Samuel Moreshet Ph.D (Emeritus)

Email:	mulu@volcani.agri.gov.il
Tel:	+972-3-9683661
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Department of Environmental Physics and Irrigation
Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences
Agricultural Research Organization,
The Volcani Center,
P.O.Box 6, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel

Research Interests

Environmental plant physiology
Water transport from soil through the plant and to the atmosphere
Plant-water relationships
Plant hydraulic conductance
Leaf and canopy conductance, including stomatal behavior
Crop water requirements and irrigation
Agricultural archaeology of Israel

Selected Publications

Cohen, Y., M. Fuchs, V. Falkenflug and S. Moreshet (1988). Calibrated heat pulse method for determining water uptake in cotton. Agron. J. 80:398-402.
Fuchs, M., Y. Cohen, S. Moreshet and Y. Cohen (1989). Experimental verification of a meteorological transpiration model. Agronomie 9:827-832.
Moreshet S., Y. Cohen, G.S. Green and M. Fuchs (1990). The partitioning of hydraulic conductances within mature orange trees. J. Exp. Bot. 40:833-839.
Moreshet, S., M.G. Huck, J.D. Hesketh and D.B. Peters (1990). Relationships between sap flow and hydraulic conductivity in soybean plants. Agronomie 10:381-389.
Petersen, K.L., S. Moreshet and M. Fuchs (1991). Sunlit and shaded stomatal responses of field grown cotton to radiation and soil moisture. Agron. J. 83(6):1059-1065.
Stanhill, G. and S. Moreshet (1991). World radiation climate change: the world network. Climate Change 21:57-75.
Petersen, K.L., M. Fuchs, S. Moreshet, Y. Cohen and H. Sinoquet (1992). Computing transpiration of sunlit and shaded cotton foliage under variable water stress. Agron J. 84:91-97.
Stanhill, G. and S. Moreshet (1992). Global radiation climate change in Israel. Climate Change 22:121-138.
Petersen, K.L., S. Moreshet, M. Fuchs, A. Schwarz (1992). Field cotton stomatal responses to light spectral composition and variable soil moisture. European J. Agron. 1(2):117-123.
Stanhill, G. and S. Moreshet (1994) Global radiation climate at seven sites remote from surface sources of pollution. Climate Change 26:89-103
Moreshet, S., Yefet Cohen, Marcel Fuchs, Hezi Cohen, and Avraham Meiri (1995). Water conductance in cotton: Comparing plants irrigated by drippers in every interrow space to those irrigated in every 2nd interrow space. Hassadeh, (reviewed article). 76(2):25-29.
Moreshet, S, D.C. Bridges, D.S. NeSmith, and B. Huang (1996).
Effects of water deficit stress on competitive interactions of peanut and sicklepod. Agron. J. 88:636-644.
Moreshet, S., Marcel. Fuchs, Yehezkel. Cohen, Yefet Cohen, and M. Langensiepen (1996). Water transport characteristics of cotton as affected by drip irrigation layout. Agron. J. 88:717-722.
Moreshet, S., B. Huang, and M. G. Huck (1997) Water Permeability of Roots. In. Y. Waisel, A. Eshel, and U. Kafkafi (Eds) Plant Roots - the Hidden Half 2nd Edition. Marcel
Cohen, S., S. Moreshet, M. Cohen, and L. Le Guillou (1997). Response of citrus trees to modified radiation regime in semi-arid conditions. J. Exp. Botany (48:35-44).
Moreshet S. , S. Cohen, Z. Assor, and M. Bar-Joseph (1998). Water relations of citrus exocortis viroid-infected grapefruit trees in the field. J. Exp. Botany (49: 1421-1430).
Aloni, B., L. Karni, I. Rylski, Y. Cohen, Y. Lee, M. Fuchs, S. Moreshet, and C. Yao (1998). Cuticular cracking in pepper fruit: I. Effects of night temperature and humidity. J.Hort. Sci. & Biotechnology (73: 743-749).
Aloni, B., L. Karni, I. S. Moreshet, C. Yao, and C. Stanghellini (1999). Cuticular cracking in pepper fruit: II. Effects of fruit water relations and fruit expansion. J.Hort. Sci. & Biotechnology (74: 1-5).
Moreshet, S., C. Yao, B. Aloni, L. Karni, and C. Stanghellini (1999).Environmental factors affecting the cracking of greehouse-grown pepper fruit. J.Hort. Sci. & Biotechnology (74: 6-12).
S. Moreshet, H. Bergamaschi, M. Langensiepen, S. Cohen and J.I. Bergonzi (1999) Validating the output from a transpiration model for a well watered and a stressed corn (Zea maize) Crop by sap flow measurement. Proc. Int. Symp. "World Food Security Kyoto (183-187).
C.Yao, S. Moreshet, B. Aloni, L. Karni (2000) Effects of climatic factors and water stress on the diurnal fluctuation in diameter of bell pepper fruit. J.Hort. Sci. & Biotechnology (75: 6-11).
C. Yao, , S. Moreshet, B. Aloni (2001) Water relations and hydraulic control of stomatal behaviour in bell pepper plant in partial soil drying. Plant Cell and En 235

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