Dr. Rivka Hadas
E- mail: rihadas@volcani.agri.gov.il
Tel: +972-3-9683896
Fax: +972-3-9683895
Israel Plant Gene Bank
ARO Volcani Center
POB 6, Bet Dagan 50250, ISRAEL
1974 - 1977
1984 - 1986
B.Sc. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture Rehovot
M.Sc. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture Rehovot
1988 - 1992
Ph.D. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ARO, the Volcani Center,
Department of Virology
(Characterization of Azospirillum brasilense effects on tomato and other vegetables).
(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 Volcani Center
(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 Volcani
Center. (Bacterial and virus diseases supervisor, and Quality Assurance
Manager)
2004 to date, Research scientist at the Volcani Center, 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: www.worldseed.org
 Hadas, R. (2000). Tobamovirus in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.) seeds.
In: Kees van Ettekoven ed. Seed health testing methods reference manual, ISHIVEGETABLE. Naktuinnbouw, The Netherlands P:77-79. Electronic version at ISF:
www.worldseed.org
 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. and
Antignus, 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. and Antignus, 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, Wallingford UK.
 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 invertase distinguishes 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: 3839 (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. JulyAugust 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, Wallingford UK.
 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 Viruses Cucurbit 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: 1418, (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
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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 Israeli Gene Bank Documentation
Center – 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 rareendangered 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.).