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Agricultural Research Organization (Volcani Center) (ARO)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), the research arm of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, is responsible for most of the agricultural research conducted in Israel. This research aims to improve existing agricultural production systems and to introduce new products, processes and equipment, thereby ensuring the basis of Israel's future agriculture.
The ARO has an extensive research infrastructure that supports both basic and applied research, conducted by more than 200 Ph.D. scientists and 300 engineers and technicians. These workers are organized into six institutes located on the main campus at Bet Dagan, and in two regional research centers in the north and south of the country.
Activities
- Research
Subordinate institutions
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- HC-Pro as a tool to study silencing suppressor-mediated induction of disease symptoms in plants
- Improving lamb meat and milk production for fat-tail sheep of the Middle East through breeding
- Interaction and control of mammalian ectoparasites using Entomopathogenic Fungi (EF)
- Locating exotic genes that control agronomic traits under stress in a wild barley nested association mapping (NAM) population
- Pathogenic and endophytic interaction between Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis and tomato
- Role of auxin in tomato flower organs and fruit during development under high temperature conditions
Contact
Agricultural Research Organization (Volcani Center)
(ARO)
P.O.B. 6
50250 Bet-Dagan
Israel
Israel
Phone: +972-3-9683226
