Elazar Fallik Ph.D

Research Interests

• The use of non-chemical treatments for disease control.
• Postharvest disease control of sweet peppers, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, eggplants, melons, watermelons and organic commodities.
• Fruit resistance by physical treatments.
• Sensory analysis (taste and smell) in harvested fresh produce.
• Pathological aspects as affected by fruit volatiles.

Recent Publications (since 2000 - from total of 86 reviewed papers)

• Fallik, E., Aharoni, Y., Copel, A., Rodov, R., Tuvia-Alkalai, S., Horev, B., Yekutieli, O., Wiseblum, A. and Regev, R. (2000). A short hot water rinse reduces postharvest losses of 'Galia' melon. Plant Pathol. 49: 333-338.
• Lichter, A., Dvir, O., Rot, I., Akerman, M., Regev, R., Wiseblum, A., Fallik, E., Zauberman, G. and Fuchs, Y. (2000). Hot water brushing: an alternative method to SO2 fumigation for color retention of litchi Fruits. Postharvest Biol. Technol. 18: 235-244.
• Porat, R., Daus, A., Weiss, B., Cohen, L., Fallik, E. and Droby, S. (2000). Reduction of postharvest decay in organic citrus fruit by a short hot water brushing treatment. Postharvest Biol. Technol. 18: 151-157.
• Porat, R., Pavoncello, D., Peretz, Y., Weiss, B., Cohen, L., Ben-Yehoshua, S., Fallik, E., Droby, S. and Lurie, S. (2000). Induction of resistance against Penicillium digitatum and chilling injury in Star Ruby grapefruit by a short hot water brushing treatment. J. Hort. Sci. Biotechnol. 75: 428-432.
• Fallik, E., Tuvia-Alkalai, S., Feng, X. and Lurie, S. (2001). Ripening characterization and decay development of stored apples after a short prestorage hot water rinsing and brushing. Innovative Food Sci. Emerging Technol. 2: 127-132.
• Fallik, E., Tuvia-Alkali, S., Horev, B., Copel, A., Rodov, V., Aharoni, Y., Ulrich, D. and Schulz, H. (2001). Characterization of aroma volatiles in ‘Galia’ melon after prolonged storage. Postharvest Biol. Technol. 22: 85-91.
• Pasternak, H., Schmilovitch, Z., Fallik, E., Edan, Y. (2001). Overcoming multicollinearity in NIR analysis using ridge regression. J. Test. Eval. 29: 60-66.
• Ilic, Z., Polevaya, Y., Tuvia-Alkalai, S., Copel, A. and Fallik, E. (2001). A short prestorage hot water rinse and brushing reduces decay development in tomato, while maintaining its quality. Trop. Agric. Res. Ext. 4: 1-6.
• Fallik, E., Ilic, Z., Tuvia-Alkalai, S., Copel, A. and Polevaya, Y. (2002). A short hot water rinsing and brushing reduces chilling injury and enhance resistance against Botrytis cinerea in fresh harvested tomato. Advance Hortic. Sci. 16: 3-6.
• Laykin, S., Alchanatis, V., Fallik, E. and Edan, Y. (2002). Image processing algorithms for tomatoes classification. Trans. ASAE 45: 851-858.
• Lichter A., Dvir, O., Fallik, E., Cohen, S., Golan, R., Shemer, Z. and Sagi, M. (2002). Cracking of cherry tomatoes in solution. Postharvest Biol. Technol. 26: 305-312.
• Lurie, S., Pre-Aymard, C., Larkov, O., Ravid, U. and Fallik, E. (2002). Effect of 1-Methylcyclopropene on Volatile Emission and Aroma Perception of Anna Apples. J. Agric. Food Chem. 50: 4251-4256.
• Polevaya, Y., Alkalai-Tuvia, S., Copel, A. and Fallik, E. (2002). Early detection of grey mould development in tomato after harvest. Postharvest Biol. Technol. 25: 221-225.
• Ben-Shalom, N., Ardi, R., Pinto, R., Aki, C. and Fallik, E. (2003). Controlling of gray mould disease caused by Botrytis cinerea in cucumber plants by means of chitosan but not chitin oligomers. Crop Protec. 22: 285-290.
• Ben-Shalom, N. and Fallik, E. (2003). Further suppresion of Botrytis cinerea disease by chitosan-copper complex as compared with chitosan alone in cucumber plants. Phytoparasitica 31: 99-102.
• Fallik, E. Polevaya, Y., Tuvia-Alkalai, S., Shalom, Y. and Zuckermann, H. (2003). A 24 h anoxia treatment reduces decay development while maintaining tomato fruit quality. Postharvest Biol. Technol. 29: 233-236.
• Hoberg, E., Ulrich, D., Schulz, H., Tuvia-Alkali, S. and Fallik, E. (2003). Sensory and quality analysis of different melon cultivars after prolonged storage. Nahrung/Food 47: 320-324.
• Maalekuu, K., Elkind, Y., Tuvia-Alkalai, S., Shalom, Y. and Fallik, E. (2003). Quality evaluation of three sweet pepper cultivars after prolonged storage. Adv. Hort. Sci. 17: 187-191.
• Maalekuu, K., Elkind, Y., Tuvia-Alkalai, S., Shalom, Y. and Fallik, E. (2004). The influence of harvest season and cultivar type on several quality traits and quality stability of three commercial sweet bell peppers during the harvest period. Adv. Hort. Sci. 18: 21-25.
• Fallik, E., Shalom, Y., Alkalai-Tuvia, S., Larkov, O., Brandeis, E. And Ravid, U. (2005). External, internal and sensory traits in Galia-type melon treated with different waxes. Postharvest Biol. Technol. 36: 69-75.
• Maalekuu, K., Elkind, Y., Goodwin, S.M., Alkalai-Tuvia, S., Shalom, Y., Jenks, M.A. and Fallik, E. (2005). Characterization of physiological and biochemical factors associated withpostharvest water loss in ripe pepper fruit during storage. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 130: 735-741.
• Pre-Aymard, C., Fallik, E., Weksler, A. and Lurie, S. (2005). Sensory analysis and instrumental measurements of 'Anna' apples treated with 1-methylcyclopropene. Postharvest Biol. Technol. 36: 135-142.
  
