Institute of Soil,
Water and Environmental Sciences
Agricultural Research Organization,
The Volcani Center,
P.O.Box 6, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel
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Research
Interests
Sap flow measurements for determination of plant water requirement
Water regime of forests in arid regions
Environmental physiology of crops and forests
Climate control in greenhouses
Interaction between transpiration and sensitivity to saline water
Recent
Publications
Cohen, Y., Fuchs M. and Green, G.C. (198l). Improvement of the heat pulse
method for determination of sap flow in trees. Plant Cell Environ.
4: 39l-397.
Cohen, S. and Cohen, Y. (l983). Field studies of leaf conductance to environmental
variables in citrus. J. Appl. Ecol. 20: 561-570.
Cohen Y., Stanhill, G. and Fuchs, M. F.(1983).An experimental comparison
of evaporative cooling in a naturally ventilated glasshouse due to wetting
the outer roof and inner crop soil surfaces. Agric. Meteorol. 28: 239-25l.
Cohen, Y., Fuchs, M. and Cohen, S. (l983). Resistance to water uptake in
a mature citrus tree. J. Exp. Bot. 34: 451-460.
Cohen, Y., Moreshet, S. and Fuchs, M. (l984). Change in transpiration rate
of mature citrus trees in response to a reduction of wetted soil volume. Acta
Hort. 171: 45-50.
Cohen, Y., Kelliher, F.M. and Black, T.A. (l985). Determination of sap flow
in Douglas?fir trees using the heat pulse technique. Can. For. Res.
15: 422-428.
Cohen, Y., Moreshet, S. and Fuchs, M. (l987). Changes in hydraulic conductance
of citrus trees following a reduction in wetted soil volume. Plant. Cell
& Environ. 10: 53-57.
Fuchs, M., Cohen, Y. and Moreshet, S. (l987). Determining transpiration
from meteorological data and crop characteristics for irrigation management.
Irrig. Sci. 8: 91-99.
Cohen, Y., Fuchs, M., Falkenflug, V. and Moreshet, S. (l988). Calibrated
heat pulse method for determining water uptake in cotton. Agron. J.
78: 398-402.
Fuchs, M., Cohen, Y. and Moreshet, S. (l989). Experimental verification
of a meteorological transpiration model. Agronomie 9: 827-832.
Cohen Y. (1991). Determination of Orchard water requirement by a combined
trunk sap flow and meteorological approach. Irrig. Sci. 12: 93-98.
Cohen, Y., Takeuchi, S., Nozaka, J. and Yano, T. (1993).Accuracy of sap
flow measurement in herbaceous plants using heat balance or heat pulse methods.
Agron. J. 85: 1080-1086.
Cohen, Y. (1994).Thermoelectric methods for measurement of sap flow in plants.
In: G. Stanhill (ed) Advances in Bioclimatology, Vol. 3 Springer-Verlag,
Heidelberg, Germany 3:63-89
Cohen, Y., Plaut, Z., Meiri, A. and Hadas, A. (1995). Impact of deficit
irrigation on water use from clay soil with shallow ground water table. Agron.
J. 87:808-814.
Cohen, Y. and Li, Y. (1996).Validating sap flow measurement in field grown
sunflower and corn. J. exp. Bot. 47: 1699-1707.
Cohen, Y., Adar, E., Dody, A. and Schiller, G. (1997). Water use by mature
Eucalyptus trees under unlimited water supply. Trees 11: 356-362.
Salih, A.A., Ali, I.A., Lux, A., Luxova, M., Cohen, Y., Sugimoto, Y., and
Inanaga, S. (1999). Rooting Water Uptake, and xylem structure adaptation to
drought of two sorghum cultivars. Crop Sciene 39:168-173
Li, Y., Fuchs, M., Cohnen, S., Cohen, Y., and Wallach, R. (2001). Water
uptake profile response of corn to soil moisture depletion. Plant Cell
Environ. 25: 491-500.
Schiller, G., Unger, E.D and Y. Cohen (2002). Estimating Water use by sclerophyllous
species under east Mediterranean climate. I. Response of transpiration of
Phillyrea latifolia L. to site factors. For. Ecol. Management. 170:117-126.
Li Y., Cohen Y., Wallach R., Cohen S and Fuchs M. 2003. On quantifying
soil water deficit of a partially wetted root zone for the response of canopy
or leaf conductance. Agriculture Water Management, Agriculture Water Management
1872 :1-18.
Fholliott P.F ; Gottfried G. J ; Cohen Y and Schiller G. 2003. Transpiraiton
by dryland oaks : studies in the south-western United States and northern
Israel. J. Arid Environ. 55: 595-605
Yehezkel Cohen Ph.D.