Publications

  1. Feldman, M. and Levy, A.A., Fahima, T., and A. Korol (2012). Genomic asymmetry in allopolyploid plants: wheat as a model. J. Exp. Botany 63: in press

  2. Melamed-Bessudo, C., and Levy, A.A. (2012). Deficiency in DNA methylation increases meiotic crossover rates in euchromatic but not in heterochromatic regions in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109, E981-988.

  3. Samach, A., Melamed-Bessudo, C., Avivi-Ragolski, N., Pietrokovski, S., and Levy, A.A. (2011). Identification of Plant RAD52 Homologs and Characterization of the Arabidopsis thaliana RAD52-Like Genes. Plant Cell 23, 4266-4279.

  4. Even-Faitelson, L., Samach, A., Melamed-Bessudo, C., Avivi-Ragolsky, N., Levy, A.A. (2011) Localized egg-cell expression of effector proteins for targeted modification of the Arabidopsis genome. The Plant Journal, 68, 929–937

  5. Pecinka, A., Fang, W., Rehmsmeier, M., Levy, A.A. and Mittelsten Scheid, O. (2011) Polyploidization increases meiotic recombination frequency in Arabidopsis. BMC Biol, 9, 24.

  6. Kenan-Eichler, M., Leshkowitz, D., Tal, L., Noor, E., Melamed-Bessudo, C., Feldman, M. and Levy, A.A. (2011) Wheat Hybridization and Polyploidization Results in Deregulation of small RNAs. Genetics. 188: 263–272.

  7. Nashilevitz, S., Melamed-Bessudo, C., Izkovich, Y., Rogachev, I., Osorio, S., Itkin, M., Adato, A., Pankratov, I., Hirschberg, J., Fernie, A.R., Wolf, S., Usadel, B., Levy, A.A., Rumeau, D. and Aharoni, A. (2010) An orange ripening mutant links plastid NAD(P)H dehydrogenase complex activity to central and specialized metabolism during tomato fruit maturation. Plant Cell, 22, 1977-1997

  8. Feldman, M. and Levy, A.A. (2009) Genome evolution in allopolyploid wheat--a revolutionary reprogramming followed by gradual changes. J Genet Genomics, 36, 511-518.

  9. Tirosh, I., Reikhav, S., Levy*, A.A. and Barkai*, N. (2009) Gene expression divergence between related yeast species and its rewiring in their hybrid, Science, 324, 659-662 *(both corresponding authors)

  10. Nashilevitz, S., Melamed-Bessudo, C., Aharoni, A., Kossmann, J., Wolf, S., and Levy, A.A. (2009) LeGWD mutants establish the role of starch phosphorylation on pollen development and germination, The Plant Journal, 57, 1-13

  11. Elbaum, R., Melamed-Bessudo, C., Tuross, N., Levy, A. A., Weiner, S., (2009) New methods to isolate organic materials from silicified phytoliths reveal fragmented glycoproteins but no DNA, Quaternary International, 193, 11-19.

  12. Klutstein, M., Shaked, H., Sherman, A., Avivi-Ragolsky, N., Shema, E., Zenvirth, D., Levy, A.A. and Simchen, G. (2008) Functional conservation of the yeast and Arabidopsis RAD54-like genes. Genetics 178, 2389-2397.

  13. Xu, G.H., Chague, V., Melamed-Bessudo, C., Kapulnik, Y., Jain, A., Raghothama, K.G., Levy, A.A. and Silber, A. (2007) Functional characterization of LePT4: a phosphate transporter in tomato with mycorrhiza-enhanced expression. Journal of Experimental Botany 58, 2491-2501.

  14. Gressel, J. and Levy, A.A. (2006) Agriculture: The selector of improbable mutations. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103:12215-12216.

  15. Shaked, H., Avivi-Ragolsky, N. and Levy, A.A. (2006) Involvement of the Arabidopsis SWI2/SNF2 Chromatin Remodeling Gene Family in DNA Damage Response and Recombination. Genetics 173, 985-994.

  16. de Martino, G., Pan, I., Emmanuel, E., Levy, A. and Irish, V.F. (2006) Functional analyses of two tomato APETALA3 genes demonstrate diversification in their roles in regulating floral development. Plant Cell 18, 1833-1845.

  17. Emmanuel E., Yehuda, E., Melamed-Bessudo, C., Avivi-Ragolski, N. and Levy, A.A. (2006) The role of AtMSH2 in homologous recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana. EMBO report 7:100-105.

