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2025

Liu, J., Hochberg, U., Alon, A., & Cohen, S. (2025). Trade-offs between residual conductance, hydraulic capacitance, and water access in Mediterranean species. Tree Physiology, tpaf023.‏‏

2025

Feng, F., Assouline, S., Rockwell, F., & Hochberg, U. (2025). Water Loss From Bagged Leaves During Storage: Why and When?. Plant, Cell & Environment, 48(2), 1051-1059.

2025

Perry, A., Sperling, O., Rachmilevitch, S., & Hochberg, U. (2025). Carbon Dynamics Under Drought and Recovery in Grapevine's Leaves. Plant, Cell & Environment.‏

2024

Gersony, J., Manandhar, A., Hochberg, U., Abdellaoui, N., Llanos, P., Dumais, J., ... & Rockwell, F. E. (2024). Making dew in the Atacama Desert: a paradigmatic case of plant water uptake from an unsaturated atmosphere fails a test. Annals of Botany, mcae221.‏

2024

Haj-Yahya, A., Sorek, Y., Hochberg, U., Ohana-Levi, N., Zait, Y., & Shtein, I. (2024). Bimodal pattern of allometric scaling along grapevine shoots. Annals of Botany, 134(7), 1165-1176.‏

2024

Shapira, O., Hochberg, U., Joseph, A., McAdam, S., Azoulay‐Shemer, T., Brodersen, C. R., ... & Zait, Y. (2024). Wind speed affects the rate and kinetics of stomatal conductance. The Plant Journal, 120(4), 1552-1562.‏ 

2024

Carlos Herrera, J., & Hochberg, U. (2024). Seasonality drives leaf solute potential independently from drought in grapevines. A commentary on ‘Grape cultivars adapted to hotter, drier growing regions exhibit greater photosynthesis in hot conditions despite less drought-resistant leaves’. Annals of Botany, 134(2), i-ii.‏

2024

Sperling, O., Perry, A., Ben-Gal, A., Yermiyahu, U., & Hochberg, U. (2024). Potassium deficiency reduces grapevine transpiration through decreased leaf area and stomatal conductance. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 208, 108534.‏

2024

Liu, J., Hochberg, U., Ding, R., Xiong, D., Dai, Z., Zhao, Q., ... & Kang, S. (2024). Elevated CO2 concentration increases maize growth under water deficit or soil salinity but with a higher risk of hydraulic failure. Journal of Experimental Botany, 75(1), 422-437.‏

2023

Sorek, Y., Netzer, Y., Cohen, S., & Hochberg, U. (2023). Rapid leaf xylem acclimation diminishes the chances of embolism in grapevines. Journal of Experimental Botany, 74(21), 6836-6846.‏

2023

Nadal-Sala, D., Grote, R., Kraus, D., Hochberg, U., Klein, T., Wagner, Y., ... & Ruehr, N. K. (2023). Integration of tree hydraulic processes and functional impairment to capture the drought resilience of a semi-arid pine forest. Biogeosciences Discussions, 2023, 1-35.‏

2023

Wagner, Y., Volkov, M., Nadal‐Sala, D., Ruehr, N. K., Hochberg, U., & Klein, T. (2023). Relationships between xylem embolism and tree functioning during drought, recovery, and recurring drought in Aleppo pine. Physiologia Plantarum, 175(5), e13995.‏

2023

Sperling, O., Yermiyahu, U., & Hochberg, U. (2023). Linking almond trees’ transpiration to irrigation’s mineral composition by physiological indices and machine learning. Irrigation Science, 41(4), 487-499.‏

2023

Silber, A., Shapira, O., Sperling, O., & Hochberg, U. (2023). The Seasonal Dynamics of Mango’s Water Uptake in Respect to Nitrogen Fertilization. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 23(2), 2247-2257.‏

2023

Feng, F., Wagner, Y., Klein, T., & Hochberg, U. (2023). Xylem resistance to cavitation increases during summer in Pinus halepensis. Plant, Cell & Environment, 46(6), 1849-1859.‏

2023

Alon, A., Cohen, S., Burlett, R., Hochberg, U., Lukyanov, V., Rog, I., ... & David‐Schwartz, R. (2023). Acclimation limits for embolism resistance and osmotic adjustment accompany the geographical dry edge of Mediterranean species. Functional Ecology, 37(5), 1421-1435.‏

10 October 2022

Barzilai, O., Avraham, M., Wagner, Y., Dag, A., & Hochberg, U. (2022). To-8 MPa and back: in-situ annual water relation in non-irrigated olive trees. Journal of Plant Hydraulics, 8, e001-e001.

