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Daniel Zohary: Geneticist and Explorer
of Plant Domestication
Giora Simchen
Department of Genetics
Institute of Life Sciences
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Givat-Ram Campus
Jerusalem, Israel
I. EARLY DAYS
II. GENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG RELATED PLANT SPECIES
III. DOMESTICATION OF CROPS AND FRUIT TREES
IV. THE SCIENTIFIC APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY OF DANIEL ZOHARY
V. THE TOPIC
VI. AWARDS, HONORS, AND RECOGNITION
VII. PERSONALITY
LITERATURE CITED AND SELECTED PUBLICATIONS OF DANIEL ZOHARY
Daniel Zohary is a botanist, geneticist, and cytogeneticist. He occupies
the middle link in a dynasty of three professors of biology at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. His father, Michael Zohary, was a renowned
botanist who laid the foundation to comprehensive accounts and docu-
mentation of the Flora of Israel, whereas Daniel
is son, Ehud Zohary, is a
neurobiologist specializing in functional magnetic resonance imaging of
the brain. Professor Zohary (known to all in Israel as Danny) is mostly
recognized as an explorer of plant domestication and of the rise of
agriculture and Neolithic settlements in the Fertile Crescent. His
research and long career are marked by the employment of expertise
from different scienti
'
c disciplines, such as botany, cytogenetics,
