INTRODUCTION:

The research activities in the Agriculture and Plant Biotechnology group has two main focal domains :

I-  Increase the agriculture productivity in the Palestinian crops with involvment of engineering and biotechnology

II- Conservation and utilization of Palestinian wild plants with attention to the medicinally important plants

STAFF:

Dr. Rami Arafeh, group leader

Mr. Zaid Altaradeh, lab. technician

Ms. Faten Al-Amleh

Ms. Danya Tahboub

Mr. Muath Manasrah

Ms. Haneyyeh Aljubeh

Ms. Lina Shawar

Ms. Rawan Zghayyer

Ms. Bushra Sharabati

PROJECTS:

- Studying genetic polymorphism within comoon grape varieties in Palestine

- Enhancing grape productivity by genetic barcoding of 

- Genetic transformation of landrace cauliflower

- Production of secondary metabolites from Urginea maritima

PUBLICATIONS:

- Genetic Variation in Damaged Populations of Pistacia atlantica Desf

- Potential Anticancer Activity of Crude Ethanol, Ethyl Acetate, and Water Extracts of Ephedra foeminea on Human Osteosarcoma U2OS Cell Viability and Migration

- Antioxidants in the prevention and treatment of cancer

- Computerized Extraction of Morphological and Geometrical Features for Plants with Compound Leaves

- Molecular characterization of three common olive (Olea europaea L.) cultivars in Palestine using simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers.

- When do different C4 leaf anatomies indicate independent C4 origins? Parallel evolution of C4 leaf types in Camphorosmeae (Chenopodiaceae)