28 October 2022

Zhang, Y. J., Hochberg, U., Rockwell, F. E., Ponomarenko, A., Chen, Y. J., Manandhar, A., ... & Holbrook, N. M. (2023). Xylem conduit deformation across vascular plants: an evolutionary spandrel or protective valve?. New Phytologist, 237(4), 1242-1255.

24 September 2022

Sorek, Y., Greenstein, S., & Hochberg, U. (2022). Seasonal adjustment of leaf embolism resistance and its importance for hydraulic safety in deciduous trees. Physiologia Plantarum, 174(5), e13785.

 06 July 2022

Sperling, O., Yermiyahu, U., & Hochberg, U. (2022). Linking almond trees’ transpiration to irrigation’s mineral composition by physiological indices and machine learning. Irrigation Science, 1-13.

15 June 2022

Silber, A., Goldberg, T., Shapira, O., & Hochberg, U. (2022). Nitrogen uptake and macronutrients distribution in mango (Mangifera indica L. cv. Keitt) trees. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 181, 23-32.

05 May 2022

Wagner, Y., Feng, F., Yakir, D., Klein, T., & Hochberg, U. (2022). In situ, direct observation of seasonal embolism dynamics in Aleppo pine trees growing on the dry edge of their distribution. New Phytologist, 235(4), 1344-1350.

19 November 2021

Herrera, J. C., Calderan, A., Gambetta, G. A., Peterlunger, E., Forneck, A., Sivilotti, P., ... & Hochberg, U. (2022). Stomatal responses in grapevine become increasingly more tolerant to low water potentials throughout the growing season. The Plant Journal, 109(4), 804-815.

09 October 2021

Barzilai, O., Avraham, M., Sorek, Y., Zemach, H., Dag, A., & Hochberg, U. (2021). Productivity versus drought adaptation in olive leaves: Comparison of water relations in a modern versus a traditional cultivar. Physiologia Plantarum, 173(4), 2298-2306.

02 September 2021

Goldberg, K., Herrmann, I., Hochberg, U., & Rozenstein, O. (2021). Generating Up-to-Date Crop Maps Optimized for Sentinel-2 Imagery in Israel. Remote Sensing, 13(17), 3488.

 1 October 2021

Assouline, S., Hochberg, U., & Silber, A. (2021). The impact of tree phenology on the response of irrigated avocado: The hysteretic nature of the maximum trunk daily shrinkage. Agricultural Water Management, 256, 107104.

23 October 2020

Sorek, Y., Greenstein, S., Netzer, Y., Shtein, I., Jansen, S., & Hochberg, U. (2021). An increase in xylem embolism resistance of grapevine leaves during the growing season is coordinated with stomatal regulation, turgor loss point and intervessel pit membranes. New Phytologist, 229(4), 1955-1969.

29 May 2020

Gersony, J. T., Hochberg, U., Rockwell, F. E., Park, M., Gauthier, P. P., & Holbrook, N. M. (2020). Leaf carbon export and nonstructural carbohydrates in relation to diurnal water dynamics in mature oak trees. Plant Physiology, 183(4), 1612-1621.

20 May 2020

Gambetta, G. A., Herrera, J. C., Dayer, S., Feng, Q., Hochberg, U., & Castellarin, S. D. (2020). The physiology of drought stress in grapevine: towards an integrative definition of drought tolerance. Journal of experimental botany, 71(16), 4658-4676.

20 January 2020

Levin, A. D. (2020). Improvement of pressure chamber protocols-Response to Hochberg (2019). Agricultural Water Management, 227, 105837.

06 March 2019

Hochberg, U., Ponomarenko, A., Zhang, Y. J., Rockwell, F. E., & Holbrook, N. M. (2019). Visualizing embolism propagation in gas-injected leaves. Plant Physiology, 180(2), 874-881.

11 February 2019

Degu, A., Hochberg, U., Wong, D. C., Alberti, G., Lazarovitch, N., Peterlunger, E., ... & Fait, A. (2019). Swift metabolite changes and leaf shedding are milestones in the acclimation process of grapevine under prolonged water stress. BMC plant biology, 19, 1-17.

February 2018

Hochberg, U., Rockwell, F. E., Holbrook, N. M., & Cochard, H. (2018). Iso/anisohydry: a plant–environment interaction rather than a simple hydraulic trait. Trends in plant science, 23(2), 112-120.

10 August 2017

Rapaport, T., Hochberg, U., Cochavi, A., Karnieli, A., & Rachmilevitch, S. (2017). The potential of the spectral ‘water balance index’(WABI) for crop irrigation scheduling. New Phytologist, 216(3), 741-757.

