Environmental Economics and Management, Microeconomic models for industrial and farming behavior.

Institutional change in agriculture, land reform, farm restructuring, creation of service cooperatives.

Agricultural Statistics, Biostatistics, Spatial Variability.

Economics of water utilization and water policies; Agri-environmental integrated policy; Decision making under conditions of uncertainty; Counter-urbanization and development of rural areas.

Numerical Analysis, Numerical Solution of Flow Equations, Mathematical Models in Consumer Economics.

Structure and reactivity of radical-ion and free radical states in chemical and biological systems.

1935 - 2024

פרס קיי 2009

Clinical nutrition.

Psycho-social aspects of human eating behaviors.

Thermodynamics of critical solution mixtures.

Prevention of diabetes by dietary fibers and functional foods.

פרס קיי 2020

Theoretical and practical aspects of food processing and water soluble polymers.

Biochemistry and physiology of the chemical senses and their relevance to food and nutrition.

Emotional feeding model: experiences that establish emotional well-being.

Rehydration of food powders containing particulates; porous foods.

פרס רוטשילד 1998
פרס קיי 2001

Physical chemistry of humic substances, minerals and their interactions, Effects of organic matter on soil fertility and structure.

Flow in porous media, hydrology, soil-water relations, hysteresis, theoretical modeling of soil properties.

Water purification from chemicals and microorganisms by granulated micelle-clay complexes: experimental and modeling. Filtration and degradation.

Water Treatment Technology.

Solitons, diffraction of wave packets, fingering phenomena.

Environmental salinity and drought stresses: yield transpiration relation- ships, modeling, and management of irrigation and environment protection.

Molecular regulation of plant response to drought and salinity, Forestry biotechnology, Plant tissue culture and propagation, Plant gene-culture coevolution and niche construction.

Chlorophyll breakdown and chloroplast senescence; role of ethylene in citrus fruit ripening; flower induction in fruit trees; history and genetics of the Citron.

Population and Quantitative geneticist with experience in gene mapping projects aimed to detect genes (QTLs) controlling quantitative complex traits.

Interactions between viruses, their host plant and their insect vector; Virus indexing and plant resistance in the Middle East.

1931 - 2024

פרס ישראל תש"ף
פרס אמת 2015
פרס קיי 2017

Identification of genes and mechanisms for crop productivity.

Peanut crop improvement, Sugar metabolism in melon fruits, Petunia flowers development, Effects of salt stress on citrus cultures.

Quantitative genetics; genotype-by-environment interaction(GxE); chicken breeding, DNA markers, heat tolerance, ascites, immune response, fat deposition, water consumption and feed efficiency.

1934 - 2024

Nutrient consumption of field crops.

Evolution of cultivated crops; Chormosomal and genetic diversity in wild relatives.

Plant signal transduction, regulation of plant membrane transport, plant ion channels, bundle sheath.

Ecology of Mediterranean and semiarid plant communities, grazing effects, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, plant-environment interactions, climate change, physiology and ecology of seed germination.

פרס רוטשילד 2002
פרס קיי 2011
פרס קיי 1994

Vegetable physiology, breeding & seed production, esp. tomatoes, alliums and potatoes

Weed biology and management; herbicide physiology and action in crops, weeds and environment; Mechanisms of herbicide-resistance in weeds.

Mechanisms of controlling adventitious root formation, with an emphasis on auxin activity and metabolism. Genetics of forest trees.

Plant water relations, Plant gas exchange, Irrigation scheduling of orchards and vineyards based on physiological parameters.

פרס קיי 1999

Plant Responses to Environmental Abiotic Stresses; Phytoremediation of industrial sludges by the Nymphae is being developed for polluted sludge in Haifa Bay.

Biological nitrogen fixation.

Diseases and disease resistance in natural populations of crop progenitors.

פרס ישראל תשנ״ו
פרס אמת 2003
פרס רוטשילד 1990
פרס וולף 1998

Biological control of soilborne plant diseases by using antagonistic organisms.

Bacterial biocontrol of pathogens.

פרס ישראל תשע״ד
פרס רוטשילד 1994

Biology, ecology and control of soil-borne plant pathogens, Soil solarization.

פרס קיי 1996

Phytoalexins in citrus, Biological control of mildews, Insect and mite control by fungi.

Comparative medicine. Diseases transmitted from animals to man.

 Cell Biology, Muscle Development.

Avian immune response.

Reproduction in the dairy cow.

Carcinogenesis in farm animals and in other animal models.

Endocrinology.

Nutrition.

Infectious and zoonotic diseases of companion animals.

Normal and pathological physiology of the vertebrate central nervous system. 

Bone biomechanics, experimental  and numerical/analytical modeling.