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Kaye Innovation Award for recognizing sesame's value to a hungry planet
By screening more than 100,000 sesame seed variants, Dr. Zvi Peleg has found a way to develop a new elite sesame cultivar with enhanced yield and seed quality suitable for modern agricultural practice. Peleg is a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University's Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture
The Emet Prize in Life Sciences and Agriculture is awarded to Prof. Dani Zamir for his groundbreaking research of the genetic control of complex quantitative traits and the application of his studies to plant breeding.