Category Agriculture, Aquaculture, Fish Culture, Animal Sciences Keywords Spawning, Carp, Aquaculture Current development stage General list: TRL4 Technology validated in lab      Collaboration Opportunity Sponsored Research with an ...

  About the Start Up APIX Nutrition has been established by two of the worlds’ leading authorities on bee nutrition who seek to commercialize their work, and that of an international research team involving The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

Background Zeaxanthin is a carotenoid pigment that provides health benefits as a dietary anti-oxidant, and is also a preventive agent against degenerative diseases. Specifically, it is thought to inhibit the progression of age-related macular ...

Background Most passion fruit cultivars grown under subtropical climates bear fruit twice a year, in the summer and the winter. Peel color is either purple or yellow with yellow fruit being larger and very sour. Our Innovation We developed an ...

 Background Most passion fruit cultivars bear fruit twice a year: in the summer and the winter. Furthermore, each vine’s fruit ripens at different times causing the farmer to revisit the vine every 2 days to collect newly ripened fruit. Our ...

Background Eragrostis tef (tef) is an annual cereal grass that is mainly cultivated for its edible seeds in Ethiopia and Eritrea, where it is the most important staple crop. Additionally, tef is used as nutritious fodder to feed ruminating ...

Background 2,4-D is a herbicide widely used for eradicating broad leaf weeds with a worldwide market value of over $1 billion per year. Despite its success, this herbicide is not used in fields planted with dicots, such as soy, cotton, potatoes ...

Background Experimental archaeology is a field of research that studies ancient cultures by trying to reconstruct ancient lifestyles. Extensive evidence of wine and beer production in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Near East as early as the mid-4th ...

Our Innovation A transgenic plant that expresses genes of Chlorella Ohadii algae, and thus demonstrate significant resistance to photo damage  Prof. Kaplan’s research group has discovered C. Ohadii , a unique type of algae found to be ...

Background The Pilpel Seeds Company will primarily focus on providing superior and unique pepper seeds to the local and international markets. Utilizing 28 years of Dr. Yonatan Elkind’s research, together with the germplasm available at the ...

Dr. David Granot, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center Dr. Gilor Kelly, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center Keywords Crop Plants, Water Use efficiency (WUE) Current development stage The development is ...

Background The question of how to feed the worlds growing population is becoming increasingly important. By 2050, the population of the world is set to rise to 9 billion people and current food production rates will need to double in order to ...

Background The most common type of cannabinoids is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) which ensures a psychedelic high but also helps in relieving chronic pain and stimulates poor appetite. On the other hand, cannabidiol (CBD) as well as CBG and CBC ...

Background The development is an innovative technique to cost-effectively preserve and prolong shelf-life in crop-plants. A wide range of agricultural crops such as tomato, potato, eggplant and other Solanaceous species overcome oxidative ...

Our Innovation We have developed a non-toxic, ecologically-friendly anti-bacterial agent that prevents bacterial diseases in agricultural crops, including in fruit and vegetables – caused mainly by pathogenic bacteria. Such diseases are ...

Background Naturally occurring, unmodified fungi could be acting as biological pesticides No associated health or environmental problems Trials demonstrate control of citrus mites and grape powdery mildew, resulting in better quality and ...

Detects the fertility levels in newly-laid eggs and the gender of the embryo   Background The ability to determine the fertility level of a chicken egg and its gender significantly reduces costs of egg production. Currently, we are unable to ...

Yousef Najajreh, Al Quds University   Background A growing number of peoples worldwide are suffering from the health consequences of obesity. As for today, Only one drug is currently approved for long-treatment of obesity-the lipase ...

P. pastoris yeast enables abundant production of LH recombinant protein Background Cyprinid fish include the common carp, which is the food fish most widely produced by aquaculture worldwide, ornamental goldfish, and koi, costly fish that are ...

Genetic modification leading to increased day/nighttime scent production 10-fold   Background Breeding for other qualities has resulted in the loss of scent in many flowers and plants. Genetically enhancing production of scent compounds and ...