The 32nd Evenari
symposium:
Exposing the
hidden half
Honoring Prof. Jhonathan Ephrath on his retirement
June 8th, 2022
Sede Boqer Campus
GEORGE EVENS FAMILY AUDITORIUM
The Evenari symposium is an annual gathering of plant and agriculture scientists and enthusiasts in honor of the late Prof. Michael Even-Ari at Sede Boqer campus. This year's topic highlights the below ground of plant
environment.
Registration link
09:20-11:15 Greetings and keynote speakers (Chairperson: Naftali Lazarovitch)
09:20-09:40 Naftali Lazarovitch, Head, The French Associates Institute for
Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Noam Weisbrod, Director, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Yitzhak Gutterman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
09:40-10:10 Ina Meier (Hamburg Uni.) Surplus carbon drives allocation and root – soil
interactions
10:10 –10:25 Prof. Yehoshua Saranga Lodging in Tef (Eragrostis tef) - Is it all about
Roots?
10:25-10:40 Amnon Cochavi The role of root architecture in plant stress tolerance
10:40-10:55 Yoram Kapulnik Can
mycorrhizae support Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)?
10:55-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-13:00 Session 1 (Chairperson: Vered Tzin)
11:15-11:45 Prof. Douglas Godbold Tracing the sources of soil organic matter in
Ethiopian land-use systems.
11:45-12:00 Tamir Klein Regulation of water transport in deciduous fruit trees
and their wild relatives in Israel
12:00-12:15 Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein Mechanisms regulating root meristem shape and
homeostasis
12:15-12:30 Hanan Eizenberg Remote sensing of the root parasitic plant broomrape
(Orobanche spp. and Phelipanche spp.)
12:30-12:45 Shimon Rachmilevitch Belowground family ties within the Solanaceae
12:45-13:00 Idan Efroni How many kinds of roots are there?
13:00-14:30 Lunch and Posters
14:30-16:30 Session 2 (Chairperson: Simon Barak)
14:30-15:00 Boris Rewald The invisible half - Biogenic volatile organic compounds
(BVOC) above- and belowground
15:00-15:15 Nirit Bernstein Interplay between mineral uptake and secondary
metabolites in medical cannabis
15:15-15:30 Eilon Shani Developing genomic tools to reveal the hidden genome
of the hidden half
15:30-15:45 Zhou Kaining In-situ root phenotyping of crops grown under
stressed conditions
15:45-16:00 Ran Erel Root traits associated with phosphate acquisition by plants
16:00-16:20 Closing remarks, Pedro Berliner