29 June 2017

Herrera, J. C., Hochberg, U., Degu, A., Sabbatini, P., Lazarovitch, N., Castellarin, S. D., ... & Peterlunger, E. (2017). Grape metabolic response to postveraison water deficit is affected by interseason weather variability. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 65(29), 5868-5878.

28 March 2017

Hochberg, U., Windt, C. W., Ponomarenko, A., Zhang, Y. J., Gersony, J., Rockwell, F. E., & Holbrook, N. M. (2017). Stomatal closure, basal leaf embolism, and shedding protect the hydraulic integrity of grape stems. Plant Physiology, 174(2), 764-775.

18 February 2017

Hochberg, U., Bonel, A. G., David-Schwartz, R., Degu, A., Fait, A., Cochard, H., ... & Herrera, J. C. (2017). Grapevine acclimation to water deficit: the adjustment of stomatal and hydraulic conductance differs from petiole embolism vulnerability. Planta, 245, 1091-1104.

19 August 2016

Hochberg, U., Herrera, J. C., Degu, A., Castellarin, S. D., Peterlunger, E., Alberti, G., & Lazarovitch, N. (2017). Evaporative demand determines the relative transpirational sensitivity of deficit-irrigated grapevines. Irrigation Science, 35, 1-9.

03 February 2016

Hochberg, U., Herrera, J. C., Cochard, H., & Badel, E. (2016). Short-time xylem relaxation results in reliable quantification of embolism in grapevine petioles and sheds new light on their hydraulic strategy. Tree physiology, 36(6), 748-755.

09 December 2015

Hochberg, U., Albuquerque, C., Rachmilevitch, S., Cochard, H., David‐Schwartz, R., Brodersen, C. R., ... & Windt, C. W. (2016). Grapevine petioles are more sensitive to drought induced embolism than stems: evidence from in vivo MRI and microcomputed tomography observations of hydraulic vulnerability segmentation. Plant, Cell & Environment, 39(9), 1886-1894.

16 November 2015

Ghan, R., Van Sluyter, S. C., Hochberg, U., Degu, A., Hopper, D. W., Tillet, R. L., ... & Cramer, G. R. (2015). Five omic technologies are concordant in differentiating the biochemical characteristics of the berries of five grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) cultivars. BMC genomics, 16, 1-26.

14 October 2015

Hochberg U, Batushansky A, Degu A, Rachmilevitch S, Fait A (2015).Metabolic and Physiological Responses of Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon (Vitis vinifera L.) to NearOptimal Temperatures of 25 and 35 °C.International Journal of Molecular Science.

27 September 2015

Rapaport, T., Hochberg, U., Shoshany, M., Karnieli, A., & Rachmilevitch, S. (2015). Combining leaf physiology, hyperspectral imaging and partial least squares-regression (PLS-R) for grapevine water status assessment. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 109, 88-97.

23 January 2015

Hochberg, U., Degu, A., Cramer, G. R., Rachmilevitch, S., & Fait, A. (2015). Cultivar specific metabolic changes in grapevines berry skins in relation to deficit irrigation and hydraulic behavior. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 88, 42-52.

15 November 2014

Degu, A., Morcia, C., Tumino, G., Hochberg, U., Toubiana, D., Mattivi, F., ... & Fait, A. (2015). Metabolite profiling elucidates communalities and differences in the polyphenol biosynthetic pathways of red and white Muscat genotypes. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 86, 24-33.

12 December 2014

Hochberg, U., Degu, A., Gendler, T., Fait, A., & Rachmilevitch, S. (2014). The variability in the xylem architecture of grapevine petiole and its contribution to hydraulic differences. Functional Plant Biology, 42(4), 357-365.

Degu, A., Hochberg, U., Sikron, N., Venturini, L., Buson, G., Ghan, R., ... & Fait, A. (2014). Metabolite and transcript profiling of berry skin during fruit development elucidates differential regulation between Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz cultivars at branching points in the polyphenol pathway. BMC plant biology, 14(1), 1-20.

Rapaport, T., Hochberg, U., Rachmilevitch, S., & Karnieli, A. (2014). The effect of differential growth rates across plants on spectral predictions of physiological parameters. PloS one, 9(2), e88930.

Hochberg, U., Degu, A., Toubiana, D., Gendler, T., Nikoloski, Z., Rachmilevitch, S., & Fait, A. (2013). Metabolite profiling and network analysis reveal coordinated changes in grapevine water stress response. BMC plant biology, 13(1), 1-16.

Hochberg, U., Degu, A., Fait, A., & Rachmilevitch, S. (2013). Near isohydric grapevine cultivar displays higher photosynthetic efficiency and photorespiration rates under drought stress as compared with near anisohydric grapevine cultivar. Physiologia Plantarum, 147(4), 443-452.

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