  18. Elbaum, R., Melamed-Bessudo, C., Boaretto, E., Galili, E., Lev-Yadun, S., Levy, A.A. and Weiner, S. (2006) Ancient Olive DNA in Pits: Preservation, Amplification and Sequence Analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science 33: 77-88.

  19. Trainin, T., Lipsky, A., Levy, A.A. and Holland, D. (2005) Prolonged somatic transposition in citrus: The autonomous Ac transposable element remains active in the citrus genome for several years. J Am Soc Hortic Sci 130, 95-101.

  20. Shaked, H., Melamed-Bessudo, C. and Levy, A.A. (2005) High frequency gene targeting in Arabidopsis plants expressing the yeast RAD54 gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102: 12265-69.

  21. Ayal, S., Ophir, R. and Levy, A.A. (2005). Genomics of tetraploid wheat domestication. Memorial issue #100, Wheat Information Service, K.M. Foundation, ed (Yokohama), pp. 185-203.

  22. Nagy, R., Karandashov, V., Chague, V., Kalinkevich, K., Tamasloukht, M., Xu, G., Jakobsen, I., Levy, A.A., Amrhein, N. and Bucher, M. (2005) The characterization of novel mycorrhiza-specific phosphate transporters from Lycopersicon esculentum and Solanum tuberosum uncovers functional redundancy in symbiotic phosphate transport in solanaceous species. Plant Journal 42, 236-250.

  23. Melamed-Bessudo, C., Yehuda, E., Stuitje, A.R. and Levy, A.A. (2005) A new seed-based assay for meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis. Plant Journal, 43, 458-466.

  24. Feldman, M. and Levy, A.A. (2005) Allopolyploidy--a shaping force in the evolution of wheat genomes. Cytogenet Genome Res 109, 250-258.

  25. Vogg, G., Fischer, S., Leide, J., Emmanuel, E., Jetter, R., Levy, A.A. and Riederer, M. (2004) Tomato fruit cuticular waxes and their effects on transpiration barrier properties: functional characterization of a mutant deficient in a very-long-chain fatty acid beta-ketoacyl-CoA synthase. J Exp Bot 55, 1401-1410.

  26. Opperman, R., Emmanuel, E. and Levy, A.A. (2004) The effect of sequence divergence on recombination between direct repeats in Arabidopsis. Genetics 168, 2207-2215.

  27. Levy, A.A. and Feldman, M. (2004) Genetic and epigenetic reprogramming of the wheat genome upon allopolyploidization. Proc. of the Linnean Society 82, 607-613.

  28. Kashkush, K., Feldman, M. and Levy, A.A. (2003) Transcriptional activation of retrotransposons alters the expression of adjacent genes in wheat. Nature Genet. 33, 102-106.

  29. Downie, A.B., Zhang, D.Q., Dirk, L.M.A., Thacker, R.R., Pfeiffer, J.A., Drake, J.L., Levy, A.A., Butterfield, A., Buxton, J.W. and Synder, J.C. (2003) Communication between the maternal testa and the embryo and/or endosperm affect testa attributes in tomato. Plant Physiology 133, 145-160.

  30. David-Schwartz, R., Gadkar, V., Wininger, S., Bendov, R., Galili, G., Levy, A.A. and Kapulnik, Y. (2003) Isolation of a premycorrhizal infection (pmi2) mutant of tomato, resistant to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonization. Mol Plant Microbe Interaction 16, 382-388.

  31. Ozkan, H., Levy, A.A. and Feldman, M. (2002) Rapid differentiation of homeologous chromosomes in newly-formed allopolyploid wheat. Israel J Plant Sci 50, S65-S76.

  32. Levy, A.A. and Feldman, M. (2002) The impact of polyploidy on grass genome evolution. Plant Physiology 130, 1587-1593.

  33. Kashkush, K., Feldman, M. and Levy, A.A. (2002) Gene loss, silencing and activation in a newly synthesized wheat allotetraploid. Genetics 160, 1651-1659.

  34. Emmanuel, E. and Levy, A.A. (2002) Tomato mutants as tools for functional genomics. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 5, 112-117.

  35. Shaked, H., Kashkush, K., Ozkan, H., Feldman, M. and Levy, A.A. (2001) Sequence elimination and cytosine methylation are rapid and reproducible responses of the genome to wide hybridization and allopolyploidy in wheat. Plant Cell 13, 1749-1759.

  36. Rubin, E., Lithwick, G. and Levy, A.A. (2001) Structure and evolution of the hAT transposon superfamily. Genetics 158, 949-957.

  37. Ozkan, H., Levy, A.A. and Feldman, M. (2001) Allopolyploidy-induced rapid genome evolution in the wheat (Aegilops-Triticum) group. Plant Cell 13, 1735-1747.

