Elisabeth Boyko
Elisabeth Boyko | |
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אליזבת בויקו | |
| Born | 24 September 1892 |
| Died | 14 December 1985 (aged 93) |
| Occupation | Botanist |
| Known for | William F. Petersen Award |
| Spouse | Hugo Boyko |
Elisabeth Boyko (Hebrew: אליזבת בויקו; 24 September 1892 – 14 December 1985) was an Austrian-Israeli botanist noted for pioneering the use of salt water for irrigation of desert plants in Israel, alongside her husband Hugo Boyko. She received the William F. Petersen Award from the International Society of Biometeorology.
Selected works
- Boyko, Elisabeth (1952). The building of a desert garden: the first year's experience of Elath at the north-eastern shore of the Red Sea. OCLC 474000312.
- Boyko, H; Boyko, Elisabeth (1959). Seawater irrigation: a new line of research on a bioclimatological plant-soil complex. International Society of Bioclomatiology and Biometeorology. OCLC 777926192.
- Boyko, Hugo; Boyko, Elisabeth (1964). Principles and Experiments Regarding Direct Irrigation with Highly Saline and Sea Water Without Desalination. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
References
- ↑ Bauer, Clayton C. (April 1964). "Desert Hope - Salt-Water Irrigation". The Rotarian. Rotary International: 26–29. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
- ↑ Glenn, Edward P.; Brown, J. Jed; O’Leary, James W. (1998). "Irrigating Crops with Seawater". Scientific American. 279 (2): 76–81. Bibcode:1998SciAm.279b..76G. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0898-76. JSTOR 26070601.
- ↑ Doerr, Arthur H.; Coling, Jerome F.; William S. Kerr, III (1970). "Agricultural Evolution in Israel in the Two Decades since Independence". Middle East Journal. 24 (3): 319–337. JSTOR 4324615.
- ↑ Ventura, Yvonne; Eshel, Amram; Pasternak, Dov; Sagi, Moshe (February 2015). "The development of halophyte-based agriculture: past and present". Annals of Botany. 115 (3): 529–540. doi:10.1093/aob/mcu173. PMC 4332600. PMID 25122652.
- ↑ Tromp, Solco Walle; Weihe, Wolf H. (1970). "Proceedings of the 2d- International Biometeorological Congress". Biometeorology: Proceedings of the International Biometeorological Congress. 4. Pergamon Press: 35–36.
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