  

Reviews and Book

• Hamilton-Kemp, T.R., Archbold, D.D., Loughrin, J.H., Anderson, R.A., McCracken Jr., C.T., Collins, R.W. and Fallik, E. (2000). Stimulation and inhibition of fungal pathogens of plants by natural volatile phytochemical and their analogs. Current Topics in Phytochemistry 4: 95-104. (A review).
• Schirra, M., D’hallewin, G., Ben-Yehoshua, S. and Fallik, E. (2000). Host-pathogen interactions modulated by heat treatment. Postharvest Biol. Technol. 21: 71-86 (A review)
• Ilic’, Z. and Fallik, E. (2002). Cuvanje Povrca - (Storage of Vegetables). University of Prishtina, 247 p. (A Book)
• Fallik, E. (2004). Pre-storage hot water treatments (immersion, rinsing and brushing). Postharvest Biol. Technol. 32: 125-134. (A review).
• Fallik, E. (2005). Chapter 20: Hot Water Treatments for Control of Fungal Decay on Fresh Produce. In: Microbiology of Fruits and Vegetables. pp. 461-478 (Sapers, G.M., Gorny, J.R. and Yousef, A.E. Eds). CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, Florida.
  

Current Projects

• Development of method for cleaning and disinfecting agricultural fresh produce using a short hot water rinsing and brushing technique.
• Development of sensory analysis for evaluation the taste and smell in fresh harvested produce.
• Postharvest physical treatments for prevention of pathogen infection and its mode of action.
• Understanding the mode-of-action of water loss in sweet bell peppers.
• The use of physical treatments to prevent chilling injury during very low temperature storage of sweet pepper.
• The effect of 1-MCP on Galia-type melon after harvest.