Daniel Zohary: Geneticist and Explorer of Plant Domestication

Abstract

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 documentation of the Flora of Israel, whereas Daniel’s 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 scientific disciplines, such as botany, cytogenetics,