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CURRICULUM VITAE – ASAPH AHARONI

A. Personal Data

Name: Asaph AharoniDate and place of birth: 25-11-1966, Petach –Tikva, IsraelSex: maleNationality: IsraeliMarital status: single

Address at work: Asaph AharoniDepartment of Plant Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of ScienceRehovot 76100, IsraelEmail: [email protected]: 972-8-9343643Fax: 972-8-9344181

Personal address: Weizmann Institute, Wolfson dormitories Daled, Apartment 33, Rehovot 76100, Israel; Tel-972-8-9342887

B. Education

1996 – 2002: Ph.D. in Plant Sciences, awarded CUM LAUDE, Wageningen University, The Netherlands (16 October, 2002).Research conducted at Plant Research International, Wageningen, The Netherlands.Promoter: Prof. J.N.M. Mol, Department of Genetics, Free University of Amsterdam and Prof. Willem J. Stiekema, Department of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University.Co-promoter: Prof. Arjen van Tunen and Dr. A. P. O’Connell.Thesis: “Strawberry and Beyond: A Novel and Comprehensive Investigation of Fruit Maturation and Ripening”.

1994 - 1996: M.Sc. awarded CUM LAUDE at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Horticulture, Rehovot, Israel (25 June, 1996).Supervisor: Dr. A. Vainstein.Thesis: “Developing Efficient Regeneration and Transformation Methods for Carnation and Gypsophila Plants”.

1991 - 1994: B.Sc., Agronomy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, Rehovot, Israel.

Updated to November 21, 2011 CV Asaph Aharoni 1

C. Employment History

November 2011 – present:Associate professor at the Department of Plant Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

August 2004 – present:Senior scientist at the Department of Plant Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

2002 – 2004:Post-doctorate in Dr. Andy Pereira’s group in Plant Research Int., Wageningen, The Netherlands.

D. Academic administration and appointments

Review Editor The Plant Journal (starting October 2010; Editor-in-Chief: Christopher Benning) (Active)

Frontiers in Plant Physiology (Editor-in-Chief: Walf B. Frommer).

Frontiers in Plant Metabolism and Chemodiversity (Editor: Joe Noel).

Frontiers in Plant Biotechnology (Editor-in-Chief: Kazuki Saito).

Molecular Biotechnology (Editor-in-Chief: John M. Walker) (2008-2010).

Other appointments Vice chair of the Israel Society of Mass spectrometry.

Member of the Israel Analytical Chemistry Society executive committee.

Education Vice chair, Life Sciences Teaching Committee, Weizmann Institute (since October 2009).

Organizer of the Ulpana De Shalit for Life Sciences, Weizmann Institute (summer 2006 & 2007).

Member of the international PhD school in "Genomics and Molecular Physiology of Fruits",

Trento, Italy (2009).

Teaching - courses 2006 - 2007: "The Plant Metabolome", Feinberg graduate school, Weizmann Institute (complete

course).

2007 - 2008: "Frontiers in Metabolome Sciences", Feinberg graduate school, Weizmann Institute

(complete course).

2008 - 2009: "Metabolism meets development", Feinberg graduate school, Weizmann Institute

(part of the lessons).

Student examiner


Ph.D and M.Sc. applicants to the Weizmann Institute.

Ph.D and M.Sc. applicants from several Israeli institutions.

Peer reviewer Scientific journals, approx. 30 manuscripts per year (Plant Cell, Plant Physiology, Plant Journal,

PLoS journals, Nature Biotech, Science, Trends journals, Metabolomics, PNAS and more).

Ph.D. and M.Sc theses (from various Israeli institutes).

Grant applications from Israel and abroad (NSF, USDA, BBSRC, ISF, BSF, BARD, ISF, IMOA

and more).

E. International Recognition

Honors and awards

The James Heineman Research Award for Biological and Biomedical research, 2010.

The Weizmann Institute Scientific Council Prize (Levinson prize in Biology), 2008.

The ERC (European Research Council) grant for Starting Independent Investigators, 2008.

The Yigal Alon Fellowship award by the Council for Higher Education in Israel, 2005.

The Sir Charles Clore Prize, 2004, Israel.

Competitive scholarship for the Postdoc position from the Centre for Bio-systems Genomics

(CBSG), The Netherlands, 2003.

Plant Research International award, November, 2001.

Plant Research International award, November, 2000.

CPRO-DLO institute award, December 1999.

CPRO-DLO institute award, September 1998.

Conference and Workshops Organization

Co-organizer, Israel Society of Mass spectrometry meeting 2011, Weizmann Institute,

December, 2011.

Co-organizer, The Israeli Analytical Chemistry Meeting- ISRANALYTICA 2011, Tel-Aviv,

February 2011.

Co-organizer, The 1st “Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Sea Region Countries Mass

Spectrometry Workshop", Weizmann Institute, October 2010.

Co-organizer, ISF Workshop on: "Metabolism, Metabolomics and Metabolic Engineering in

Plants", Ein-Gedi, Israel, November 2009.

Organizer of the Ulpana Amos de-Shalit for Life Sciences, a one week course for excellent

undergraduate students in Israel, Weizmann Institute, August 2007.

Chairman of the 6th Congress of The Israel Association for Medicinal Chemistry, Weizmann

Institute, March 2007.


Co-organizer of the MINERVA Workshop on "Metabolism Meets Development", Weizmann

Institute, September 2006.

Organizer of the Ulpana Amos de-Shalit for Life Sciences, a one week course for excellent

undergraduate students in Israel, Weizmann Institute, September 2006.

Lectures in Congresses and Workshops

1. Gene Discovery in the Glycoalkaloids Pathway. The 8th SOL and 2nd ICuGI Joint Conference,

July 2012, Umah, Sweden (future).

2. Recent Developments in Plant Metabolomics. Advances in Metabolic Profiling 2011, co-located

with Mass Spec Europe 2011. November, 2011, Dublin, Ireland (future).

3. Gene Discovery in the Glycoalkaloids Pathway. The 8th SOL and 2nd ICuGI Joint Conference,

November 2011, Kyoto, Japan (session chair; future).

4. Developments in Plant Metabolomics. Metabomeeting, September 2011, Helsinki, Finland.

5. Transcriptional Regulation of Cuticular Lipids Metabolism in Vegetative and Reproductive Plant

Organs. "Emerging role of Plant Cuticle in plant development and defense" in 5th Conference of

Polish Society of Experimental Plant Biology, September 2011, Wroclaw, Poland.

6. Metabolic Control Mediated by the Plant TPP Riboswitch. Federation of the Israel Societies for

Experimental Biology ILANIT congress, February, 2011, Eilat, Israel.

7. Transcriptional Regulation of Cuticular Lipids Metabolism in Vegetative and Reproductive Plant

Organs. Gordon Research Conference: Plant Lipids: Structure, Metabolism & Function, January,

2011, Galveston, TX, USA.

8. Combining Metabolomics and Transcriptomics for Metabolic Pathway Discovery in Plants.

WIS/SIB workshop, January 2011, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel.

9. Gene Discovery in the Glycoalkaloids Pathway. BioNorth workshop on production of natural

products from plants for medicinal use, December 2010, Technion, Israel.

10. Metabolomics and Metabolism of the Plant Surface. MEXICOBIO/2010, October 2010,

Irapuato, Mexico.

11. Glycosylation of Glycoalkaloids: Prevention of Toxicity to the Plant Cell or/and Mechanisms of

Defense to Pests and Pathogens?. SOL 2010 International Meeting, September 2010, Dundee, Scotland.

12. How do plants coat their surface? lessons from Arabidopsis and Tomato. Symposium in the

memory of Michael Evenari, June 2010, Sde Boker, Israel.

13. TAGL1 and ORR Impinge on Ripening and Carotenoid Accumulation in Tomato Fruit. Gordon

conference on Carotenoids, January 2010, Ventura, California, USA.

