Recent Publications
Gressel, J. (1999) Tandem constructs; preventing the rise of superweeds. Trends in Biotechnology 17:361-366.
Ye, B. and J. Gressel (2000) Transient, oxidant-induced antioxidant transcript and enzyme levels correlate with greater oxidant-resistance in paraquat-resistant Conyza bonariensis. Planta 211:50-61.
Amsellem, Z., Y. Kleifeld, Z. Kerenyi, L. Hornok, Y. Goldwasser, and J. Gressel (2001) Isolation identification and activity of mycoherbicidal pathogens from juvenile broomrape plants Biological Control 21:274-284
Kanampiu, F. K., J. K. Ransom, D. Friesen, and J. Gressel (2002) Imazapyr and pyrithiobac movement in soil and from maize seed coats to control Striga in legume intercropping. Crop Protection 21:611-619.
Gressel, J., Molecular Biology of Weed Control (2002). Taylor and Francis, London, 520pp.
Cohen, B.A., Amsellem, Z., Maor, R., Sharon, A., and Gressel, J. (2002) Transgenically-enhanced expression of indole-3-acetic acid confers hypervirulence to plant pathogens. Phytopathology 92:590-596.
Gressel, J. (2004) Transgenic mycoherbicides; needs and safety considerations, Chapter 82 in D.K. Arora, ed. Handbook of Fungal Biotechnology, 2’nd ed., Dekker, New-York pp 549-564
Cohen, B.A., Amsellem, Z., Lev-Yadun, S., Gressel J. (2002). Infection of tubercles of the parasitic weed Orobanche aegyptiaca by mycoherbicidal Fusarium species. Annals of Botany 90:567-578.
Gressel, J., D. Michaeli,, V. Kampel, Z. Amsellem, and A Warshawsky (2002) Ultralow calcium requirements of fungi facilitate use of calcium regulating agents to suppress host calcium-dependent defenses, synergizing infection by a mycoherbicide. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 50:6353-6360
Amsellem, Z., B.A. Cohen, and J. Gressel (2002) Engineering hypervirulence in an inundative mycoherbicidal fungus for efficient weed control. Nature Biotechnology 20:1035-1039.
Gressel, J. and G. Ehrlich (2002) Universal inheritable barcodes for identifying organisms. Trends in Plant Science 7: 542-544.
Kanampiu, F. K., V. Kabambe, C. Massawe, L. Jasi, J. K. Ransom, D. Friesen, and J. Gressel. (2003) Multisite, multi-season field tests demonstrate that herbicide seed-coating herbicide-resistance maize controls Striga spp. and increases yields. Crop Protection 22:697-706.
Wang, T., Y. Li, Y. Shi, X. Reboud, H. Darmency, J. Gressel (2004) Low frequency transmission of a plastid-encoded trait in Setaria italica. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 108:315-320.
Gressel, J. and A. Zilberstein (2003) Let them eat (GM) straw. Trends in Biotechnology 21:525-530.
Al-Ahmad, H.I., S. Galili and J. Gressel (2004) Tandem constructs to mitigate transgene persistence: tobacco as a model. Molecular Ecology 13:697-710
Gressel, J., A. Hanafi, G. Head, W. Marasas, A. B. Obilana, J. Ochanda, T. Souissi, G. Tzotzos. (2004) Major heretofore intractable biotic constraints to African food security that may be amenable to novel biotechnological solutions. Crop Protection 23:661-689
Gressel, J., ed. (2005) Crop Ferality and Volunteerism, CRC Press, Boca-Raton
Gressel, J The challenges of ferality. in Gressel, J., ed. (2005) Crop Ferality and Volunteerism. CRC Press, Boca-Raton. pp. 1-7
Gressel, J. (2004) Two choices for agchem/agbiotech industries: the only way to go is down. Outlooks on Pest Management 209-210
Al-Ahmad, H., S. Galili, and J. Gressel (2005) Poor competitive fitness of transgenically mitigated tobacco in competition with the wild type in a replacement series. Planta 222:372-385
Rotteveel, T., Al-Ahmad, H. and Gressel, J. (2006) Assessing and containing or mitigating biosafety risks of transgenic and non-transgenic phytoremediating plants. In M. Macková, D.N. Dowling and T. Macek, eds. Phytoremediation and Rhizoremediation, Focus on Biotechnology, Vol. 6, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 259-284.
Weissmann, S., M. Feldman, and J. Gressel (2005) Sporadic inter–generic DNA introgression from wheat into wild Aegilops spp. Molecular Biology and Evolution 22:2055-2062
Al-Ahmad H., Dwyer J., Moloney M., and Gressel J. (2006) Mitigation of establishment of Brassica napus transgenes in volunteers using a tandem construct containing a selectively unfit gene. Plant Biotechnology Journal 4:7-21.
Al-Ahmad H., and Gressel J. (2006) Mitigation using a tandem construct containing a selectively unfit gene precludes establishment of Brassica napus transgenes in hybrids and backcrosses with weedy Brassica rapa Plant Biotechnology Journal 4:23-33
Gressel J. (2005) Problems in qualifying and quantifying assumptions in plant protection models: Resultant simulations can be mistaken by a factor of million. Crop Protection 24 1007 –1015
Valverde, B.E, and J. Gressel (2005) Implications and containment of gene flow from herbicide-resistant rice (Oryza sativa). Proc. Asian Pacific Weed Science Society, Agricultural Publishing House, Ho-Chi Minh City, pp. 63-84
Gressel, J. (2007) Failsafe mechanisms for preventing gene flow and organism dispersal of enhanced microbial biocontrol agents in M. Vurro and J. Gressel, eds. Novel Biotechnologies for Biocontrol Agent Enhancement and Management, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands pp. 353-362
Kanampiu, F., A Diallo, M Burnet, H Karaya and J Gressel. (2007) Success with the low biotech of seed-coated imidazolinone-resistant maize in Ejeta, G. and J. Gressel (eds) Integrating New technologies for Striga control: Ending the witch-hunt? pp. 145-158. World Scientific, Singapore.
Gressel, J., S. Meir, Y. Herschkovitz, H. Al-Ahmad, B. Olubukola and Z. Amsellem (2007) Transgenic biocontrol agents to overcome evolutionary barriers? in Ejeta, G. and J. Gressel (eds) Integrating New Technologies for Striga Control: Ending the Witch-hunt? pp. 313-323. World Scientific, Singapore.
Vurro, M. and J. Gressel, eds. (2007) Novel Biotechnologies for Biocontrol Agent Enhancement and Management, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 384 pp.
Ejeta, G. and J. Gressel (eds) (2007) Integrating New Technologies for Striga Control: Ending the Witch-hunt. World Scientific, Singapore. 345 pp.
Gressel, J. (2008) Genetic Glass Ceilings - Transgenics for Crop Biodiversity, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (in press)
