Junhua Peng;Yefim Ronin;Tzion Fahima;Marion S. Röder

  • Cloning of the wheat Yr15 resistance gene sheds light on the plant tandem kinase-pseudokinase family

    Valentina Klymiuk;Elitsur Yaniv;Lin Huang;Lin Huang;Dina Raats;Dina Raats

  • Multiple QTL‐effects of wheat Gpc‐B1 locus on grain protein and micronutrient concentrations

    Assaf Distelfeld;Ismail Cakmak;Zvi Peleg;Zvi Peleg;Levent Ozturk

  • Quantitative trait loci conferring grain mineral nutrient concentrations in durum wheat × wild emmer wheat RIL population

    Zvi Peleg;İsmail Çakmak;Levent Öztürk;M. Atilla Yazıcı

  • High-temperature adult-plant (HTAP) stripe rust resistance gene Yr36 from Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides is closely linked to the grain protein content locus Gpc-B1.

    Cristobal Uauy;Juan Carlos Brevis;Xianming Chen;Imtiaz Khan

  • A high‐density, SNP‐based consensus map of tetraploid wheat as a bridge to integrate durum and bread wheat genomics and breeding

    Marco Maccaferri;Andrea Ricci;Silvio Salvi;Sara Giulia Milner

  • Grain zinc, iron and protein concentrations and zinc-efficiency in wild emmer wheat under contrasting irrigation regimes

    Zvi Peleg;Zvi Peleg;Yehoshua Saranga;Atilla Yazici;Tzion Fahima

  • Evolution of Wild Emmer and Wheat Improvement: Population Genetics, Genetic Resources, and Genome Organization of Wheat’s Progenitor, Triticum dicoccoides

    E. Nevo;A. B. Korol;A. Beiles;T. Fahima

  • RAPD polymorphism of wild emmer wheat populations, Triticum dicoccoides, in Israel

    T. Fahima;G. L. Sun;A. Beharav;T. Krugman

  • Frequent Gene Movement and Pseudogene Evolution Is Common to the Large and Complex Genomes of Wheat, Barley, and Their Relatives

    Thomas Wicker;Klaus F X Mayer;Heidrun Gundlach;Mihaela Martis

  • Genomic asymmetry in allopolyploid plants: wheat as a model

    Moshe Feldman;Avraham A Levy;Tzion Fahima;Abraham Korol

  • Molecular Genetic Maps in Wild Emmer Wheat, Triticum dicoccoides: Genome-Wide Coverage, Massive Negative Interference, and Putative Quasi-Linkage

    Junhua Peng;Abraham B. Korol;Tzion Fahima;Marion S. Röder

Frequent Co-Authors

Eviatar Nevo
Eviatar Nevo University of Haifa
Zvi Peleg
Zvi Peleg Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Abraham B. Korol
Abraham B. Korol University of Haifa
Yehoshua Saranga
Yehoshua Saranga Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jorge Dubcovsky
Jorge Dubcovsky University of California, Davis
Assaf Distelfeld
Assaf Distelfeld University of Haifa
Avigdor Beiles
Avigdor Beiles University of Haifa
Marion S. Röder
Marion S. Röder Leibniz Association
Cristobal Uauy
Cristobal Uauy John Innes Centre
Ismail Cakmak
Ismail Cakmak Sabancı University

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