Books By Bijan Dehgan - Author

Bijan Dehgan received degrees in Agricultural engineering from Shiraz University (in Iran), certificate in American Language from Columbia University, BS and MS in landscape and Environmental Horticulture and Ph.D. in botany (plant taxonomy, under Professor Grady L. Webster) at the University of California, Davis.  While working on systematic of the genus Jatropha (Euphorbiaceae), he was a lecturer in Environmental Horticulture and curator of the Botanical Conservatory.  He was the principal researcher on selection and propagation of drought tolerant plants for California highways.  He transferred to the Department of Environmental Horticulture at the University of Florida in 1978 and retired as emeritus professor in 2006.  Although the principal investigator in several research projects, his primary focus remained on taxonomy of Jatropha and successful conservation of the endangered cycads through their propagation andgrowth, so as to prevent collection of wild plants. Abundance of Zamia pumila (=Z. floridan