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Yigal Cohen

Co-PI

Interest in the reduction of pesticide usage in agriculture, management of plant diseases by genetic resistance and cultural and management means, agro-solar dual use of agricultural lands, breeding horticultural crops for disease resistance and expertise in basil.

Cohen has supervised more than 70 graduate students. Published 251 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Current research interests include the epidemiology of oomycete plant diseases and their management by genetic, chemical, and physical means, with special emphasis on basil downy mildew, cucumber downy mildew, and potato late blight.

 

Publications

  1. Ben-Naim, Y. Falach, L. and Cohen, Y. 2018. Transfer of downy mildew resistance from wild basil (Ocimum americanum) to ‘Sweet basil’ (Ocimum basilicum. Phytopathology,108:114-123.
  2. Gur, L. Reuveni, M and Cohen Y. 2018. Phenology-Based Management of Alternaria Fruit Rot in Pink Lady Apples. Plant Disease. On line 15.12.2017
  3. Cohen Y, Rubin, A.E. and Galperin, M. 2018. Oxathiapiprolin-based fungicides provide enhanced control of tomato late blight induced by mefenoxam-insensitive Phytophthora infestans. PLoS ONE 13(9): e0204523.
  4. Cohen Y, Rubin, A.E. and Galperin, M. 2018. Control of cucumber downy mildew with novel fungicidal mixtures of oxathiapiprolin. Phytoparasitica 46:689–704
  5. Falach-Block, L., Ben-Naim Y. and Cohen, Y. 2019. Investigation of seed transmission in Peronospora belbahrii the causal agent of basil downy mildew. Agronomy 4, 205-216. doi:10.3390/agronomy9040205.
  6. Ben-Naim, Y. Falach, L, Ben Daniel, B.H., and Cohen, Y. Host range of Peronospora belbahrii, causal agent of basil downy mildew, in Israel. European J Plant Pathology 155:789-799.  DOI: 10.1007/s10658-019-01809-9
  7. Gur, L, Reuveni M. and Cohen, Y. 2019. Control of Alternaria fruit rot in ‘Pink Lady’ apples by fungicidal mixtures. Crop Protection 127 (2020) 104947
  8. Cohen, Y., Rubin, A.E. and Galperin, M. 2019. Novel synergistic fungicidal mixtures of oxathiapiprolin protect sunflower seeds from downy mildew caused by Plasmopara halstedii. PLoS ONE 14(9): e0222827. https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0222827.
  9. Cohen, Y. and Ben-Naim, Y. 2019. Mildew resistant basil plants. United States Patent Application Publication No.US 2019/0364774 A1, 5, 2019.
  10. Hermann, D. C., McKenzie, D., Cohen, Y. and Gisi. U. 2019. Phenylamides: Market trends and resistance evolution for important oomycete pathogens more than 35 years after the first product introduction (FRAC Code 4). pp 69-84 In: Fungicide Resistance in North America. 2nd Eds: K.L. Stevenson, M.T. McGrath, and C. A. Wyenandt. APS Press. 411 pp.
  11. Cohen, Y. 2020. Root treatment with oxathiapiprolin, benthiavalicarb or their mixture provides prolonged systemic protection against oomycete foliar pathogens. PLoS ONE 15(1): e0227556.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0227556
  12. Cohen, Y., Rubin, A.E., Galperin, M., Shamba, E. Zig, U., and Cooke, D.E.L. 2020. Migration and Selection Enforced Multiple Phenotypic and Genotypic Changes in the Population of Phytophthora infestans in Israel During the Last 36-year Period. Preprint doi:10.20944/preprints202001. 0321.v1
  13. Reuveni, M. and Cohen, Y. 2020. Essential tea tree oil activity against Bremia lactucae in lettuce. Agronomy, 10, 836-847; doi:10.3390/agronomy10060836.
  14. Chen, T., Katz, D., Ben Naim, Y. Ben Daniel, B.H. Hammer r., and Cohen, Y. 2020. Isolate‐dependent inheritance of resistance against Pseudoperonospora cubensis in cucumber. Agronomy 2020, 10, 1086; doi:10.3390/agronomy10081086. On line 27.7.2020. 28 pp
  15. Cohen, Y., Reuveni, M., Gur, L. and Ovadia, S. 2020. Survival in the field of Pseudoperonospora cubensis and Plasmopara viticola after extreme hot and dry weather conditions in Israel” 48:699-703. (DOI: 10.1007/s12600-020-00839-y). online 16.8.2020
  16. Cohen, Y., and Rubin, A.E. 2020. A new strategy for durable control of late blight in potato by a single soil application of an oxathiapiprolin mixture in early season. PLoS ONE 15(8): e0238148.
  17. Thines, M., Buaya, A., Ploch, S., Ben Naim, Y. and Cohen, Y. 2020. Downy mildew of lavender caused by Peronospora belbahrii. Mycological Progress: 19:1537-1543.
  18. Gur, Lior; Reuveni, Moshe; Cohen, Yigal. 2021. β-amino-butyric acid induced resistance against Alternaria fruit rot in apple fruits. Journal of Fungi 7: 564-577.
  19. Gur, Lior; Reuveni, Moshe; Cohen, Yigal; Cadle‐Davidson, Lance; Kisselstein, Breanne; Ovadia, Shmuel; Frenkel, Omer. 2021. Population structure of Erysiphe necator on domesticated and wild vines in the Middle East raises questions on the origin of the grapevine powdery mildew pathogen. Environmental Microbiology Article in Press
  20. Cohen Y, Rubin AE, Galperin M. 2021. Effective control of two genotypes of Phytophthora infestans in the field by three oxathiapiprolin fungicidal mixtures. PLoS ONE 16(10): e0258280.
  21. Gur, L., Cohen, Y., Frenkel, O., Schweitzer, R., Shlisel, M., and Reuveni, M. 2022. Mixtures of Macro and Micronutrients Control Grape Powdery Mildew and Alter Berry Metabolites. Plants 2022, 11, 978. https://doi.org/10.3390/ plants11070978.