National Research Centre
Agricultural & Biological Research Division
Fertilization Technology Department
Prof. Dr. El-Zanaty A.A. Abou El-Nour
E-mail:zanatya@hotmail.com
zanatyaly@yahoo.com
Prof. Abou El-Nour, Research Professor of Plant Nutrition, Fertilization Technology
Department, National Research Centre, was born on April 10, 1955. He married with three
daughters. He graduated from Al-Azhr University with B.Sc. in Agriculture (Agronomy) in 1979.
He awarded M. Sc. from the same University in 1987. He awarded Ph. D. from Cairo University in
1994 Through a DAAD Scholarship to West Germany, Technical University of Munich in 1989.
Prof. Abou El-Nour participated in several research projects: “Micronutrient and Other
Plant Nutrition Problems in Egypt” supported by FRG, Ministry of Economic Cooperation and
ASRT since 1981 till now. “Optimization of the Use of Micronutrient Fertilizers”. Salt Control
Project “Control of Stalinization and Combating Desertification Effect in the Mediterranean
Region, Phase II, Supported by Program INCO-DC. He attended several national and
international conferences and meetings. He supervised one Ph. D. and one M. Sc. theses.
Published 39 scientific papers in local and international journals and conferences.
List of publications
1- Eweida, M.H.T., A.M. Hassanien, A.H. Firgany and E. A.A. Abou El-Nour, 1989.
Comparative study on growth, some chemical content and yield productivity of broad bean at
different levels of micronutrients from two sources as foliar spray. African J. Agric. Sci., 16 (1+2):
97 – 106.
2- Shaaban, M.M. , A. A. El-Sayed and E. A.A. Abou El-Nour, 1995. Copper translocation and
toxicity in wheat plants. Egypt. J. Appl. Sci., 10, (12): 39-51
3- Abou El-Nour, E. A.A., A.A. El- sayed and A.A. El-Bendary, 1996. Effect of phosphate
biofertilizer “ Phosphorein “ on growth, yield and nutrient uptake of fababean plants. J. Agric. Sci.
Mansoura Univ., 21, (2): 477-483.
4- Salama, Z. A., M. M. Shaaban and E. A.A. Abou El-Nour, 1996.
Effect of iron foliar
application on increasing tolerance of maize seedlings to saline irrigation water. Egypt. J. Appl.
Sci., 11, (1): 169-175.
5- Fawzi A.F.A., M. M. Shaaban and E. A.A. Abou El-Nour, 1996. Nutritional status and
nutrients removed by the fruits of three mango cultivars grown under farm conditions. J. Agric.
Sci. Mansoura Univ. , 21 , (6) : 2301-2317
6- Shaaban M.M. and E. A.A Abou El-Nour, 1996. The nutrient balance in Egyptian clover (
Trifolium alexandrinium ) as affected the yield . J. Agric. Sci. Mansoura Univ., 21, (6): 2293-2299.
7- El-Fouly, M.M. A. Amberger, M.R. Shabana and E. A.A. Abou El-Nour, 1997. Tolerance of
fababean genotypes to low zinc using crabonic anhydrase (CA) activity as screening technique.
T.Ando et al (Eds), Plant nutrition- for sustainable food production and environment. 273-274,
Kluwer Academic Publishers.
8- El- Sayed, A.A. and E. A.A. Abou El-Nour, 1998. Effect of barley seed soaking in zinc on
growth and nutrients uptake by plants. J. Agric. Sci. Mansoura Univ., 23, (8): 4103-4110.
9- Abou El-Nour, E. A.A. , 1998. Effect of spraying EDTA- multi micronutrients compound on
growth, yield as well as macro and micronutrients status of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) J. Agric.
Sci. Mansoura Univ., 23, (12): 5965-5975.
10- Abou El-Nour, E. A.A., M.M. Shaaban and Z.M. Mobarak, 1999. Predicting nitrogen
nutriental status of wheat, maize and sugar beet using a handhold chlorophyll meter. Egypt. J.
Physiology: 123-131.
11- El-Bendary, A.A. ; E. A.A. Abou El-Nour and A.A. El-Sayed , 1999. Response of Maize
hybrids to Fe-stress in calcareous soil. Alex. J. Agric. 44 (1): 181-190.
12- El-Fouly, M. M. and E. A.A. Abou El-Nour, 1999. Registration and use of foliar fertilizers in
Egypt. Proc. Symp.” Foliar Fertilization: A Technique to Improve Production and Decrease
Pollution “,10-14 Dec. Cairo, Egypt, Eds. M.M. El-Fouly et al: 1-5.
