Prof. Yacov Tsur
Emeritus
Ruth Ochberg Chair in Agriculture
Natural resource and environmental economics, Dynamic models in natural resource management.
organizational affiliation
Prof. Avi Simhon
Associate Professor
Technological change, macroeconomics, economic growth and development economics.
Dr. Guni Orshan
In Memoriam
Environmental Economics and Management
IN MEMORY OF
Dr. Guni Orshan
Passed in 2022
Game theory and its applications
Prof. Ayal Kimhi
Associate Professor
Sir Henry d'Avigdor Goldsmid Professor of Agricultural Economics
The economics of family farms; Public policy in agriculture, labor markets, education and aging. Structural changes in the farm sector; Farmers' time allocation, exit and retirement decisions; Intergenerational transfers and farm succession.
Prof. Iddo Kan
Associate Professor
Environmental and natural resource economics, land-use modeling, water and waste management, political economics.
Prof. Amir Heiman
Professor
Pre-Purchase Risk-Reduction Marketing Mechanisms, Branding and promotion of agricultural products.
Prof. Aliza Fleischer
Emerita
Economics of tourism, Rural tourism, Economic value of open space & agricultural landscape.
Prof. Israel Finkelshtain
Associate Professor
Sam M. Cohodas Chair in Agricultural Economics
Environmental Economics and Management.
Prof. Eyal Ert
Professor, Vice Dean for International Affairs
Adaptive decision-making, risk-taking and risk perception
Dr. Avraham Ebenstein
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Environmental economics, health economics, development economics and economic demography.
Dr. Dizza Bursztyn
Senior Teacher
Bio-statistics, Para-clinical statistics, Design of experiments, Computer experiments.
Dr. Ziv Bar-Shira
Retired
Agricultural production under uncertainty (applications to insurance), Technological change in agriculture, Non-parametric methods in economics.
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Prof. Shahal Abbo
Professor
Jacob and Rachel Liss Chair in Agronomy
Crop evolution in the Near East, Genetics and breeding of chickpea
Under just the right light, ice turns into a twisting labyrinth
Ice absorbs near-infrared light more efficiently than does water, triggering the formation of intricate patterns.
Evolution of grain yield
Decoding the genetic basis of floret fertility in wheat - A high grain yield is undoubtedly a desirable trait in cereal crops. Floret fertility is a key factor which determines the number of grains per inflorescence of cereals such as bread wheat or barley. Nonetheless, until recently little was known about its genetic basis. Whilst investigating floret fertility, a group of researchers have now discovered the locus Grain Number Increase 1 (GNI1), an important contributor to floret fertility. A writeup from Science Daily of an international collaboration, including researchers from the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, to decode the genetic basis of floret fertility in wheat.
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The research was published in PNAS:
Unleashing floret fertility in wheat through the mutation of a homeobox gene
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