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D-Index
45
Citations
8901
World Ranking
2804
National Ranking
40

Shahal Abbo publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shahal Abbo sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 149 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Shahal Abbo D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shahal Abbo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Gene
  • Botany
  • Genetics

Shahal Abbo mainly investigates Cultivar, Domestication, Botany, Agronomy and Adaptation. His Cultivar study incorporates themes from Germplasm and Germination. Shahal Abbo combines topics linked to Agriculture with his work on Domestication.

His studies in Botany integrate themes in fields like Habitat, Resistance and Horticulture. His work in the fields of Poaceae and Phenology overlaps with other areas such as Water content. His Adaptation research integrates issues from Crop, Genomics of domestication, Cropping, Genetic model and Plant evolution.

His most cited work include:

  • Rapid Elimination of Low-Copy DNA Sequences in Polyploid Wheat: A Possible Mechanism for Differentiation of Homoeologous Chromosomes (403 citations)
  • The Cradle of Agriculture (386 citations)
  • Modified CTAB Procedure for DNA Isolation from Epiphytic Cacti of the Genera Hylocereus and Selenicereus (Cactaceae) (239 citations)

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

His scientific interests lie mostly in Domestication, Botany, Agronomy, Cultivar and Genetics. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Gene pool, Agriculture, Crop and Taxon. His Agriculture study deals with Crop yield intersecting with Plant ecology.

His study in the field of Hybrid, Ascochyta and Hylocereus is also linked to topics like Didymella rabiei. His Cultivar research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Plant breeding, Germplasm and Sowing. His studies deal with areas such as Triticum urartu, Molecular biology and Polyploid as well as Chromosome.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Domestication (37.86%)
  • Botany (33.01%)
  • Agronomy (27.18%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2012-2021)?

  • Domestication (37.86%)
  • Botany (33.01%)
  • Agronomy (27.18%)

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

Shahal Abbo mainly focuses on Domestication, Botany, Agronomy, Ecology and Crop. Shahal Abbo combines subjects such as Gene pool, Genealogy, Inbred strain and Taxon with his study of Domestication. In the subject of general Botany, his work in Pisum, Genus, Trigonella and Wild species is often linked to Logical approach, thereby combining diverse domains of study.

Grain yield and Cultivar are among the areas of Agronomy where the researcher is concentrating his efforts. His research in the fields of Arable land overlaps with other disciplines such as Research community, Convergent evolution, Unconscious mind and Common denominator. The various areas that Shahal Abbo examines in his Crop study include Plant science and Biological evolution.

Between 2012 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Plant domestication versus crop evolution: a conceptual framework for cereals and grain legumes. (166 citations)
  • On the ‘lost’ crops of the neolithic Near East (39 citations)
  • The potential use of chickpeas in development of infant follow-on formula (27 citations)

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

  • Gene
  • Botany
  • Genetics

His primary areas of investigation include Domestication, Ecology, Agronomy, Crop and Convergent evolution. His research on Domestication often connects related topics like Ecosystem. His Ecology research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Gene pool, Biological evolution and Plant science.

His research in Agronomy is mostly concerned with Cultivar. His Crop study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Taxon, Agriculture, Poaceae and Habitat. Among his research on Convergent evolution, you can see a combination of other fields of science like Unconscious mind, Common denominator, Experimental work and Legume crops.

Best Publications

  • The Cradle of Agriculture

    Simcha Lev-Yadun;Avi Gopher;Shahal Abbo

  • Rapid Elimination of Low-Copy DNA Sequences in Polyploid Wheat: A Possible Mechanism for Differentiation of Homoeologous Chromosomes

    Moshe Feldman;Bao Liu;Gregorio Segal;Shahal Abbo

  • Modified CTAB Procedure for DNA Isolation from Epiphytic Cacti of the Genera Hylocereus and Selenicereus (Cactaceae)

    N. Tel-zur;S. Abbo;D. Myslabodski;Y. Mizrahi

  • Viewpoint: Evolution of cultivated chickpea: four bottlenecks limit diversity and constrain adaptation.

