Elisabeth Boyko
Austrian-Israeli botanist (1892–1985)
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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.[1][2][3][4] She received the William F. Petersen Award from the International Society of Biometeorology.[5]
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.
