Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Role: the Professional Advisory Committee
Professor
Emeritus in Agricultural Microbiology. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Israel. Professor Okon has worked on biological nitrogen fixation and plant
growth promoting effects in associations of rhizophere bacteria-Azospirillum
brasilense and roots of grasses, and on coinoculation of legumes with
rhizobia and azospirilla. An important achievement is that there are millions
of hectares of maize and other plants of economic interest, inoculated with
commercial inoculants of Azospirillum.