
Position Title
Professor
Position Title
Professor
Unit
Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Unit
Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
1119 Plant Reproductive Biology Bldg.
Bio
Grad Group Affiliations
- Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
- Horticulture and Agronomy
- Plant Biology
Specialties / Focus
- Environmental and Integrative Biology
- Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Genomics
Courses
- BIT 161B Biotechnology, Spring
- PBI 200C ion transport and stress signaling, Spring
Labs
- PRB 1201
Honors and Awards
- 2003 - Alexander von Humboldt Prize
- 2008 - Fellow, Japan Society Promotion of Science
- 2011 - Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- 2012 - Loomis Distinguished Lecturer, Iowa State University
- 2013 - RAICES Prize to Scientific Development and Cooperation, Ministry of Sciences and Technology, Argentina.
- 2013 - REDBIO-FAO International Prize, Latin American Biotechnology Network.
- 2014 - Fellow, American Society of Plant Biology
Professional Societies
- American Society of Plant Biologists
- Society for Experimental Biology
- American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Degrees
- Ph.D. - Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of California, Berkeley - Bioenergetics
Publications
Shaar-Moshe L, Blumwald E, Peleg Z (2017). Unique Physiological and Transcriptional Shifts under Combinations of drought, heat and salinity. Plant Physiol. 174:421-434.
Sade N, Ummajkitikorn K, Rubio Wilhelmi MM, Wright M, Wang S, Blumwald, E (2017). Delaying chloroplast turnover increases water-deficit stress tolerance through the enhancement of nitrogen assimilation in rice. J. Exp. Bot. in press. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erx247
Farcuh M, Li B, Rivero R, Sadka A, Blumwald E (2017). Sugar metabolism reprograming in a non-climacteric bud mutant of a climacteric plum fruit. J. Exp. Bot. 68:5813-5828.