  38. Hohn, B., Levy, A.A. and Puchta, H. (2001) Elimination of selection markers from transgenic plants. Curr Opin Biotechnol 12, 139-143.

  39. David-Schwartz, R., Badani, H., Smadar, W., Levy, A.A., Galili, G. and Kapulnik, Y. (2001) Identification of a novel genetically controlled step in mycorrhizal colonization: plant resistance to infection by fungal spores but not extra-radical hyphae. Plant Journal 27, 561-569.

  40. Meissner, R., Chague, V., Zhu, Q., Emmanuel, E., Elkind, Y. and Levy, A.A. (2000) A high throughput system for transposon tagging and promoter trapping in tomato. Plant Journal 22, 265-274.

  41. Gorbunova, V., Avivi-Ragolski, N., Shalev, G., Kovalchuk, I., Abbo, S., Hohn, B. and Levy, A.A. (2000b) A new hyperrecombinogenic mutant of Nicotiana tabacum. Plant Journal 24, 601-611.

  42. Gorbunova, V., Ramos, C., Hohn, B. and Levy, A.A. (2000a) A nuclear protein that binds specifically to several maize transposons is not essential for Ds1 excision. Mol Gen Genet 263, 492-497.

  43. Gorbunova, V. and Levy, A.A. (2000) Analysis of extrachromosomal Ac/Ds transposable elements. Genetics 155, 349-359.

  44. Gorbunova, V. and Levy, A.A. (1999) How plants make ends meet: DNA double-strand break repair. Trends Plant Sci 4, 263-269.

  45. Shalev, G., Sitrit, Y., Avivi-Ragolski, N., Lichtenstein, C. and Levy, A.A. (1999) Stimulation of homologous recombination in plants by expression of the bacterial resolvase ruvC. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 96, 7398-7402.

  46. Fridlender, M., Sitrit, Y., Shaul, O., Gileadi, O. and Levy, A.A. (1998) Analysis of the Ac promoter: structure and regulation. Mol Gen Genet 258, 306-314.

  47. Shalev, G. and Levy, A.A. (1997) The maize transposable element Ac induces recombination between the donor site and an homologous ectopic sequence. Genetics 146, 1143-1151.

  48. Rubin, E. and Levy, A.A. (1997) Abortive gap repair: the underlying mechanism for Ds elements formation. Mol. Cell Biol. 17, 6294-6302.

  49. Meissner, R., Jacobson, Y., Melamed, S., Levyatuv, S., Shalev, G., Ashri, A., Elkind, Y. and Levy, A.A. (1997) A new model system for Tomato Genetics. Plant Journal 12, 1465-1472.

  50. Gorbunova, V. and Levy, A.A. (1997b) Circularized Ac/Ds transposons: formation, structure and fate. Genetics 145, 1161-1169

  51. Gorbunova, V. and Levy, A.A. (1997a) Non-homologous DNA end joining in plant cells is associated with deletions and filler DNA insertions. Nucleic Acids Res 25, 4650-4657.

  52. Feldman, M., Liu, B., Segal, G., Abbo, S., Levy, A.A. and Vega, J.M. (1997) Rapid elimination of low-copy DNA sequences in polyploid wheat: a possible mechanism for differentiation of homoeologous chromosomes. Genetics 147, 1381-1387.

  53. Baburek, I., Stiburkova, B., Levy, A.A. and Angelis, K.J. (1997) Tobacco cotyledons: A novel system for testing mutagenicity in plants. Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis 30, 91-93.

  54. Rubin, E. and Levy, A.A. (1996) A Mathematical model and a computerized simulation of PCR using complex templates. Nucl. Acids Res. 24, 3538-3545.

  55. Fridlender, M., Lev-Yadun, S., Baburek, I., Angelis, K. and Levy, A.A. (1996b) Cell divisions in cotyledons after germination: localization, time course and utilization for a mutagenesis assay. Planta 199, 307-313.

  56. Fridlender, M., Harrison, K., Jones, J.D.G. and Levy, A.A. (1996a) Repression of the Ac transposase gene promoter by Ac transposase. Plant Journal 9, 911-917.

  57. Vega, J.M., Abbo, S., Feldman, M. and Levy, A.A. (1994) Chromosome painting in plants: In situ hybridization with a DNA probe from a specific microdissected chromosome arm of common wheat. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91, 12041-12045.

  58. Andre, C., Levy, A. and Walbot, V. (1992) Small repeated sequences and the structure of plant mitochondrial genomes. Trends Genet 8, 128-132.

