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"In October 2018, an international team of researchers released a paper that described the main results of the cloning of the highly effective wheat stripe rust resistance gene, Yr15. This discovery, which has great significance for the wheat community, was the outcome of 25 years of research"
AgNews, 31/01/2019
"The Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) award was given to Dr. Valentina Klymiuk from the University of Haifa for her discovery of a unique gene in wild emmer wheat."
The Jerusalem Post, 24/03/2019
Haifa U’s Prof. Fahima Celebrated for Global Impact on Food Insecurity
"The US-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD) recognized professors from the University of California, Davis, and University of Haifa as world-class contributors to combating food insecurity.
In the organization’s 40 Year Review, they recognized Prof. Tzion Fahima, head of the Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Disease Resistance at the Institute of Evolution at the University of Haifa; and University of California, Davis’ Prof. Jorge Dubcovsky for their “outstanding scientific achievement and excellence” for their 20 year-study which successfully identified genes that increased grain protein content and conferred resistance to stripe rust (a fungal disease of wheat)."
Jewish press, 21/10/2022
"The discovery of 6,000 year old barley in a cave in Israel’s Judean desert has led to an important finding about the origins of human agriculture.
A team of German and Israeli scientists sequenced the genome of the barley, and, comparing it to present-day barley discovered that the grain was first domesticated in what is now modern day Israel.
“The places where plants were domesticated are the places where human culture began,” said Tzion Fahima, a professor in evolutionary and environmental biology at the University of Haifa. “Until now they believed that it was started in east Turkey and north Syria in this region, where Abraham came from.”"
Forward, Naomi Zeveloff, 04/08/2016
"Prof. Tzion Fahima: "Today, looking ahead to the future of humanity, we are entering a world that is becoming more and more crowded and will reach 10 billion people in 2050, who will have to live and eat around the globe "."
Kav LeMoshav, 02/06/2022
"The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium published the first presentation of a high-quality, complete sequence of the bread wheat genome – which scientists had long thought to be an insurmountable task.
Researchers from the universities of Haifa and Tel Aviv, along with Israeli high-tech company NRGene – founded by ex-IDF intelligence officers from the army's vaunted 8200 technological unit – were part of the yearslong international project comprising more than 200 researchers from 20 countries."
IsraelHayom, 17/08/2018