Yaacov Okon

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in Israel Leader Award
• 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Israel Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in Israel Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Israel Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Microbiology in Israel Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Israel Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Microbiology in Israel Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Plant Growth-Promoting Effects of Diazotrophs in the Rhizosphere

  Sofie Dobbelaere;Jozef Vanderleyden;Yaacov Okon

  1457
  Citations

• Agronomic applications of azospirillum: An evaluation of 20 years worldwide field inoculation

  Yaacov Okon;Carlos A. Labandera-Gonzalez

  959
  Citations

• Responses of agronomically important crops to inoculation with Azospirillum

  Sofie Dobbelaere;Anja Croonenborghs;Amber Thys;David Ptacek

  711
  Citations

• Methods for Growing Spirillum lipoferum and for Counting It in Pure Culture and in Association with Plants.

  Yaacov Okon;Stephan L. Albrecht;R. H. Burris

  557
  Citations

• Azospirillum as a potential inoculant for agriculture

  Yaacov Okon

  485
  Citations

• Indole-3-acetic acid: a reciprocal signalling molecule in bacteria-plant interactions

  Mark Lambrecht;Yaacov Okon;Ann Vande Broek;Jos Vanderleyden

  481
  Citations

• Development and function of Azospirillum -inoculated roots

  Y. Okon;Y. Kapulnik

  405
  Citations

• Development and function ofAzospirillum-inoculated roots

  Y. Okon;Y. Kapulnik

  330
  Citations

• Ecological and Agricultural Significance of Bacterial Polyhydroxyalkanoates

  Daniel Kadouri;Edouard Jurkevitch;Yaacov Okon;Susana Castro-Sowinski

  324
  Citations

• Enhanced Mineral Uptake by Zea mays and Sorghum bicolor Roots Inoculated with Azospirillum brasilense

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  305
  Citations

• Key physiological properties contributing to rhizosphere adaptation and plant growth promotion abilities of Azospirillum brasilense.

  Sharon Fibach-Paldi;Saul Burdman;Yaacov Okon

  303
  Citations

• Effect of Azospirillum brasilense coinoculated with Rhizobium on Phaseolus vulgaris flavonoids and Nod factor production under salt stress

  Marta S. Dardanelli;Marta S. Dardanelli;Francisco J. Fernández de Córdoba;M. Rosario Espuny;Miguel A. Rodríguez Carvajal

  291
  Citations

• A Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungus (Glomus intraradix) Induces a Defense Response in Alfalfa Roots

  Hanne Volpin;Yonatan Elkind;Yaacov Okon;Yoram Kapulnik

  285
  Citations

• Effect of inoculation with wild type Azospirillum brasilense and A. irakense strains on development and nitrogen uptake of spring wheat and grain maize

  Sofie Dobbelaere;Anja Croonenborghs;Amber Thys;David Ptacek

  251
  Citations

• Effects of inoculation with plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria on resident rhizosphere microorganisms.

  Susana Castro-Sowinski;Susana Castro-Sowinski;Yoav Herschkovitz;Yaacov Okon;Edouard Jurkevitch

  251
  Citations

• Chapter 7 Plant Growth-Promoting Actions of Rhizobacteria

  Stijn Spaepen;Jozef Vanderleyden;Yaacov Okon

  247
  Citations

• Involvement of the Reserve Material Poly-β-Hydroxybutyrate in Azospirillum brasilense Stress Endurance and Root Colonization

  Daniel Kadouri;Edouard Jurkevitch;Yaacov Okon

  241
  Citations

• Changes in root morphology of wheat caused by Azospirillum inoculation

  Yoram Kapulnik;Yaacov Okon;Yigel Henis

  228
  Citations

• The development of Azospirillum as a commercial inoculant for improving crop yields.

  Yaacov Okon;Robin Itzigsohn

  199
  Citations

• Identification and quantification of IAA and IBA in Azospirillum brasilense-inoculated maize roots

  Elazar Fallik;Yaacov Okon;Ephraim Epstein;Alexander Goldman

  197
  Citations

• Aggregation in Azospirillum brasilense: effects of chemical and physical factors and involvement of extracellular components

  Saul Burdman;Edouard Jurkevitch;Boris Schwartsburd;Michal Hampel

  192
  Citations

• Recent advances in the use of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in agriculture.

  S. Burdman;E. Jurkevitch;Y. Okon

  189
  Citations

• Production of the reserve material poly-β-hydroxybutyrate and its function in Azospirillum brasilense Cd

  Sara Tal;Yaacov Okon

  185
  Citations