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D-Index
48
Citations
15700
World Ranking
2336
National Ranking
31

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Botany
  • Ecology
  • Genetics

Daniel Zohary mainly investigates Domestication, Old World, Agriculture, Botany and Agronomy. His research integrates issues of Bronze Age, Range, Cultivar, Loss of heterozygosity and Outcrossing in his study of Domestication. He works mostly in the field of Old World, limiting it down to concerns involving Agroforestry and, occasionally, Mediterranean Basin, Paleoethnobotany, Agricultural science and Prehistory.

The concepts of his Agriculture study are interwoven with issues in Plant ecology, Ecology and Natural. His biological study deals with issues like Introgression, which deal with fields such as Sexual reproduction, Vegetative reproduction, Crop and Fruit tree. His research in Agronomy intersects with topics in Steppe and Habitat.

His most cited work include:

  • Domestication of plants in the old world (1634 citations)
  • Domestication of Plants in the Old World: The Origin and Spread of Cultivated Plants in West Asia, Europe, and the Nile Valley (611 citations)
  • Distribution of Wild Wheats and Barley (517 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Daniel Zohary focuses on Botany, Domestication, Genetic diversity, Genetic variation and Range. The various areas that Daniel Zohary examines in his Botany study include Natural selection, Ploidy and Introgression. His Domestication research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Agronomy, Old World, Mediterranean Basin, Agriculture and Plant ecology.

His Old World study combines topics in areas such as Agroforestry, Vicia faba and Middle East. When carried out as part of a general Agriculture research project, his work on Paleoethnobotany is frequently linked to work in Time range, therefore connecting diverse disciplines of study. The study incorporates disciplines such as Zoology, Genetic variability, Allele and Hordeum in addition to Genetic variation.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Botany (68.18%)
  • Domestication (28.79%)
  • Genetic diversity (25.76%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2005-2012)?

  • Domestication (28.79%)
  • Agriculture (12.12%)
  • Old World (10.61%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Domestication, Agriculture, Old World, Mediterranean Basin and Botany are his primary areas of study. His Domestication research includes themes of Zoology and Paleoethnobotany. His Agriculture study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Cartography, Regional science and China.

His Old World research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Agroforestry, Genetic diversity, Geographical isolation, Subspecies and Olea. Mediterranean Basin connects with themes related to Molecular analysis in his study.

Between 2005 and 2012, his most popular works were:

  • Domestication of Plants in the Old World: The origin and spread of domesticated plants in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin (333 citations)
  • The Neolithic Southwest Asian Founder Crops Their Biology and Archaeobotany (69 citations)
  • Current state of the art (37 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Botany
  • Ecology
  • Genetics

Daniel Zohary mainly focuses on Domestication, Medicine, State, Current and Old World. His Domestication research incorporates elements of Agriculture and Paleoethnobotany. His Old World research includes elements of Agroforestry, Botany and Mediterranean Basin.

Best Publications

  • Domestication of plants in the old world

    Daniel Zohary;Maria Hopf;Ehud Weiss

  • Domestication of plants in the Old World : the origin and spread of cultivated plants in West Asia, Europe, and the Nile Valley

    Daniel Zohary;Maria Hopf

  • Domestication of Plants in the Old World: The origin and spread of domesticated plants in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin

    Daniel Zohary;Maria Hopf;Ehud Weiss

  • Beginnings of fruit growing in the old world.

    Daniel Zohary;Pinhas Spiegel-Roy

  • Distribution of Wild Wheats and Barley

    Jack R. Harlan;Daniel Zohary

  • GENETIC DIVERSITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATIONS OF WILD BARLEY, HORDEUM SPONTANEUM, IN ISRAEL.

    Eviatar Nevo;Daniel Zohary;A. H. D. Brown;Michael Haber

  • Unconscious selection and the evolution of domesticated Plants

    Daniel Zohary

  • Domestication of Pulses in the Old World: Legumes were companions of wheat and barley when agriculture began in the Near East.

    Daniel Zohary;Maria Hopf

  • HYBRIDIZATION BETWEEN AMPHIDIPLOIDS AND THE EVOLUTION OF POLYPLOIDS IN THE WHEAT (AEGILOPS-TRITICUM) GROUP

    Daniel Zohary;Moshe Feldman

  • GENETIC VARIATION IN NATURAL POPULATIONS OF WILD BARLEY (HORDEUM SPONTANEUM)

    A. H. D. Brown;E. Nevo;D. Zohary;O. Dagan

  • Outcrossing rates and heterozygosity in natural populations of Hordeum spontaneum Koch in Israel

    A H D Brown;D Zohary;E Nevo

  • Genetic diversity and environmental associations of wild wheat, Triticum dicoccoides, in Israel.

    E. Nevo;E. Golenberg;A. Beiles;A. H. D. Brown

  • Monophyletic vs. polyphyletic origin of the crops on which agriculture was founded in the Near East

    Daniel Zohary

  • The Neolithic Southwest Asian Founder Crops Their Biology and Archaeobotany

    Ehud Weiss;Daniel Zohary

  • The genus Amygdalus L. ( Rosaceae ): Species relationships, distribution and evolution under domestication

    Kazimriez Browicz;Daniel Zohary

  • Genetic resources of wild barley in the near East: structure, evolution and application in breeding

    E. Nevo;A. Beiles;D. Zohary

  • The wild progenitor and the place of origin of the cultivated lentil:Lens culinaris

    Daniel Zohary

  • The wild ancestry of the cultivated artichoke.

    Aaron Rottenberg;Daniel Zohary

  • The wild genetic resources of cultivated lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.)

    Daniel Zohary

  • The wild diploid progenitors of wheat and their breeding value

    D. Zohary;J. R. Harlan;A. Vardi

  • Natural Triploids in the Orchard Grass, Dactylis glomerata L., Polyploid Complex and Their Significance for Gene Flow From Diploid to Tetraploid Levels

    Daniel Zohary;Uzi Nur

  • Genetic diversity and environmental associations of wild barley,Hordeum spontaneum, in Turkey

    E. Nevo;D. Zohary;A. Beiles;D. Kaplan

Frequent Co-Authors

Eviatar Nevo
Eviatar Nevo University of Haifa
Avigdor Beiles
Avigdor Beiles University of Haifa
Anthony H. D. Brown
Anthony H. D. Brown Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Jack R. Harlan
Jack R. Harlan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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