ABED GERA

He is the Director of the “Plant Protection and Inspection Services”; and a senior scientist at the Department of Plant Pathology, the former head of the Department of Plant Virology and the former Director, Institute of Plant Protection, ARO, (2009-2014). He is a member of steering and evaluation committees. He has been instrumental in the studying natural resistance mechanism against plant viruses, the development and application of serological and molecular techniques for rapid diagnosis of plant virus and phytoplasma diseases. He developed practices and methodologies to obtain and produce high quality virus-free propagation material of horticultural and floricultural crops. He has coordinated many national and international research projects, workshops and symposia and published more than a hundred papers, reviews and book chapters