She is from moshav Sgula and is a noted plant geneticist.
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Sometimes plants accept foreign genes with a little help from plant geneticists.
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It's junk, " said Robert Bernatzky, plant geneticist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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The oldest seeds in the collection, founded in 1922 by plant geneticist Nikolai Vavilov, date back to 1894.
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Plant geneticists now fear that the second type is starting to breed with its Irish relative to produce fearsome new strains.
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Plant geneticists have been breeding in flavor, high yield, disease resistance and ideal size, shape and color for years.
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"It came as a complete surprise, " said plant geneticist Carole Meredith, who lead led the research effort.
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Plant geneticists estimate that up to 15 percent of Monterey pines are resistant to the fungus and could be used to regrow devastated stands.
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Already, researchers such as Purdue University plant geneticist Jeff Bennetzen have begun using the rice discovery to guide their work with other crops.
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While there, he formed a friendly relationship with the plant geneticist Nikolaj Vavilov, who was President of the Soviet Adcademy of Agricultural Sciences.