14. Recent Developments in Plant Metabolomics. The 75th meeting of the Israel Chemical Society,

January 2010, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

15. Function and Evolution of the TPP Riboswitch in the Plant Kingdom. SOL 2009 International

Meeting, November 2009, New Delhi, India.


16. Structure-Function Relation in Plant Surface Biology. ISF Workshop on: "Metabolism,

Metabolomics and Metabolic Engineering in Plants", November 2009, Ein-Gedi, Israel.

17. Glycosylation of Glycoalkaloids: Prevention of Toxicity to the Plant Cell or/and Mechanisms of

Defense to Pests and Pathogens?. 9th International Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB) Congress,

October 2009, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

18. Gene Discovery in the Tomato Glycoalkaloid Pathway. EU SOL meeting, October 2009, Toledo, Spain.

19. The Plant TPP Riboswitch and its Future Exploitation for the Production of Vitamin B1 Enriched

Crop Plants. Workshop on Crop-Design, September 2009, Rehovot, Israel.

20. Towards Integrating Transcriptomics and Metabolomics. The first BioOmics meeting, September

2009, Rehovot, Israel.

21. Novel Genes and Mutants Associated with Tomato Fruit Development and Ripening. EU-SOL

workshop, July 2009, Acco, Israel.

22. Using UPLC-TOF-MS and GC-MS for metabolome analyses in plants and yeast .

ISRANALYTICA 2009, the 12th Annual Meeting of the Israel Analytical Chemistry Society,

January 2009, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

23. Gene Expression and Metabolism in Tomato Fruit Surface. The SOL 2008 meeting, October

2008, Koln, Germany.

24. The TPP Riboswitch Regulates the Plant Vitamin B1 Biosynthesis Pathway by Affecting

Alternative Splicing and mRNA Stability. Regulatory Role of Small RNA meeting, September

2008, Rehovot, Israel.

25. The TPP Riboswitch Regulates the Plant Vitamin B1 Biosynthesis Pathway by Affecting

Alternative Splicing and mRNA Stability. The FASEB Summer Research Conference entitled:

"Post-Transcriptional Control of Gene Expression: Mechanisms of mRNA Decay", September

2008, Ciocco, Lucca, Italy.

26. Homeostasis Between Primary and Secondary Metabolism: A Case Study from the Arabidopsis

Glucosinolate Pathways. The Banff Conference on Plant Metabolism, July 2008, Banff, Canada.

27. On the Outside of Arabidopsis and Tomato: How Plants Build Vegetative and Reproductive

Organs Surface?. 18th International Symposium on Plant Lipids, July 2008, Bordeaux, France.

28. The Proximal and Distal Circles of the Transcriptome and Metabolome Effected by the Two

Clades of Arabidopsis Glucosinolate Biosynthesis Regulators. 5th International Conference on

Plant Metabolomics, July 2008, Yokohama, Japan.

29. Riboswitch-Dependent Gene Regulation and its Evolution in the Plant Kingdom. 5th Congress of

the Federation of the Israel Societies for Experimental Biology (ILANIT), January 2008, Eilat, Israel.

30. Mass spectrometry in Plant Metabolomics. 21st Israeli Society for Mass Spectrometry Meeting,

Weizmann Institute, December 2007, Rehovot, Israel.


31. The Ins and Outs of Tomato Fruit Peel Metabolome. EUCARPIA Fruit Section Meeting,

September 2007, Zaragoza, Spain

32. The Ins and Outs of Tomato Fruit Metabolome. The 4th Solanaceae Genome Workshop,

September 2007, Jeju Island, South Korea.

33. The Ins and Outs of Plant Surface Metabolism. The 1st Weizmann-Singapore meeting,

Weizmann Institute, August 2007, Rehovot, Israel.

34. Using Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC)-QTOF-MS for Metabolome Analysis of

Tomato Fruit Peel. Metabolomics workshop, June 2007, Wageningen, The Netherlands

35. On the Outside of Fleshy Fruit: A Study of Gene Expression and Metabolic Pathways in Peel

and Normal mutant Tomato. Agricultural Biomarkers for Array Technology-COST Workshop,

May 2007, Girona, Spain

36. Application of Metabolomics for Improving Fruit and Flowers Quality. Workshop on Research

Directions in Technology and Storage of Agricultural Products, April 2007, Neve-Ilan (Volcani Institute), Israel

37. Gene Expression and Metabolic Pathways in the Arabidopsis and Tomato Fruit Surfaces. The

Otto Warburg Minerva Center Symposium: Comparative Genomics, February 2007, Faculty of

Agriculture, Israel

38. Regulation of Plant Surface Metabolism. MINERVA Workshop on "Metabolism Meets

Development", September 2006, Weizmann Institute, Israel,


Tomato Fruit Peel. SOL 2006 meeting, July 2006, Madison, USA.


Tomato Fruit Peel. 4th International Plant Metabolomics Conference, April 2006, Reading, UK.

41. Matter of Location: From Fruit Flavour to Attraction of Bodyguard. Workshop on sensory and

aroma, March 2006, Volcani Center, Israel.

42. Using UPLC-TOF-MS and GC-MS for Metabolome Analyses in Plants and Yeast.ANALYTICA

2006 - The 9th Annual Meeting of the Israel Analytical Chemistry Society, January 2006, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

43. Gain and Loss of Fruit Volatile Terpenoids Produced by Wild and Cultivated Strawberry

Species.XVII International Botanical Congress, July 2005, Vienna, Austria.

44. Metabolic Engineering of Terpenoid Biosynthesis in Plants. The Terpnet 2005 Meeting, April

2005, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

45. Gain and Loss of Fruit Flavor Compounds Produced by Wild and Cultivated Strawberry Species.

American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting, August 2004, Philadelphia, USA.

46. Gain and Loss of Fruit Flavor Compounds Produced by Wild and Cultivated Strawberry Species.

5th International postharvest Symposium, Workshop-Genomics and Proteomics of Fruit Quality,

June 2004, Verona, Italy.


47. Fruit Flavor Formation in Wild and Cultivated Strawberry. Institute Juan March, Centre for

International Meetings on Biology, Workshop on “The Making of a Fruit: From Genes to

Molecules to Phenotype”. 1-3 March, 2004, Madrid, Spain.

48. From Genomics to Metabolomics – Insight from Activation Tagging Arabidopsis Mutants. The

Society of Genetics in Israel Annual Meeting “Frontiers in Genetics”, February 2004, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

49. Altering Plant Terpenoid Metabolism: The Biosafety of Metabolic Changes. NATO ARW

workshop on Genomics for Biosafety in Plant Biotechnology: New Challenges. 15-19 October

2003, Bansco, Bulgaria.

50. Functional Genomics in Strawberry. COST 836 Workshop, October 2003, Ancona, Italy.

51. Gain of Function Activation Tagged Mutants for Dissecting Metabolic Pathways. Potential of

metabolic profiling in plant science, International workshop, November 2003, Torino, Italy.

52. Non-Targeted Metabolic Profiling Using Fourier Transform ion cyclotron Mass Spectrometry

(FTMS). 7th Int. Congress of Plant Molecular Biology, June 2003, Barcelona, Spain.

53. Fruit Flavour Genes: Multiple Pathways and Multiple Substrates for the Corresponding

Enzymes. 7th Int. Congress of Plant Molecular Biology, June 2003, Barcelona, Spain.54. Metabolic Profiling of Activation Tagged Arabidopsis Mutants using QTOF-MS. Second

International Conference on Plant Metabolomics, April 2003, Potsdam, Germany.

55. Strawberry and Beyond: A Novel and Comprehensive Investigation of Fruit Maturation and

Ripening. Netherlands society for plant biotechnology and tissue culture, spring symposium,

March, 2003, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

56. Metabolome Activation. ARANED, February 2003, Leiden, The Netherlands.

57. Profiling Strawberry Fruit Maturation: From Gene Expression to Metabolic Pathways. The third

symposium of plant molecular genetics and breeding (recent advances in plant genomics and

molecular breeding), August, 2002, Seoul National University (Suwon Campus), South Korea.

