Abstract
Since their establishment, The Institutes for Applied Research of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have been continuously involved in the introduction and development of new crops for the arid and semi-arid regions of Israel. The conceptual basis of this work has evolved in accordance with the development of Israeli agriculture. The progress achieved in eight projects is reviewed in this paper. They include perennial fodder plants for improvement of dryland pasture, selection and cultivation of halophytes with seawater irrigation, industrial crops (jojoba, buffalo gourd, evening primrose, senna), drought- and salinity-resistant ornamentals and new ornamental products for export (cut flowers, cut branches and potted plants). Several of these projects, like those on jojoba and several ornamentals, have reached the stage of commercial exploitation.
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