AMOS DOVRAT
Born 1920, Rotterdam; Ph.D. 1963, Hebrew Univ.; Lect.
1959; Sen. Lect. 1964; Assoc. Prof. 1970; 1982; Emeritus
1990.
1949 Emigrate to Israel.
1949-1954: Govt. Agric. Res. Station, Neveh Yaaar,
Research Scientist, Forage and Pasture Crops.
1954-1965: Volcani Agric. Res. Station, Headquarters,
Beit Dagan, Head, Forage Crops Dept.
1960-present. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of
Agriculture, Dept. Field, Vegetables and Genetics at
Rehovot.
1947 Univ. of Wales, Welsh Plant Breeding Station,
Aberystwyth, student assistant.
1962-63 Univ. California, Davis Visiting Lecturer,
Agronomy and Range Science Rockefeller Travel Grant.
1969-70 Agricultural University, Wageningen, Visiting
Professor, Dept. Agronomy and Grassland Husbandry.
1982-83 United Nations-Israel, Regional Project for Arid
Zone Research, Science Coordinator, Santiago (Chile).
1988-89 University of Reading. Dept. of Agriculture,
Research Fellow, and Grassland Research Institute, Hurley
Academic and administrative positions.
1953 Ten months Fellowship, F.A.O., Commonwealth Science
and Industrial Research Organization, Div. Plant Industry,
Canberra, Australia, and Div. Science and Industrial
Research Wellington, New Zealand.
1964-70 Research Conducted under Grant Public Law 480.
Determining the influence of environment on genetic shifts
in forage crops.
1971-75 Chairman, Faculty Research Committee.
1973-78 Holland-Israel Cooperative Research Project.
Simulation of growth and response to cutting of Rhodes Grass
Chloris gayana Kunth. Principal Investigator.
1978-82 Editorial Advisory Board, Agro-Ecosystems
Elsevier Amsterdam.
1980-85 Egypt-Israel-United States Cooperative Arid Lands
Agriculture Research Program. Forage specialist. Agency for
International Development, Washington, DC.
1981-85 Holland-Israel Cooperative Research Project for
less developed countries Production and water use of several
food and fodder crops under irrigation in the desert area of
southwestern Peru. Co-investigator.
1986-89 Chairman, Dept. Field Crops, Vegetables and
Genetics.
Research Interests:
Forage crop physiology and production. Nitrogen fixation
in Mediterranean pasture plants. Genetic resources.
Marchaim, U., Y. Birk, A. Dovrat and Berman. 1970.
Alfalfa saponins as inhibitors of cotton seed germination.
Plant Cell Physiology. 11:511-514.
Dayan, E., H. van Keulen and A. Dovrat. 1981.
Experimental evaluation of a growth simulation model. A case
study with Rhodes grass. Agro-Ecosystems 7:113-126.
Dovrat, A. (1993) Irrigated Forage Production.
(Developments in Crop Science, vol. 24) Amsterdam, Elsevier,
xiii + 257pp.
Recent Publications
Sagi, M, A. Dovrat, T. Kipnis and S.H. Lips, 1997 Ionic
balance, biomass production and organic nitrogen source in
annual ryegrass. J. Plant Nutr. 20: 1291-1316.
Sagi, M., A. Dovrat, T.Kipnis and S.H. Lips, 1998.
Nitrate reductase, phosphoeolpyrovate carboxylase and
glutamine synthetase in annual ryegrass as affected by
salinity and nitrogen. J. Plant . Nutr. 21: 707-723.
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