58. Fruit Flavour Genes: From Gene Expression to Metabolic Pathways. Gordon Research

Conference on Postharvest Physiology, August, 2002, MA, USA.

59. Strawberry and Beyond: From Gene Expression to Metabolic Pathways. SEB annual meeting,

fruit development and ripening session, April 2002. Swansea, Wales.

60. Profiling Fruit Maturation: From Gene Expression to Metabolic Pathways. The first international

conference on plant metabolomics, April 2002, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

61. Profiling Fruit Maturation: From Gene Expression to Metabolic Pathways in Strawberry.

Phytochemical society of North America (PSNA) annual meeting, “Phytochemistry in the

genomics and post-genomics eras”, August 2001, Oklahoma, USA.

62. Function search in plants: expression profiling by DNA microarrays. Winterschool Bioinformatics,

December 2000, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

63. Unraveling metabolic pathways and gene function in strawberry using cDNA microarrays. IBC’s

CHIPS to HITS, November 2000, Philadelphia, USA.


64. Unraveling metabolic pathways and gene function in strawberry using cDNA microarrays. 6th

International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology, June 2000, Quebec, Canada.

65. Ripening on Chips. DNA microarray technology workshop, Cartesian Technologies/GSI-

lumonics/TeleChem, April 2000, Frankfurt, Germany.

66. Studying strawberry fruit development and ripening using cDNA microarrays. Plant Protein Club

Workshop “Microarrays”, University of York, March 2000, York, UK.

67. Strawberry chips: using DNA microarrays for large scale gene expression analysis in fruits. 4th

International Conference on Postharvest Science, March 2000, Jerusalem, Israel.

68. Strawberry on chips: from gene expression to metabolic pathways. VIII International Plant and

Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, January 2000, CA, USA.

69. Strawberry on chips: gene expression analysis during strawberry development using cDNA

microarrays. The Microarray Meeting: Technology, Application & Analysis. Scottsdale,

September 1999, Arizona, USA.

70. Strawberry on chips: from gene expression to metabolic pathways. Pathway engineering in

plants, August 1999, York, UK.

71. Ripening on chips. Workshop on genomic micro-arrays technology, April 1999, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

72. Ripening on chips. Weizmann Institute of Science, March, 1999, Rehovot, Israel.

73. Monitoring the expression of ripening associated strawberry genes using cDNA microarrays. Lab

chips and microarrays for biotechnological applications, January, 1999. Zurich, Switzerland.

74. DNA chip technology as a tool for the isolation of ripening related genes. SLW Working Party

Experimental Plant Sciences, February, 1998, Lunteren, The Netherlands.

75. Isolation and characterization of cytochrome P450 cDNAs from strawberry fruit. 17th

International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Satellite meeting, Cytochrome

P450, August, 1997, San Francisco, USA.

76. Isolation and characterization of flavour genes from strawberry. SLW Working Party

Experimental Plant Sciences, April, 1997, Lunteren, The Netherlands.


Invited seminars

1. Regulation of Plant Surface Formation. Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of

Lausanne, guest of Christiane Nawrath, June 2011, Lausanne, Switzerland.

2. Gene Discovery in the Glycolalkaloids pathway. University of Barcelona, Centre for Research in

Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), guest of Manuel Rodriguez-Concepcion, May 2011, Barcelona, Spain.

3. Gene and Pathway Discovery in Glycoalkaloid Metabolism. University of Milan, guest of Martin

Kater, April 2011, Milano, Italy.

4. The TPP Riboswitch Plays a Vital Role in Regulating Plant Central Metabolism . MPI-Golm,

March 2011, Golm, Germany.

5. The TPP Riboswitch Plays a Vital Role in Regulating Plant Central Metabolism . University of

Copenhagen, March 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark.

6. The Ins and Outs of Tomato Fruit Metabolism. University of Davis, Department of Food Science

and Technology, February 2011, Davis, USA.

7. Assimilation of Analytical Chemistry in the Study of Plant Biology. The Minerva Biotechnology

Center Seminar workshop, Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, February

2010, Sde-Yoav, Israel.

8. How do Plants Coat Their Surface? Lessons from Arabidopsis and Tomato. National Chemical

Laboratory Institute (NCL), November 2009, Pune, India.

9. Switching the Light on Plant Riboswitches. Peking University, September 2009, Beijing, China.

10. How do plants coat their surface? lessons from Tomato. Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy

of Science (CAS), September 2009, Beijing, China.

11. Plant development and protection mediated by the cuticle. IVF Institute, Chinese Academy of

Agricultural Science (CAAS), September 2009, Beijing, China.

12. Novel Genes and Mutants Associated with Tomato Fruit Development and Ripening. Vilmorin

Incorporation, September 2009, Paris, France.

13. How do fruit coat their surface? lessons from Tomato. Hazera company, September 2009,

Kiryat Gat, Israel.

14. Switching the light on plant riboswitches. Haifa University, May 2009, Haifa, Israel.

15. Glycosylation of Glycoalkaloids: prevention of toxicity to the plant cell or/and mechanisms of

defense to pests and pathogens. Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Rehovot, Israel.

16. Switching the light on plant riboswitches. Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology,

March 2009, Stanford, USA.

17. How do plants coat their surface? lessons from Arabidopsis and Tomato. Department of Plant

Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, March 2009, New York, USA.

18. Switching the light on plant riboswitches. Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology,

March 2009, Stanford, USA.


19. How do plants coat their surface? lessons from Arabidopsis and Tomato. University of California,

Davis, March 2009, Davis, USA.

20. A TPP Riboswitch is Active in Plants: It's Role and Mode of Action. Department of Biochemistry,

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, January 2009, Jerusalem, Israel.

21. The world of riboswitches. The RNA World graduate course and seminar series sessions Tel-

Aviv University, January 2009, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

22. How do plants coat their surface? lessons from Arabidopsis and Tomato. Hebrew University,

Faculty of Agriculture, December 2008, Rehovot, Israel.

23. How do plants coat their surface? lessons from Arabidopsis and Tomato. Laboratoire

d’Ecophysiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, December 2008, Cadarache, France.

24. The Ins and Outs of Vegetative and Reproductive Plant Organs Surfaces. Genetics and

Molecular Biology Department, Instituto Agrario San Michele all'Adige, September 2008, Trento, Italy.

25. Riboswitch-dependent Gene Regulation and its Evolution in the Plant Kingdom. Department of

Botany, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May 2008, Jerusalem, Israel.

26. Maintaining the Homeostasis between Primary and Secondary metabolism: A case study from

Glucosinolates Biosynthesis. University of Milano, March 2008, Milano, Italy.

27. Maintaining the Homeostasis between Primary and Secondary metabolism: A case study from

Glucosinolates Biosynthesis. Parco Technologico Padano, March 2008, Lodi, Italy.

28. Gene Expression and Metabolic Pathways in the Arabidopsis and Tomato Fruit Surfaces.

Genetics course seminar series, Faculty of Agriculture, February 2008, Rehovot, Israel.

29. The Ins and Outs of vegetative and reproductive plant organs. Department of Genetics and

Vegetable Crops, ARO, the Volcani Center, January 2008, Israel.

30. The Ins and Outs of vegetative and reproductive plant organs. Malaga University, October 2007,

Malaga, Spain.

31. The Ins and Outs of Tomato Fruit Peel Metabolome. Cordoba University, October 2007,

Cordoba, Spain.

32. The Ins and Outs of Tomato Fruit Peel Metabolome. University of Valencia, October 2007,

Valencia, Spain.

