Dr. Ofir Degani : Phytopathology, Biological Control

Sustained Release of Azoxystrobin from Clay Carriers for the Management of Maize Late Wilt Disease

Degani, O., Abramovici, A., Levi-Lion, A., Demenchuk, D., Hadad, A., & Dimant, E.
2025 , Journal of Fungi. 2026; 12(1):21.

Mixed Fungal Strains Challenge Host Resistance: Insights into Magnaporthiopsis maydis Pathogenicity in Maize

Shofman, G. and Degani, O.
2025 , Frontiers in Microbiology 16.

Antagonistic Interactions between Maize Seeds Microbiome Species and the Late Wilt Disease Agent, Magnaporthiopsis maydis

Degani Ofir, Aseel Ayoub, Elhanan Dimant, and Asaf Gordani
2024 , Fungal Biology 5: 1436759. doi:10.3389/ffunb.2024.1436759

Bio-Hydrolysis of Cotton Fibers’ Cuticle Enhanced by Synergism between Cutinase and Pectinase

Ofir Degani
2024 , In Advances in Biology. Volume 7, Charles D. Grant (Editor), Nova Science Publishers, Inc. NY, USA, Chapter 4, pp 131-162.

Impact of Fusarium Species Composition and Incidence on Onion Basal Rot in Northeastern Israel

Degani Ofir, Elhanan Dimant, and Eliyahu Margalit
2024 , Horticulturae. 2024; 10(4):373. doi:10.3390/horticulturae10040373

Integrated Management of the Cotton Charcoal Rot Disease Using Biological Agents and Chemical Pesticides

Degani Ofir, Assaf Chen, Elhanan Dimant, Asaf Gordani, Tamir Malul, and Onn Rabinovitz
2024 , Journal of Fungi 2024, 10, (4), 250. doi: 10.3390/jof10040250

Late Wilt of Maize—The Pathogen, the Disease, Current Status, and Future Perspective

Degani O.
2024 , Plant Pathogen Interaction, In: Verma, P.K., Mishra, S., Srivastava, V., Mehrotra, S. (eds). 2024, chapter 4, 89-118, Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4890-1_4

The Cotton Charcoal Rot Causal Agent, Macrophomina phaseolina, Biological and Chemical Control

Degani, O., Gordani, A., Dimant, E., Chen, A., & Rabinovitz, O.
2023 , Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023, 14, 1272335.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1272335

A Green Solution to Maize Late Wilt Disease

Degani O.
2023 , Trichoderma: Taxonomy, Biodiversity and Applications. Nova Science Publishers, Inc. (2023), chapter 3. 65-82.

Molecular Real-Time PCR Monitoring of Onion Fusarium Basal Rot Chemical Control

Dimant, Elhanan, and Ofir Degani
2023 , Journal of Fungi, 2023, 9, no. 8: 809.
https://doi.org/10.3390/jof9080809

Real-time PCR early detection of Trichoderma treatments efficiency against cotton charcoal rot disease

Ofir Degani, Paz Becher, and Asaf Gordani
2023 , Journal of Natural Pesticide Research
Volume 4, June 2023, 100027
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.napere.2023.100027

Integrated Biological and Chemical Control against the Maize Late Wilt Agent Magnaporthiopsis maydis

Gordani, Asaf, Bayan Hijazi, Elhanan Dimant, and Ofir Degani.
2023 , Soil Systems, 2023, 7, no. 1: 1.
https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems7010001

Cultivars Resistance Assay for Maize Late Wilt Disease

Degani, Ofir, Ran Yifa, Asaf Gordani, Paz Becher, and Assaf Chen.
2022 , Biology 2022, 11, 1854.
https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11121854

Prevention and Control of Fusarium spp., the Causal Agents of Onion (Allium cepa) Basal Rot

Degani, Ofir, Elhanan Dimant, Asaf Gordani, Shaul Graph, and Eliyahu Margalit
2022 , Horticulturae. 2022; 8(11):1071.
https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae8111071

Aggressive strains of the late wilt fungus of corn exist in Israel in mixed populations and can specialize in disrupting growth or plant health

Galia Shofman, Marlen Bahouth and Ofir Degan
2022 , Fungal Biology, 126(11-12), 793-808, 2022
doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2022.10.003

New Antifungal Compound, 6-Pentyl-α-Pyrone, against the Maize Late Wilt Pathogen, Magnaporthiopsis maydis

Ofir Degani and Asaf Gordani
2022 , Agronomy 2022, 12, 2339.
https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12102339

Crop Rotation and Minimal Tillage Selectively Affect Maize Growth Promotion under Late Wilt Disease Stress

Degani, Ofir, Asaf Gordani, Paz Becher, Assaf Chen, and Onn Rabinovitz.
2022 , Journal of Fungi. 2022; 8(6):586.

Pathogenic Interactions between Macrophomina phaseolina and Magnaporthiopsis maydis in Mutually Infected Cotton Sprouts

Degani, Ofir, Paz Becher, and Asaf Gordani
2022 , Agriculture 2022, 12(2), 255
https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12020255

Remote evaluation of maize cultivars susceptibility to late wilt disease caused by Magnaporthiopsis maydis

Ofir Deganiת Assaf Chen, Shlomit Dor, Valerie Orlov-Levin, Moran Jacob, Gil Shoshani & Onn Rabinovitz
2022 , Journal of Plant Pathology, 104:509–525, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/s42161-022-01039-9

Control Strategies to Cope with Late Wilt of Maize

2022 , Pathogens 2022, 11, 13.
https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11010013

A Review: Late Wilt of Maize—The Pathogen, the Disease, Current Status, and Future Perspective

2021 , Journal of Fungi, 2021; 7(11):989

Early detection of soil-borne diseases in field crops via remote sensing

Chen A., Jacob M., Shoshani G., Dafny-Yelin M., Degani O. and Rabinovitz O.
2021 , Precision agriculture’21. Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2021. 37-44

Crop Cycle and Tillage Role in the Outbreak of Late Wilt Disease of Maize Caused by Magnaporthiopsis maydis

Ofir Degani, Asaf Gordani, Paz Becher and Shlomit Dor
2021 , Journal of Fungi, 2021, 7, 706.
https://doi.org/10.3390/jof7090706

Trichoderma asperellum Secreted 6-Pentyl-α-Pyrone to Control Magnaporthiopsis maydis, the Maize Late Wilt Disease Agent

Ofir Degani, Soliman Khatib, Paz Becher, Asaf Gordani and Raviv Harris
2021 , Biology 2021, 10, 897.
doi:10.3390/biology10090897

Trichoderma longibrachiatum and Trichoderma asperellum Confer Growth Promotion and Protection against Late Wilt Disease in the Field

Degani O, Rabinovitz O, Becher P, Gordani A, Chen A.
2021 , Journal of Fungi. 2021; 7(6):444.