List of Publications
1. Maya Elbaz, Adi Avni, and Miguel Weil: “Constitutive caspase-like machinery executes programmed cell death in plant cells”. Cell Death and Differentiation (2002) 9, 726-733. IF: 8.184; ISI ranking: 24/289; 122 citations.
2. Maya Bar, Maya Aharon, Barak Rotblat, Sigi Benjamin, Mia Horowitz and Adi Avni: “AtEHDs, novel Arabidopsis EH-domain containing proteins involved in endocytosis". Plant Jl (2008) Sep;55(6):1025-38. IF: 5.972; ISI ranking: 10/200; 32 citations.
3. Maya Bar, Sigi Benjamin, Mia Horowitz and Adi Avni: “AtEHDs in Endocytosis" Plant Signaling and behavior (2008) 3:11 pp 1008–1010. 4 citations.
4. Maya Bar and Adi Avni: "EHD2 inhibits ligand-induced endocytosis and signaling of the Leucine Rich Repeat Receptor-like Protein LeEix2". Plant Jl (2009) 59 (4), 600-611. IF: 5.972; ISI ranking: 10/200; 79 citations.
5. Maya Bar and Adi Avni: "EHD2 inhibits signaling of leucine rich repeat receptor-like proteins". Plant Signaling and behavior (2009) 4:7 pp 1–3. 6 citations.
6. Maya Bar, Miya Sharfman, Sylvia Schuster and Adi Avni: "The coiled-coil domain of EHD2 mediates inhibition of LeEix2 endocytosis and signaling" PLoS ONE (2009) 4(11): e7973. IF: 3.234; ISI ranking: 8/56; 33 citations.
7. Maya Bar and Adi Avni: "Endocytosis in Plant Fungal Interactions", Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology Series. Eds.: Seckbach & Grube, Vol. 14: Symbioses & Stress (2009).
8. Maya Bar*, Miya Sharfman*, Mily Ron and Adi AvniPI: "BAK1 is required for the attenuation of ethylene-inducing xylanase (Eix)-induced defense responses by the decoy receptor LeEix1" Plant Jl (2010) 63, 791–800. IF: 5.972; ISI ranking: 10/200; 96 citations.
9. Maya Bar, Miya Sharfman and Adi AvniPI: "LeEix1 functions as a decoy receptor to attenuate LeEix2 signaling", Plant Signaling & Behavior 6:3 1-3; March 2011. 8 citations.
10. Miya Sharfman*, Maya Bar*, Marcelo Ehrlich, Silvia Schuster, Shiri Melech-Bonfil, Ran Ezer, Guido Sessa and Adi Avni: ”Endosomal signaling of the tomato leucine rich repeat receptor-like protein LeEix2", Plant Jl (2011) 68(3) 413-423. IF: 5.972; ISI ranking: 10/200; 52 citations.
11. Maya Bar and Adi Avni: "Endocytosis of LeEix and EHD Proteins During Plant Defense Signaling", Endocytosis in Plants, J. Samaj Ed., Springer-Verlag (2012).
12. Maya Bar, Meirav Leibman, Sylvia Schuster, Hilla Pitzhadza and Adi Avni: "EHD1 functions in endosomal recycling and confers salt tolerance". PLoS ONE (2013);8(1):e54533. IF: 3.234; ISI ranking: 8/56; 11 citations.
13. Maya Bar, Sylvia Schuster, Meirav Leibman, Ran EzerS and Adi AvniPI: "The function of EHD2 in endocytosis and defense signaling is affected by SUMO". Plant Mol Biol 2014 Mar;84(4-5):509-18. IF: 4.257; ISI ranking: 17/200; 5 citations.
14. Miya Sharfman, Maya Bar, Sylvia Schuster, Meirav Leibman and Adi Avni: "Sterol-dependent induction of plant defense responses by a microbe-associated molecular pattern from Trichoderma viride" Plant Physiol. 2014 Feb;164(2):819-27. IF: 6.841; ISI ranking: 8/200; 5 citations.
15. Maya Bar and Adi Avni: "Endosomal trafficking and signaling in plant defense responses" Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2014 Oct 1;22C:86-92. Invited Review. IF:7.848; ISI ranking: 5/200; 8 citations.
16. Maya Bar and Naomi Ori: “Leaf development and morphogenesis” Development 2014 Nov;141(22):4219-30. Invited Review. IF:6.462; ISI ranking: 4/41; 42 citations.
17. Maya Bar and Naomi Ori: “Compound leaf development in model plant species” Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2015 Feb;23C:61-69. Invited Review. IF:7.848; ISI ranking: 5/200; 20 citations.
18. Maya Bar, Ori Ben-Herzel, Hagai Kochay, Ilana Shtein and Naomi Ori: “CLAUSA restricts tomato leaf morphogenesis and GOBLET expression”, Plant Jl. 2015 Sep;83(5):888-902. IF: 5.972; ISI ranking: 10/200; 4 citations.
19. Hadas Ben-Gera, Asaf Dafna, John-Paul Alvarez, Maya Bar, Mareike Mauerer and Naomi Ori: “Auxin-mediated lamina growth in tomato leaves is restricted by two parallel mechanisms”, Plant Jl., 2016 Apr 28 86(6):443-57. doi: 10.1111/tpj.13188. IF: 5.972; ISI ranking: 10/200; 5 citations.