33. Regulation of Plant Surface Metabolism. Max Planck Institute, July 2007, Koln, Germany.

34. Three and a half years post-PRI: Research on Plant Surface in the Aharoni lab. Plant Research

International, June 2008, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

35. Mass-spectrometry based Metabolomics for gene function and metabolic pathway discovery in

plants. The Department of Life Sciences at the Ben-Gurion University, April 2007, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

36. Regulation of Plant Surface Metabolism. The Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research,

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, February 2007, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel.


37. Regulation of Plant Surface Metabolism. Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces,

November 2006, Golm, Germany.

38. The Outer Surface of Plants: Cuticle Related Gene Expression and Metabolic Pathways in

Vegetative and Reproductive Organs. The Danforth Center, October 2006, St. Louis, Atlanta, USA.

39. Regulation of Plant Surface Metabolism. Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, June

2006, Israel.

40. The Outer Surface of Plants: Cuticle Related Gene Expression and Metabolic Pathways in

Vegetative and Reproductive Organs. KeyGene company, January 2006, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

41. Metabolic Engineering of Terpenoid Biosynthesis in Plants. Department of Plant Biology,

University of Turin, April 2005, Turin, Italy.

42. When (and Where) Metabolism Meets Development in Arabidopsis. Tel-Aviv University,

November 2004, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

43. When (and Where) Metabolism Meets Development in Arabidopsis. Department of Genetics and

Vegetable Crops, ARO, the Volcani Center, November 2004, Israel.

44. When (and Where) Metabolism Meets Development in Arabidopsis. Department of Plant

Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, February 2004, Rehovot, Israel.

45. From Flavors in Fruit to Resistance in Crops. Max Planck Institute, November 2003, Koln, Germany.

46. Profiling Strawberry Fruit Maturation: From Gene Expression to Metabolic Pathways. Technion,

April, 2003, Haifa, Israel.

47. New “omics” Tools for Biodiversity Analysis. The analysis of natural variation within crop and

model plants, Int. summer school, Wageningen University, April, 2003, Wageningen, The Netherlands.


Ripening. Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, February 2003, Rehovot, Israel.


Ripening. February 2003, Israel.

50. Profiling Strawberry Fruit Maturation: From Gene Expression to Metabolic Pathways. Korean

Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), December, 2002, Taejon, South Korea.

51. Strawberry Fruit Maturation and Ripening: from Gene Expression to Metabolic Pathways. Curse

on microarray technology, Hogeschool Leiden June, 2002, Leiden, The Netherlands.

52. Strawberry Fruit Maturation and Ripening: from Gene Expression to Metabolic Pathways. INRA,

Bordeaux, March 2002, Bordeaux, France.


53. Strawberry Fruit Maturation and Ripening: from Gene Expression to Metabolic Pathways. INRA,

Toulouse, March 2002, Toulouse, France.

54. Strawberry Fruit Maturation and Ripening: From Gene expression to Metabolic Pathways.

University of Michigan, department of biology, August 2001, Ann-Arbor, USA.

55. Functional Genomics in Plants. University of Milano, July 2001, lecture for students in a course

by Dr. L. Colombo, Milano, Italy.

56. Strawberry fruit maturation and ripening: from gene expression to metabolic pathways. The

Volcani Center, June 2001, Israel.

57. DNA microarray technology and its applications. Free University of Amsterdam, May 2001,

Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

58. Unraveling metabolic pathways and gene function in strawberry using cDNA microarrays.

Novartis (Syngenta), November 2000, North Carolina, USA.

59. From DNA sequence to metabolic pathways. Fermenich, July 2000, Geneva, Switzerland.

60. Unraveling metabolic pathways and gene function in strawberry using cDNA microarrays.

University of Amsterdam, BioCentrum, July 2000, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

61. Ripening on chips. Zeneca Wheat Improvement Centre, March 2000, Norwich, UK.

62. Ripening on chips. University of California Davis, January 2000, CA, USA.

63. Ripening on chips. Experimental Plant Science seminar. Wageningen University, The Netherlands. June 1999.

64. Ripening on chips. Weizmann Institute of Science, March, 1999, Rehovot, Israel.

65. Strawberry genes and chips. Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, April, 1998,

Rehovot, Israel.

F. Scientific Productivity

Lab members (Students, Post-doc fellows, Associate researchers, Laborants and Professional advisors)

M.Sc. students:

Tali Mendel, 2006 - 2008: Characterization of the y colorless peel tomato mutant.

Oshry Markovich, 2008 - 2009: Regulation of the glucosinolate metabolism and insect behavior.

Louise Maor, 2008 - 2010 (supervised together with Yuval Eshed): Phase change in the

Solanaceae species.

Dorit Levy, 2008 - present: The cuticle barrier of glandular trichomes.


Gilad Rubinsky, 2008 - present (supervised together with Saul Burdman): Discovery of factors

for bacterial resistance in the epidermis layer.

Yinon Izkovitz, 2008 - present: Activation tagging in tomato.

Guy Polturak, 2010 - present: Gene discovery in the Betalain pathway.

Hilary Wyner, 2011 – present: Hormone analysis in developing fruit,

Maor Batat, 2011 – present: The primary-secondary metabolism interface.

Ph.D. students:

Nir Shachaf, 2010 – present: Metabolomics data analysis (with F. Mattivi, IASMA, Italy).

Justin Lashbruk, 2010 -present: Fleshy fruit surface (with F. Costa, IASMA, Italy).

Louise Maor, 2010 – present: Phase change and fleshy fruit development.

Ilya Venger, 2006 - 2009 (supervised together with Tzachi Pilpel): Metabolomics in yeast.

Roy Borochov, 2007 - present (supervised together with David Weiss):

Shira Mintz, 2007 - present (supervised together with Tomer Shlomi): Constructing a

mathematical model for plant metabolism.

Sergey Malitsky, 2007 - present: The plant primary and secondary metabolism interface.

Dario Breitel, 2006 - present: Regulation of fruit development and ripening by micro-RNAs

(former MSc student in the lab).

Max Itkin, 2005 - 2010: Regulation of fruit ripening (former PhD student in the lab).

Postdoc fellows:

Yariv Broetman, 2005: The primary-secondary metabolism interface (Postdoc fellow, MPI-

Golm, Germany)

David Panikashvili, 2006 - 2009: Transport and polymerization of cuticular constituents. (Team

leader, Evogene company).

Asa Eitan, 2006 - 2009: ASAM1 mediates the interface between primary and flavonoid

metabolism in the Arabidopsis anther. (Researcher Fulcrum SP materials company).

Rivka Elbaum, 2007 - 2008: Silica in plants. (Group head, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Jianxin Shi, 2007 - present: Transcriptional regulation of cuticle related metabolic pathways.

Arieh Moussieff, 2008 - present: Cell layer specific metabolic profiling.

Max Itkin, 2010 - present: Deciphering the steroidal alkaloid patwhay (former PhD student in

the lab).

Samuel Bocobza, 2006 - present: Riboswitch mediated regulation of metabolic pathways in

Plants (former PhD student in the lab).


Associate researchers:

Ilana Rogachev, 2005 - present: Development of Metabolomics technologies (analytical

chemistry).

Avital Adato, 2007 - 2011: Surface biology in reproductive organs (molecular biology).

Technicians:

Ofra Lotan, 2006: Fruit surface biology.

Merav Yativ, 2006 - 2007: Development of metabolomics technologies (analytical chemistry).

Sergey Gerzon, 2006-2009: Metabolomics data analyses (computer science).

Sagit Meir, 2008 - present: Development of metabolomics technologies (analytical chemistry)

Muriel Shemla, 2008 - present: Plant transformation (tissue culture).

Professional advisors:

Leonid Brodsky, 2008 - present: Metabolomics data analysis using mathematical and statistical

tools.

Sabbatical fellows:

Liron Feldberg (IIBR, Israel), 2007 -2008: Developing metabolomics technologies.

