Allium Crop Science

Haim obtained his academic education in plant physiology and genetics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He worked as a Postdoctoral Scientist at The John Innes Institute (Norwich England) and at the Wageningen Agricultural University (Holland) before recruited as a staff member at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He spent three sabbaticals at Duke University Medical Centre, Department of Biochemistry. In addition to research, teaching, and supervision, Haim served as elected Head of the Department of Field and Vegetable Crops, elected Head of Faculty Research Committee, elected Faculty Dean and elected University Rector. His research interests include physiology of vegetable crops with special emphasis on flowering, setting and seed production; Physiology and potato breeding. Haim shared the idea and actual introduction of genes for long keeping in tomatoes, the development and introduction of cherry tomatoes as a standard commodity, and later that of cluster tomatoes. He headed a leading ream of plant breeders and released more than a hundred salad and cherry tomato hybrids, as well as short-day onion hybrids, short day seed propagated shallot hybrids, and currently he jointly leads a large-scale garlic breeding program aiming at seed propagated hybrid garlic. He supervised about 80 graduate students, published about 150 scientific papers, chapters in books and edited books on alliums.

• 1: 12 pages of colour plates 2: Evolution, Domestication, and Taxonomy, R M Fritsch, Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung, Gatersleben, Germany and N Friesen, Botanischer Garten der Universität, Osnabruck, Germany 3: Florogenesis, R Kamenetsky, The Volcani Center, Israel and H D Rabinowitch 4: Genome Organization in Allium, M J Havey, Agricultural Research Service - USDA, USA 5: Exploitation of Wild Relatives for the Breeding of Cultivated Allium species, C Kik, Wageningen University and Plant Research Center, The Netherlands. 6: Diversity, Fertility and Seed Production of Garlic, T Etoh, Kagoshima University, Japan and P W Simon, University of Wisconsin, USA 7: Genetic Transformation of Onions, C C Eady, New Zealand Institute for Crop & Food Research Limited, New Zealand 8: Doubled Haploid Onions, B Bohanec, Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Breeding, Slovenia 9: Molecular Markers in Allium, M Klaas, Germany and N Friesen 10: Agronomy of Onions, A D Bosch Serra, Universitat de Lleida, Spain and L Currah 11: Onion Pre- and Postharvest Considerations, I R Gubb, Fresh Produce Consultancy, Devon and H S MacTavish, ADAS, UK 12: Bacterial Diseases of Onion, G L Mark and J W Lorbeer, Cornell University, R D Gitaitis, University of Georgia, USA 13: Monitoring and Forecasting for Disease and Insect Attack in Onions and Allium Crops Within IPM Strategies, J W Lorbeer, T P Kuhar, and M P Hoffmann, Cornell University, USA 14: Virus Diseases in Garlic and the Propagation of Virus-Free Plants, R Salomon, The Volcani Center, Israel 15: Sulphur Compounds in Alliums in Relation to Flavour Quality, W M Randle, University of Georgia, USA and J E Lancaster, AgriFood Solutions Ltd., New Zealand 16: Health and Alliums, M Keusgen, University of Bonn, Germany 17: Onions in the Tropics: Cultivars and Country Reports, L Currah 18: Shallot (Allium cepa, Aggregatum group), H D Rabinowitch and R Kamenetsky, The Volcani Centre, Israel 19: Leek: Advances in Agronomy and Breeding, E Van Bockstaele and H De Clercq, Centre for Agricultural Research-Ghent (CLO-Gent), Belgium 20: Ornamental Alliums, R Kamenetsky and R Fritsch