20. Maya Bar, Alon Israeli, Matan Levy, Hadas Ben Gera, José M Jiménez-Gómez, Stepan Kouril, Petr Tarkowski and Naomi Ori: "CLAUSA is a MYB transcription factor that promotes leaf differentiation by attenuating cytokinin signaling”, Plant Cell, 2016 28(7):1602-15. IF: 9.338; ISI ranking: 1/200; 2 citations.
21. Ido Shwartz, Matan Levy, Naomi Ori and Maya Bar: “Hormones in tomato leaf development”, invited review, Developmental Biology, 2016, pii: S0012-1606(16)30107-5. IF: 3.547; ISI ranking: 11/41; 2 citations.
22. Maya Bar, Barak Rotblat, and Oded Rechavi: “Nomad Scientists and the Ones Left Behind”, Elife, 2017 Jul 11;6. pii: e30183. doi: 10.7554/eLife.30183.
23. Gabriel Leprivier, Thomas G. P. Grünewald, Maya Bar, Oded Rechavi, Barak Rotblat: "Building a Scientific Community – DIY for Young PIs", NatureJobs, 2018 Jan 22, http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2018/01/22/.
24. Lorena Pizarro, Meirav Leibman-Markus, Silvia Schuster, Maya Bar, Tal Meltz, Adi Avni: "Tomato prenylated RAB acceptor protein 1 modulates trafficking and degradation of the pattern recognition receptor LeEIX2, affecting the innate immune response", Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018, 9:257.
25. Lorena Pizarro, Meirav Leibman-Markus, Silvia Schuster, Maya Bar, Adi Avni: "SlPRA1A/RAB attenuate EIX immune responses via degradation of LeEIX2 pattern recognition receptor", Plant Signalling and Behavior, June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2018.1467689.
26. Meirav Leibman-Markus, Lorena Pizarro, Silvia Schuster, ZJ Daniel Lin, Ofir Gershony, Maya Bar, Gitta Coaker and Adi Avni: "The intracellular nucleotide binding leucine-rich repeat receptor – SlNRC4a enhances perceived extracellular immune signalling", Plant Cell Environ. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.
27. Meirav Leibman-Markus, Lorena Pizarro, Maya Bar, Silvia Schuster, Gitta Coaker, Adi Avni (2018). "NRC proteins-a critical node for pattern and effector mediated signalling", Plant Signal Behav, 2018. https://doi/abs/10.1080/15592324.2018.1507404
28. Alon Israeli, Yossi Capua, Ido Shwartz, Lior Tal, Zohar Meir, Matan Levy, Maya Bar, Idan Efroni, Naomi Ori: " Multiple Auxin-Response Regulators Enable Stability and Variability in Leaf Development". Current Biology 2019 Jun 29 (11), 1746-1759. e5.
29. Lorena Pizarro, Meirav Leibman-Markus, Silvia Schuster, Maya Bar, Adi Avni: "Tomato Dynamin Related Protein 2A associates with LeEIX2 and enhances PRR mediated defense by modulating receptor trafficking", Frontiers in Plant Science 2019 Jul 10, 936.
30. Rupali Gupta and Maya Bar: "Plant immunity priming and systemic resistance as a mechanism for Trichoderma spp. Biocontrol", 2019, Springer.
31. Maya Bar and Ilana Shtein: "Plant trichomes and biomechanics of defense in Solanaceae and beyond", Botany 2019 https://doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2019-0144.
32. Jiménez-Guerrero I, Pérez-Montaño F, Da Silva GM, Wagner N, Shkedy D, Zhao M, Pizarro L, Bar M, Walcott R, Sessa G, Pupko T, Burdman S.: "Show me your secret(ed) weapons: a multifaceted approach reveals a wide arsenal of type III-secreted effectors in the cucurbit pathogenic bacterium Acidovorax citrulli and novel effectors in the Acidovorax genus. Mol Plant Pathol. 2019 Oct 23. doi: 10.1111/mpp.12877.
33. Lorena Pizarro, Meirav Leibman-Markus, Rupali Gupta, Ilana Shtein, Einat Bar, Rachel Davidovich-Rikanati, Raz Zarivach, Efraim Lewinsohn, Adi Avni and Maya Bar.
A gain of function mutation in SlNRC4a enhances basal immunity resulting in broad- spectrum disease resistance.
Comms Biol. 2020, 3:404. doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01130-w.
34. Rupali Gupta, Lorena Pizarro, Meirav Leibman-Markus, Iftah Marash and Maya Bar.
Cytokinin response induces immunity and fungal pathogen resistance and modulates PRR activity in tomato.
Mol Plant Pathol. 2020;00:1-20. doi: 10.1111/mpp.12978.
35. Rupali Gupta, Meirav Leibman-Markus, Lorena Pizarro, and Maya Bar.
Cytokinin induces bacterial pathogen resistance in tomato.
Plant Pathol. 2020;00:1-8. doi: 10.1111/ppa.13279.
36. Evyatar Steiner, Alon Israeli, Rupali Gupta, Ido Shwartz, Ido Nir, Meirav Leibman-Markus, Lior Tal, Mika Farber, Ziva Amsalem, Naomi Ori, Bruno Müller and Maya Bar.
Characterization of the Cytokinin sensor TCSv2 in Arabidopsis and Tomato.
BMC Plant Methods. DOI: 10.1186/s13007-020-00694-2