Ashok P. Giri (NCL, Puna, India), March-October, 2011. Glycoalkaloid gene discovery.


List of publications - Scientific Journals

1. Zuker, A., Aharoni, A., Chang, P.L., Cheah, K., Kononowicz, K.A., Woodson, W.R., Bressan,

R.A., Watad, A.A., Hasegawa, P.M. and Vainstein, A. (1995). Transformation of carnation by

microprojectile bombardment. Sci. Hortic. 64: 177-185.

2. Watad, A., Aharoni A., Zuker, A., Shejtman, H., Nissim, A., and Vainstein, A. (1996). Adventitious

shoot formation from carnation stem segments: a comparison of different culture procedures. Sci.

Hortic. 65: 313 – 320.

3. Zuker, A., Aharoni, A., Chang, P.L., Cheah, K., Kononowicz, K.A., Woodson, W.R., Bressan,

R.A., Watad, A.A., Hasegawa, P.M. and Vainstein, A. (1996). Transformation of carnation using the

biolistic method. Plant Tissue Cult. and Biotech. 2: 105 – 108.

4. Aharoni, A., Zuker, A., Rozen, Y., Shejtman, H. and Vainstein, A. (1997). An efficient method for

adventitious shoot regeneration from stem-segment explants of gypsophila. Plant Cell, Tissue and

Organ Culture 49: 101-106.

5. Zuker, A., Aharoni, A., Shejtman, H. and Vainstein, A. (1997). Adventitious shoot regeneration

from leaf explants of Gypsophila paniculata L.. Plant Cell Reports 16: 775-778.

6. B. Lemieux, A. Aharoni and M. Schena (1998). Overview of DNA chip technology.

Molecular Breeding 4: 277-289.

7. Zuker, A., Aharoni, A., Tzfira, T., Ben-Meir, H. and Vainstein, A. (1999). Wounding by

bombardment yields highly efficient Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of carnation (Dianthus

caryophyllus L.). Molecular Breeding 5: 367-3750.

8. Zuker, A., Tzfira, T., Shklarman, E., Scovel, G., Ovadis, M., Itzhaki, H., Ben-Meir, H. Aharoni, A., and Vainstein, A. (1999). Transgenic carnation plants. Focus, Volume 20 supplement.

9. Nicole L.W. van Hal, Oscar Vorst, Adele M.M.L. van Houwelingen, Esther J. KoK, Ad

Peijnenburg, Asaph Aharoni, Arjen J. van Tunen and Jaap Keijer. (2000). The application of DNA

microarrays in gene expression analysis. Journal of Biotechnology 78: 271-280.

10. Asaph Aharoni, Leopold C. P. Keizer, Harro J. Bouwmeester, Zhongkui Sun, Mayte Alvarez

Huerta, Harrie A. Verhoeven, Jan Blaas, Adèle M. M. L. van Houwelingen, Ric C. H. De Vos, Hilko

van der Voet, Ritsert C. Jansen, Monique Guis, Jos Mol, Ronald W. Davis, Mark Schena, Arjen J.

van Tunen, and Ann P. O'Connell (2000). Identification of the SAAT Gene Involved in Strawberry

Flavor Biogenesis by Use of DNA- Microarrays. The Plant Cell 12: 647-662.

11. Schwab W, Aharoni A, Raab T, Perez AG, Sanz C. (2001). Cytosolic aldolase is a ripening

related enzyme in strawberry fruits (Fragaria x ananassa). Phytochemistry 56(5): 407-415.

12. Asaph Aharoni, C. H. Ric De Vos, Martina Wein, Zhongkui Sun, Raffaella Greco, Arthur

Kroon, Joseph N. M. Mol and Ann P. O’Connell (2001). The Strawberry FaMYB1 Transcription

Factor Suppresses Anthocyanin and Flavonol Accumulation in Transgenic Tobacco. The Plant

Journal 28(3): 319-332.

13. Asaph Aharoni and Oscar Vorst (2001). DNA Microarrays for Functional Plant Genomics.

Plant Molecular Biology 48(1-2): 99-118, special issue on Functional Genomics.


14. Asaph Aharoni, Leopold C. P. Keizer, Hetty C. van den Broeck, Gregory Bois, Patrick Smit,

Ric C. H. De Vos and Ann P. O’Connell (2002). Novel Insight into Vascular, Stress and Auxin

Dependent and Independent Gene Expression Programs in Strawberry, a Non-Climacteric Fruit.

Plant Physiology 129: 1019-103.

15. Asaph Aharoni and Ann P. O’Connell (2002). Microarray Gene Expression Analysis During

Strawberry Achenes and Receptacle Maturation. The Journal of Experimental Botany 53(377):

2073-2087.

16. Asaph Aharoni, Ric de Vos, Harrie Verhoeven, Chris Maliepaard, Gary Kruppa, Raoul Bino

and Dayan Goodenowe (2002). Non-Targeted Metabolic Profiling Using Fourier Transform ion

cyclotron Mass Spectrometry (FTMS). OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology 6(3): 217-234.

17. Faye M. Rosin, Asaph Aharoni, Elma M. J. Salentijn, Jan G. Schaart, Marjan J. Boone, David

J Hannapel (2003). Expression Patterns of a putative homolog of AGAMOUS, STAG1, from

Strawberry. Plant Science 165: 959-968.

18. Elma M.J. Salentijn, Asaph Aharoni, Jan G. Schaart, Marjan J. Boone, Frans A. Krens (2003).

Differential Gene Expression Analysis of Strawberry Cultivars that Differ in Fruit-firmness.

Physiologia Plantarum 118: 571-578.

19. Asaph Aharoni, Ashok P. Giri, Stephan Deuerlein, Frans Griepink, Francel W.A. Verstappen,

Harrie A. Verhoeven, Maarten A. Jongsma, Wilfried Schwab and Harro J. Bouwmeester (2003).

Terpenoid Metabolism in Wild-Type and Transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana Plants. The Plant Cell

15(12):2866-2884.

20. Jules Beekwilder, Mayte Alvarez-Huerta, Evert Neef, Francel W.A. Verstappen, Harro J.-

Bouwmeester and Asaph Aharoni (2004). Functional Characterization of Enzymes Forming

Volatile Esters from Strawberry and Banana. Plant Physiology 135(4): 1865-1878.

21. Asaph Aharoni, Shital Dixit, Reinhard Jetter, Eveline Thoenes, Gert Van Arkel, and Andy

Pereira (2004). The SHINE Clade of AP2 Domain Transcription Factors Activate Wax Biosynthesis,

Alter Cuticle Properties and Confer Drought Tolerance when Overexpressed in Arabidopsis (2004).

The Plant Cell, 16(9):2463-2480.

22. Asaph Aharoni, Ashok P. Giri, Francel W.A. Verstappen, Cinzia M. Bertea, Robert Sevenier,

Zhongkui Sun, Maarten A. Jongsma, Wilfried Schwab and Harro J. Bouwmeester (2004). Gain and

Loss of Fruit Flavor Compounds Produced by Wild and Cultivated Strawberry Species. The Plant

Cell, 16 (10): 3100-3131.

23. Asaph Aharoni, Maarten A. Jongsma and Harro J. Bouwmeester (2005). Volatile science?

Metabolic engineering of terpenoids in plants. Trends in Plant Science, 10(12), 594-602.

24. Iris F. Kappers*, Asaph Aharoni*, Teun W.J.M. van Herpen, Ludo L.P. Lückerhoff, Marcel

Dicke and Harro J. Bouwmeester (2005). Genetic engineering of terpenoid metabolism attracts

bodyguards to Arabidopsis. Science, 309, 2070-2072.

*These authors contributed equally to the results described in this work.


