Mar 22
A Taste of the Negev
New York, New York
Region
Presentation
Date
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Location
Midtown Manhattan location provided upon registration.
Event Host
Featuring wine and olive oil from Israel’s Negev desert.
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Or contact Sarah Broad at [email protected] or 646-452-3703
Prof. Simon Barak is a senior lecturer at BGU’s French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands at the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research located at the Sde Boker Campus. His research focuses on identifying genes that allow plants to tolerate the harsh environmental stresses characteristic of arid regions. His team has found that by removing two different genes, the tolerance of a specific plant, Arabidopsis, to heat, salt and drought could be increased. An agreement signed between BGN Technologies, BGU’s technology transfer company and Bayer CropScience, will allow Prof. Barak’s team to identify additional genes that have an effect on making plants more “stress-resistant.”