    Shahal Abbo;Jens Berger;Neil C. Turner

  • Genetics of flowering time in chickpea and its bearing on productivity in semiarid environments

    Jagdish Kumar;Shahal Abbo

  • Plant domestication versus crop evolution: a conceptual framework for cereals and grain legumes.

    Shahal Abbo;Ruth Pinhasi van-Oss;Avi Gopher;Yehoshua Saranga

  • Genomic dissection of drought resistance in durum wheat × wild emmer wheat recombinant inbreed line population

    Zvi Peleg;Zvi Peleg;Tzion Fahima;Tamar Krugman;Shahal Abbo

  • Construction of BAC and BIBAC libraries and their applications for generation of SSR markers for genome analysis of chickpea, Cicer arietinum L.

    Judith Lichtenzveig;Judith Lichtenzveig;Judith Lichtenzveig;C. Scheuring;J. Dodge;S. Abbo

  • Genetic analysis of wheat domestication and evolution under domestication

    Zvi Peleg;Tzion Fahima;Abraham B. Korol;Shahal Abbo

  • Genetic diversity for drought resistance in wild emmer wheat and its ecogeographical associations

    Z. Peleg;T. Fahima;S. Abbo;T. Krugman

  • Ecogeography of annual wild Cicer species: The poor state of the world collection

    Jens Berger;Shahal Abbo;Neil C. Turner

  • Cytology and mating systems in the climbing cacti Hylocereus and Selenicereus

    Judith Lichtenzveig;Shahal Abbo;Avinoam Nerd;Noemi Tel-Zur

  • Agricultural Origins: Centers and Noncenters; A Near Eastern Reappraisal

    Shahal Abbo;Simcha Lev-Yadun;Avi Gopher

  • Quantitative trait loci governing carotenoid concentration and weight in seeds of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)

    S. Abbo;C. Molina;R. Jungmann;M. A. Grusak

  • Osmotic adjustment in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) results in no yield benefit under terminal drought

    Neil C. Turner;Shahal Abbo;Jens D. Berger;Jens D. Berger;S. K. Chaturvedi

  • Genetic Relationships among Hylocereus and Selenicereus Vine Cacti (Cactaceae): Evidence from Hybridization and Cytological Studies

    Noemi Tel-Zur;Shahal Abbo;Dudy Bar-Zvi;Yosef Mizrahi

  • Plant Domestication and Crop Evolution in the Near East: On Events and Processes

    Shahal Abbo;Simcha Lev-Yadun;Avi Gopher

  • Mapping quantitative trait loci in chickpea associated with time to flowering and resistance to Didymella rabiei the causal agent of Ascochyta blight.

    Judith Lichtenzveig;Judith Lichtenzveig;Judith Lichtenzveig;David J. Bonfil;Hong-Bin Zhang;Dani Shtienberg

  • THE CHICKPEA, SUMMER CROPPING, AND A NEW MODEL FOR PULSE DOMESTICATION IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST

    Shahal Abbo;Dan Shtienberg;Judith Lichtenzveig;Simcha Lev‐Yadun

  • Allelic diversity associated with aridity gradient in wild emmer wheat populations

    Zvi Peleg;Zvi Peleg;Yehoshua Saranga;Tamar Krugman;Shahal Abbo

  • Chickpea domestication in the Neolithic Levant through the nutritional perspective

    Zohar Kerem;Simcha Lev-Yadun;Avi Gopher;Pnina Weinberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Simcha Lev-Yadun
Simcha Lev-Yadun University of Haifa
Avi Gopher
Avi Gopher Tel Aviv University
Zvi Peleg
Zvi Peleg Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yehoshua Saranga
Yehoshua Saranga Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jens Berger
Jens Berger Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Tzion Fahima
Tzion Fahima University of Haifa
Moshe Feldman
Moshe Feldman Weizmann Institute of Science
Neil C. Turner
Neil C. Turner University of Western Australia
Hong-Bin Zhang
Hong-Bin Zhang Texas A&M University
Yosef Mizrahi
Yosef Mizrahi Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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