25. Stefan Lunkenbein, MariLuz Bellido, Asaph Aharoni, Elma Salentijn, Ralf Kaldenhoff, Heather

Coiner, Juan Muñoz-Blanco, and Wilfried Schwab (2006). Cinnamate metabolism in ripening fruit:

Characterization of an UDP-glucose:cinnamate- glucosyltransferase from strawberry. Plant

Physiology, 140, 1047-1058.

26. Asaph Aharoni, Maarten A. Jongsma, Tok-Yong Kim, Man-Bok Ri, Ashok P. Giri, Francel

W.A. Verstappen, Wilfried Schwab and Harro J. Bouwmeester (2006). Metabolic Engineering of

Terpenoid Biosynthesis in Plants. Phytochemistry Reviews, 5, 49-58.

27. Shital Dixit, Aarati Karaba, Asaph Aharoni, Kurniawan R. Trijatmiko, M. Udaya Kumar, Andy

Pereira (2007). HARDY an Arabidopsis AP2/ERF-like transcription factor that improves water use

efficiency in rice. PNAS, 104, 15270-15275.

28. Ben Spitzer, Michal Moyal Ben Zvi, Marianna Ovadis, Elena Marhevka, Oren Barkai, Orit

Edelbaum, Ira Marton, Tania Masci, Michal Alon, Shai Morin, Ilana Rogachev, Asaph Aharoni and

Alexander Vainstein (2007). Reverse genetics of floral scent: application of TRV-based gene

silencing in petunia. Plant Physiology, 145: 1241-1250.

29. David Panikashvili, Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Tali Mandel, Tamar Yifhar, Rochus B. Franke,

René- Höfer, Lukas Schreiber, Joanne Chory and Asaph Aharoni (2007). The Arabidopsis

DESPERADO/AtWBC11 Transporter is Required for Cutin and Wax Excretion. Plant Physiology,

145, 1345-1360.

30. Samuel Bocobza, Avital Adato, Tali Mandel, Michal Shapira, Evgeny Nudler and Asaph Aharoni (2007). Riboswitch-Dependent Gene Regulation and its Evolution in the Plant Kingdom. Genes and

Development, 21 (22), 2874-2879.

31. Adaya Cohen, Samuel Bocobza, Isana Veksler, Idan Gabdank, Danny Barash, Asaph Aharoni, Michal Shapira and Klara Kedem (2008). Computational Identification of Three-Way Junctions in

Folded RNAs: A Case Study in Arabidopsis. In Silico Biology, 8, 105-120.

32. Markus Griesser, Thomas Hoffmann, Mari Luz Bellido, Carlo Rosati, Barbara Fink, Robert

Kurtzer, Asaph Aharoni, Juan Munoz-Blanco, and Wilfried Schwab (2008). Redirection of flavonoid

biosynthesis through the downregulation of an anthocyanidin glucosyltransferase in ripening

strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) fruit. Plant Physiology, 146(4),1528-1539.

33. Samuel Bocobza and Asaph Aharoni (2008). Switching the light on plant Riboswitches. Trends

in Plant Science, 13, 526-533.

34. Panikashvili David and Aharoni Asaph (2008). ABC-Type Transporters and Cuticle Assembly:

Linking Function to Polarity in Epidermis Cells. Plant Signaling & Behavior, Volume 3, issue 10.

35. Mintz-Oron Shira, Mandel Tali, Rogachev Ilana, Feldberg Liron, Lotan Ofra, Yativ Merav, Jetter

Reinhard, Venger Ilya, Adato Avital and Aharoni Asaph (2008). Gene Expression and Metabolism

in Developing Tomato Fruit Peel. Plant Physiology, 147, 823-851.

36. Kati Hanhineva, Ilana Rogachev, Harri Kokko, Shira Mintz-Oron, Ilya Venger, Sirpa Kärenlampi,

and Asaph Aharoni (2008). Non-targeted Analysis of Spatial Metabolite Composition in Strawberry

(Fragaria × ananassa) Flowers. Phytochemistry, 69, 2463-2481.


37. Sergey Malitsky, Eyal Blum, Hadar Less, Ilya Venger, Moshe Elbaz, Shai Morin, Yuval Eshed,

and Asaph Aharoni (2008). The "Inner" and "Outer" Circles of the Transcriptome and Metabolome

Effected by the Two Clades of Arabidopsis Glucosinolate Biosynthesis Regulators. Plant

Physiology, 148, 2021-2049.

38. Aaron Fait, Kati Hanhineva, Romina Belleggia, Nir Dai, Ilana Rogachev, Alisdair R. Fernie and

Asaph Aharoni (2008). Reconfiguration of the achene and receptacle metabolic networks during

strawberry fruit development. Plant Physiology, 148, 730-750.

39. Shai Nashilevitz, Cathy Melamed-Bessudo, Asaph Aharoni, Jens Kossmann, Shmuel Wolf, and

Avraham, A. Levy (2009). The LeGWD mutant uncovers the role of starch phosphorylation in pollen

development and germination in tomato. Plant Journal, 57, 1-13.

40. Hanhineva K, Soininen P, Anttonen MJ, Kokko H, Laatikainen, Rogachev, Aharoni A, Kärenlampi SO. (2009). Stilbene synthase gene transfer caused alterations in the phenylpropanoid

metabolism of transgenic strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa). The Journal of Experimental Botany,

60, 2093-2106.

41. Shira Mintz, Asaph Aharoni, Eytan Ruppin, Tomer Shlomi (2009). Network-based Prediction of

Enzyme Subcellular Localization. Bioinformatics, 15, 247-252.

42. Vered Tzin, Sergey Malitsky, Asaph Aharoni and Gad Galili (2009). Expression of a bacterial

bifunctional feedback insensitive chorismate mutase/prephenate dehydratase gene reveals novel

insights into the regulation of aromatic amino acids metabolism in Arabidopsis. Plant Journal, 60,

156-167.

43. Kati Hanhineva, Pasi Soininen, Mikko J Anttonen, Harri Kokko, Ilana Rogachev, Asaph Aharoni, Reino Laatikainen, and Sirpa Kärenlampi (2009). NMR and UPLC-qTOF-MS/MS characterization of

novel phenylethanol derivatives of phenylpropanoid glucosides from the leaves of strawberry

(Fragaria × ananassa cv. Jonsok). Phytochemical Analysis, 20, 353-364.

44. David Panikashvili, Jian Xin Shi, Lukas Schreiber and Asaph Aharoni (2009). The Arabidopsis

DCR encoding a soluble BAHD acyltransferase is required for cutin polyester formation and seed

hydration properties. Plant Physiology, 151, 1773-1789.

45. Liron Feldberg, Ilya Venger, Sergey Malitsky, Ilana Rogachev and Asaph Aharoni (2009).

DLEMMA: A new approach for the identification of differential metabolites and pathway discovery by

means of dual Isotope labelling and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Analytical

Chemistry, 81, 9257-9266.

46. Avital Adato, Tali Mandel, Shira Mintz-Oron, Ilya Venger, Dorit Levy, Merav Yativ, Eva

Domínguez, Zhonghua Wang, Ric CH De Vos, Reinhard Jetter, Lukas Schreiber, Antonio Heredia,

Ilana Rogachev, and Asaph Aharoni (2009). Fruit surface flavonoid accumulation in tomato is

controlled by an SlMYB12 regulated transcriptional network. PLoS Genetics, 5: e1000777.

47. Maxim Itkin, Heike Seybold, Dario Breitel, Ilana Rogachev, Sagit Meir and Asaph Aharoni (2009). The TOMATO AGAMOUS-LIKE 1 is a component of the fruit ripening regulatory network.

The Plant Journal, 60, 1081-1095.


48. David Panikashvili, Jian Xin Shi, Samuel Bocobza, Rochus Benni Franke, Lukas Schreiber and

Asaph Aharoni (2010). The DSO/ABCG11 transporter affects cutin and suberin metabolism in

Arabidopsis reproductive organs and roots. Molecular Plant, 3, 563-575.