  59. Felsenburg, T., Levy, A.A., Galili, G. and Feldman, M. (1991) Polymorphism of High-Molecular-Weight Glutenins in Wild Tetraploid Wheat - Spatial and Temporal Variation in a Native Site. Israel J Bot 40, 451-479.

  60. Levy, A.A., Andre, C.P. and Walbot, V. (1991) Analysis of a 120-Kilobase Mitochondrial Chromosome in Maize. Genetics 128, 417-424.

  61. Levy, A.A. and Walbot, V. (1991) Molecular analysis of the loss of somatic instability in the bz2::mu1 allele of maize. Mol Gen Genet 229, 147-151.

  62. Levy, A.A. and Walbot, V. (1990) Regulation of the timing of transposable element excision during maize development. Science 248, 1534-1537.

  63. Levy, A.A., Britt, A.B., Luehrsen, K.R., Chandler, V.L., Warren, C. and Walbot, V. (1989) Developmental and genetic aspects of Mutator excision in maize. Devel. Genetics 10, 520-531.

  64. Levy, A.A. and Feldman, M. (1989e) Genetics of Morphological Traits in Wild Wheat, Triticum-turgidum var dicoccoides. Euphytica 40, 275-281.

  65. Levy, A.A. and Feldman, M. (1989d) Intra-Population and Inter-Population Variations in Grain Protein Percentage in Wild Tetraploid Wheat, Triticum-turgidum var dicoccoides. Euphytica 42, 251-258.

  66. Levy, A.A. and Feldman, M. (1989c) Location of Genes for High Grain Protein Percentage and Other Quantitative Traits in Wild Wheat Triticum-turgidum var dicoccoides. Euphytica 41, 113-122

  67. Levy, A.A. and Feldman, M. (1989a) Genetics of morphological traits in wild wheat, Triticum turgidum var. dicoccoides. Euphytica 40, 275-281.

  68. Manisterski, J., Segal, A., Levy, A.A. and Feldman, M. (1988) Evaluation of Israeli Aegilops and Agropyron Species for Resistance to Wheat Leaf Rust. Plant Disease 72, 941-944.

  69. Levy, A.A., Braun, D. and Feldman, M. (1988b) Evaluation of the Effect of Alien Chromosomes on Quantitative Traits in Common Wheat. Genome 30, 265-268.

  70. Levy, A.A., Galili, G. and Feldman, M. (1988a) Polymorphism and Genetic-Control of High Molecular-Weight Glutenin Subunits in Wild Tetraploid Wheat Triticum-turgidum var dicoccoides. Heredity 61, 63-72.

  71. Levy, A.A. and Feldman, M. (1988) Ecogeographical distribution of HMW glutenin alleles in populations of the wild tetraploid wheat Triticum turgidum var. dicoccoides. Theoretical Applied and Genetics 75, 651-658.

  72. Zaccai, M., Pinthus, M.J. and Levy, A.A. (1987) The Effect of the Rht1 Gene on Grain Protein-Content in Tetraploid Wheat Triticum-turgidum. J Cereal Sci 6, 27-32.

  73. Levy, A.A. and Feldman, M. (1987) Increase in Grain Protein Percentage in High-Yielding Common Wheat Breeding Lines by Genes from Wild Tetraploid Wheat. Euphytica 36, 353-359.

  74. Galili, G., Levy A. A., and Feldman, M (1986). Gene dosage compensation of endosperm proteins in hexaploid wheat Triticum aestivum. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83: 6524-6528.

  75. Levy, A. A., and Feldman, M (1985) Genotypic and fertilization effects on grain protein content in wild and cultivated tetraploid wheats. Genetica Agraria 39, 293-302.

  76. Levy, A.A., Galili, G. and Feldman, M. (1985) The Effect of Additions of Aegilops-Longissima Chromosomes on Grain Protein in Common Wheat. Theor. Appl. Genet. 69, 429-435.

  77. Millet, E., Levy, A.A., Avivi, L., Zamir, R. and Feldman, M. (1984) Evidence for Maternal Effect in the Inheritance of Grain Protein in Crosses between Cultivated and Wild Tetraploid Wheats. Theor. Appl. Genet. 67, 521-524.

  78. Pinthus, M.J. and Levy, A.A. (1984) Genotypic Effects of Height on Grain-Yield of Triticum aestivum L Spring Wheat. Z Pflanzenzucht 93, 49-55.

  79. Pinthus, M.J. and Levy, A.A. (1983) The relationship between Rht1 and Rht2 dwarfing genes and grain weight in Triticum aestivum L. spring wheat. Theor. Appl. Genet. 66, 153-157.