49. Ayelet Bar-Akiva, Rinat Ovadia, Ilana Rogachev, Carmiya Bar-Or, Einat Bar, Zohar Freiman, Ada

Nissim-Levi, Natan Gollop, Efraim Lewinsohn, Asaph Aharoni, David Weiss, Hinanit Koltai and

Michal Oren-Shamir (2010). Metabolic networking in Brunfelsia calycina petals after flower opening.

Journal of Experimental Botany, 61, 1393-1403.

50. Shai Nashilevitz, Cathy Melamed-Bessudo, Yinon Izkovich, Ilana Rogachev, Sonia Osorio, Maxim

Itkin, Avital Adato, Ilya Pankratov, Joseph Hirschberg, Alisdair R. Fernie, Shmuel Wolf, Björn

Usadel, Avraham A. Levy, Dominique Rumeau and Asaph Aharoni (2010). The ORR gene links

plastid NAD(P)H dehydrogenase complex activity to carotenoid biosynthesis during tomato fruit

maturation. The Plant Cell, 22, 1977-1997.

51.Peleg Zvi, Saranga Yehoshua, Fahima Tzion, Aharoni Asaph, and Elbaum Rivka (2010). Genetic

control over silica deposition in wheat awns. Physiologia Plantarum, 140, 10-20.

52.Tadmor Y, Burger J, Yaakov I, Feder A, Libhaber SE, Portnoy V, Meir A, Tzuri G, Sa'ar U,

Rogachev I, Aharoni A, Abeliovich H, Schaffer AA, Lewinsohn E, Katzir N. (2010). Genetics of

flavonoid, carotenoid, and chlorophyll pigments in melon fruit rinds. Journal of Agriculture and Food

Chemistry, 58, 10722-10728.

53. Brodsky, L., Moussaieff, A., Shahaf, N., Aharoni, A., and Rogachev, I. (2010). Evaluation of

peak picking quality in LC-MS metabolomics data. Analytical Chemistry, 82, 9177-9187.

54.Asaph Aharoni and Gad Galili (2010). Metabolic engineering of the plant primary–secondary

metabolism interface. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 22: 1-6

55.David Panikashvili, Jian Xin Shi, Lukas Schreiber, Asaph Aharoni (2011). The Arabidopsis

ABCG13 transporter is required for flower cuticle secretion and patterning of the petal epidermis.

New Phytologist, 190: 113-124.

56. Annick Moing, Asaph Aharoni, Benoit Biais, Ilana Rogachev, Sagit Meir, Leonid Brodsky, J.

William Allwood, Alexander Erban, Warwick B. Dunn, Lorraine Kay, Sjaak de Koning, Ric C.H. de

Vos, Harry Jonker, Roland Mumm, Catherine Deborde, Michael Maucourt, Stéphane Bernillon,

Yves Gibon, Thomas H. Hansen, Søren Husted, Royston Goodacre, Joachim Kopka, Jan K.

Schjoerring, Dominique Rolin, Robert D. Hall (2011) Extensive metabolic cross talk in melon fruit

revealed 1 by spatial and developmental combinatorial metabolomics. New Phytologist, 190: 683-

96.

57. Hanhineva, Kati; Rogachev, Ilana; Aura, Anna-Marja; Aharoni, Asaph; Poutanen, Kaisa;

Mykkänen, Hannu (2011). Qualitative characterization of benzoxazinoid derivatives in whole grain

rye by LC-MS metabolite profiling. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 59: 921-927.

58. Sakurai N, Ara T, Ogata Y, Sano R, Ohno T, Sugiyama K, Hiruta A, Yamazaki K, Yano K, Aoki K,

Aharoni A, Hamada K, Yokoyama K, Kawamura S, Otsuka H, Tokimatsu T, Kanehisa M, Suzuki H,

Saito K, Shibata D (2010). KaPPA-View4: a metabolic pathway database for representation and


analysis of correlation networks of gene co-expression and metabolite co-accumulation and omics

data. Nucleic Acids Research, 39: D677-84.

59. Shulaev V… Aharoni A et al., (2011). The genome of woodland strawberry (Fragaria Vesca).

Nature Genetics, 43: 109-116.

60. Rosado A, Hicks GR, Norambuena L, Rogachev I, Meir S, Pourcel L, Zouhar J, Brown MQ,

Boirsdore MP, Puckrin RS, Cutler SR, Rojo E, Aharoni A, Raikhel NV. (2011). Sortin1-

hypersensitive mutants link vacuolar-trafficking defects and flavonoid metabolism in Arabidopsis

vegetative tissues. Chemistry and Biology, 25;18(2):187-97.

61. Jian Xin Shi, Sergey Malitsky, Sheron Oliveira, Caroline Branigan, Rochus Franke, Pierre Broun,

Lukas Schreiber, and Asaph Aharoni (2011). SHINE Transcription Factors Act Redundantly to

Pattern the Archetypal Surface of Arabidopsis Flower Organs. PLoS Genetics, 7(5):e1001388.

62. Vandoorn A, Bonaventure G, Rogachev I, Aharoni A, Baldwin IT (2011). JA-Ile signaling in

Solanum nigrum is not required for defense responses in nature. Plant Cell and the Environment,

Epub ahead of print.

63. Fernie AR, Aharoni A, Willmitzer L, Stitt M, Tohge T, Kopka J, Carroll AJ, Saito K, Fraser PD,

Deluca V (2011). Recommendations for reporting metabolite data. The Plant Cell, 23: 2477-2482.

64.Brand A, Borovsky Y, Meir S, Rogachev I, Aharoni A, Paran I. (2011). pc8.1, a major QTL for

pigment content in pepper fruit, is associated with variation in plastid compartment size. Planta,

[Epub ahead of print].

65.Itkin M, Rogachev I, Alkan N, Rosenberg T, Malitsky S, Masini L, Meir S, Iijima Y, Aoki K, de Vos

R, Prusky D, Burdman S, Beekwilder S, Aharoni A (2011). GLYCOALKALOID METABOLISM 1 is

Required for Steroidal Alkaloid Glycosylation and Prevention of Phytotoxicity in Tomato. The Plant

Cell, In Press.

66.Hanhineva K, Rogachev I, Aura A-M, Aharoni A, Poutanen K, Mykkänen H. (2011) Identification

of novel lignans in the whole grain rye bran by non-targeted LC-MS metabolite profiling.

Metabolomics, In Press.

67.Matas AJ, Yeats TH, Buda GJ, Zheng Y, Chatterjee S, Tohge T, Ponnala L, Adato A, Aharoni A,

Stark R, Fernie AR, Fei Z, Giovannoni JJ, Rose JK. (2011). Tissue- and Cell-Type Specific

Transcriptome Profiling of Expanding Tomato Fruit Provides Insights into Metabolic and Regulatory

Specialization and Cuticle Formation. The Plant Cell, In Press.

68.Shira Mintz-Oron, Sagit Meir, Sergey Malitsky, Eytan Ruppin, Asaph Aharoni*, Tomer Shlomi*

(2011). Reconstruction of Arabidopsis metabolic network models accounting for subcellular

compartmentalization and tissue-specificity. PNAS, In Press.

*Co-corresponding authors.

69. Eric D. Rogers, Terry Jackson, Arieh Moussaieff, Asaph Aharoni and Philip N. Benfey (2011).

Cell type-specific transcriptional profiling: implications for metabolite profiling. The Plant Journal , In

Press.


List of publications - Chapters in books and Proceedings

1. Vainstein, A., Ben-Meir, H., Zuker, A., Watad, A., Scovel, G., Aharoni A., and Ovadis, M.

(1995). Molecular markers and genetic transformation in the breeding of ornamentals. Acta Hort.

(Vainstein A. and Weiss D. eds.) 420: 65-67.

2. Zuker, A., Aharoni, A. and Vainstein, A. (1997). A highly efficient method for carnation

transformation. Acta Hort. (Altman A. and Ziv M. eds.) 447: 373-375.

3. Ovadis, M., Chernin, L., Tzfira, T., Canaan, V., Aharoni, A., Sakar, D. and Vainstein, A.

(1998). Transformation of tobacco and aspen plants with the ITA locus of an INCQ plasmid confers

resistance to Agrobacterium tumefaciens infection. In: Plant Biotechnology and in vitro Biology.

(Altman A., Izhar S., Ziv M. eds.), Kluwer Acad. Publish., Netherlands.

4. Ovadis, M., Zuker, A., Tzfira, T., Aharoni, A., Shklarman, E., Scovel, G., Itzhaki, H., Ben-

Meir, H., and Vainstein A. (1999). Generation of transgenic carnation plants with novel

characteristics by combining microprojectile bombardment with Agrobacterium tumefaciens

transformation. Plant biotechnology and In Vitro biology in the 21 st Century. Izhar S., Altman A.

and Ziv M. eds. pages 189-192.

5. Zuker, A., Tzfira, T., Aharoni, A., Shklarman, E., Ovadis, M., Itzhaki, H., Ben-Meir, H. and

Vainstein, A. (1999). Genetic engineering of carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.). In: Y. P. S. Bajaj

(Editor), Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg.

6. Asaph Aharoni and Ann P. O’Connell (2001). Use of DNA microarrays in the identification of

genes involved in strawberry flavor formation. In: J. F. Jackson, H. F. Linskens and R. B. Inman

(Editors), Molecular methods of plant analysis (Vol. 21), Analysis of taste and aroma, Springer-

Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg.

7. Asaph Aharoni and Ann P. O’Connell (2001). Identification of strawberry flavour related

genes by the use of DNA microarrays. In: S. M. Jain, D. S. Brar and B. S. Ahloowalia (Editors),

Molecular techniques in crop improvement, Kluwer Acad. Publish., Netherlands.

8. Teun w.j.m. van Herpen, Wilfried Schwab, Maarten a. Jongsma, Harro j. Bouwmeester,

Asaph Aharoni (2004). Altering Plant Terpenoid Metabolism: The Biosafety of Metabolic Changes.

Proceedings of the NATO ARW workshop- Genomics for Biosafety in Plant Biotechnology: New

Challenges. Pages 35-47. 15-19 October 2003, Bansco, Bulgaria.

9. HJ Bouwmeester, FWA Verstappen, A Aharoni, J Lucker, F Kappers, LLP Luckerhoff, M

Dicke, MA Jongsma (2003). Exploring multi-trophic plant-herbivore interactions for new crop

protection methods. Proceedings of the BCPC International Congress Crop Science and

Technology. Pages 1123-1134, Glasgow, Scotland.

10. Aharoni, A. (2004). Functional Genomics in Strawberry. Acta Hort. (ISHS) 649:29-33.


11. Aharoni, A. and Beekwilder J. (2004). Fruit Flavor Formation in Wild and Cultivated

Strawberry Proceedings of the 5th International Post-harvest Symposium, Verona, Italy. Acta Hort.

(ISHS) Volume 1, 233-236.

12.Asaph Aharoni, Ashok P. Giri, Francel W.A. Verstappen, Robert Sevenier, Maarten A. Jongsma,

Wilfried Schwab & Harro J. Bouwmeester (2004). Gain and loss of flavor and aroma compounds in

strawberry. Proceedings of the American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting, symposium Genetic

Engineering in Flavor Chemistry: Applications and Potentials, 2004, Philadelphia USA. ACS

proceedings book.

13. Asaph Aharoni, Joost Lücker and Harro J. Bouwmeester (2006). Metabolic Engineering of

Terpenoid Biosynthesis in Plants. Proceedings of the Workshop on Plant Secondary Metabolism,

2005, South-Korea.

14. J Lücker, J., Bouwmeester, H. J. and Aharoni, A. (2007). Chapter 9. Metabolic engineering

of terpenoid biosynthesis in plants. In: Applications of plant metabolic engineering, Verpoorte, R.;

Alfermann, A.W.; Johnson, T.S. (Eds.), Springer Verlag, ISBN: 9781402060304, pp. 350.

15. Tali Mandel, Ilana Rogachev, Ilya Venger, Shira Mintz-Oron, Asaph Aharoni and Avital

Adato (2009). The Ins and Outs of Tomato Fruit Peel Metabolome. Proceedings of the EUCARPIA

Fruit Section Meeting, September 2007, Zaragoza, Spain. Acta Horticulturae, Number 814. Vol. 2,

465-473.

16. Maxim Itkin and Asaph Aharoni (2008). Bio-engineering of natural products in plants. In:

Plant-derived natural products; Synthesis, function and application, Anne Osbourn and Virginia

Lanzotti, editors.

17. Hanhineva K, Soininen P, Anttonen MJ, Siljanen H, Kokko H, Laatikainen R, Rogachev I,

Aharoni A, Kärenlampi S: Stilbene synthase gene transfer resulted in silencing of endogenous

chalcone synthase in strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) and led to the identification of novel

phenylpropanoid glucosides. Proceedings of the XXIV International Conference on Polyphenols,

July 8-11, 2008, Salamanca, Spain. p-p. 321-322

18. Efraim Lewinsohn and Asaph Aharoni (2008). Examples of flavors from genetic engineering

of plants. In: Handbook of fruit flavors, Feng Chen and Leo Nollet, editors.

19. Kati Hanhineva and Asaph Aharoni (2009). Metabolomics in fruit development. In:

Molecular techniques for crop improvement, second edition, Springer, S. M. Jain, editor.

20. Ilana Rogachev and Asaph Aharoni (2009). UPLC-MS-based Metabolite Analysis in

Tomato. In: Plant Metabolomics part of "Methods in Molecular Biology" series. John Walker editor,

The Humana Press Inc.

21. Hanhineva, K., Anttonen, M. J., Kokko, H., Soininen, P., Laatikainen, R., Karenlampi, S.,

Rogachev, I., Aharoni. A. (2009). Stilbene synthase gene transfer resulted in down regulation of

endogenous chalcone synthase in strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) and led to the identification of

novel phenylpropanoid glucosides. Acta Horticulturae, 839 (Proceedings of the First International

Symposium on Biotechnology of Fruit Species, 2008, Volume 2), 673-679.


22. Kati Hanhineva, Sirpa Kärenlampi and Asaph Aharoni (2011). Recent advances in

strawberry metabolomics. In: Genes, Genomes and Genomics. Global Science Books, Ltd., UK.

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Patent Applications

1. Fruit Flavor Related Genes and Use Thereof (Filed- December 1999).

2. Terpene Synthase/cyclase and Olefin Synthase and Uses Thereof (Filed- February 2002)

3. Isoprenoid Synthases (Filed- August, 2003).

4. The SHINE Clade of Transcription Factors and Their Use (Filed- June 2005;

5. Method for Preventing Dehiscence and Altering Plant Lignification (Filed- July, 2005).

6. A Transgenic Plant having Enhanced Drought Tolerance (Filed- September, 2005)

7. Terpene Hydroxylation (Filed- October, 2005).

8. Transgenic Plants having Altered Levels of Aromatic Amino Acids and Metabolic Derivatives

(Filed- December, 2008).

9. Genes and Markers for the Detection and Modification of Phenylpropanoids, Particularly

Flavonoids, in Tomato Cultivars and Mutants (Filed- July, 2008).

10. Transgenic plants having altered DAHP synthase activity (Filed- March, 2010).

11. Use of Thiamin Pyrophosphate (TPP) Riboswitch to Obtain Vitamin B1 Enriched Food and Feed

crops (filed- September, 2010).

12. A Closure for Capillary Columns (filed- November, 2010).

13. Plants with altered glycoalkaloid levels (filed- December, 2010).


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