13- Shaaban, M.M., A. A. El-Sayed and E. A.A. Abou El-Nour, 1999. Predicting Nitrogen,
Magnesium and iron nutritional status in some perennial crops using a portable chlorophyll meter.
Scientia Horticulturae: 339-348.
14- El-Fouly, M.M.; E.A.A. Abou El-Nour; M.R. Shabana and Z.M. Moubarak, 1999. Response
of faba bean genotypes to low and high zinc levels. J. Plant Nutrition –Molecular Biology and
Genetics: 199-204.
15- El-Fouly, M.M.; A.F.A. Fawzi and E.A.A. Abou El-Nour, 2000. Genotypic differences of
Egyptian Faba bean cultivars in their reaction to zinc deficiency. X th Inter. Colloq. For
Optimization of Plant Nutrition "Plant Nutrition for the Next Millennium: Nutrients, Yield, Quality
and the Environment". 8-13 April 2000, Cairo, Egypt. .
16- Abou El-Nour, E.A.A., 2001. Differnatial response of some faba bean (Vicia faba L.) cultivars
to zinc foliar spray. J. Agric.Sci. Mansoura Univ., 26 (2): 843 – 850.
17- Abou El-Nour, E.A.A., 2002. Growth and nutrients contents response of maize to foliar
nutrition with micronutrients under irrigation with saline water. OnLine Journal of Biological
Science, 2 (2): 92 - 97.
18- Abou El-Nour, E.A.A., 2002. Can supplemented potassium foliar feeding reduce the
recommended soil potassium?. Pakistan Journal of Biological Science, 5 (3): 259 - 262.
19- Shabaan, M.M., M.A. Mostafa and E.A.A. Abou El-Nour, 2002. Evaluation of magnesium
and iron nutritional status in some monocot and dicot crop plants using a portable chlorophyll
meter. Pakistan Journal of Biological Science, 5 (10): 1014 - 1016.
20- Abou El-Nour, E.A.A., M.M. Shabaan and A.A. El-Sayed, 2000. Improving sugar beet
grown in calcareous soil through chelated iron foliar feeding. Egypt. J. Physiol. Sci. 24 (2-3): 319328. (Published 2003)
21- El-Fouly, M.M.; E.A.A. Abou El-Nour and M.M. Shabaan, 2002. Salt removing potential of
Cynara and Sueada halophyte species. 2nd Saudi Symp.on Halphytes Plantation, Riyadh, 17-20
March 2002.
22- El-Sayed, A.A., E.A.A. Abou El-Nour and O.A. Nofal, 2003. Response of growth and yield
of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) to potassium fertilization in relation to nitrogin source. Al-Azhar J.
Agric. Research, 38 (12): 105-116.
23- Abou El-Nour, E.A.A. and A.A. Abdel-Magiud, 2003. Foliar feeding of NPK as partial
substitution of soil applied fertilizers for improving corn growth and decrease pollution. Al-Azhar J.
Agric. Research, 38 (12): 117-128.
24- Abdel-Magiud, A.A. , M.M. El-Fouly and E.A.A. Abou El-Nour , 2004. Copper as yield
limiting nutrient for wheat. Bull. Fac. Agric. Cairo Univ., 55:385-400.
25- El-Fouly, M.M.; E.A.A. Abou El-Nour, and A.A. Abdel-Maguid, 2004. Counteracting effect
of macronutrients foliar application on spinach beet (Beta vulgaris cycla) grown under NaClsalinity stress. Bull. Fac. Agric. Cairo Univ., 55:587-602.
26- Shabaan, M.M., M.M. El-Fouly , E.A.A. Abou El-Nour and A.A. Abdel-Maguid, 2004.
Halophytes and foliar fertilization as a useful technique for growing processing tomatoes in the
saline affected soils. Pakistan Journal of Biological Science, 7 (4): 503 - 507.
27- El-Bendary, A.A. ; Amal Abd El- Aziz; O. A. Nofal; E.A.A. Abou El-Nour and M.F. El-Masry,
2004. Identification of ferritin gene assocated with iron accumulation in some local wheat
cultivars. Egypt. J. Gent. Cytol.,33 , July: 403-413.
28. Osman, S.E.M. ; F.E. Abdalla; O.M.S. Harb; M.M. Shaaban; E.A.A. Abou El-Nour and
A.M. El-Saady, 2005. Boron foliar fertilization increases nitrogen fertilization and improves yield
and yield quality of wheat plants grown under sandy soil conditions. Egypt. J. Agric. Res., 2
(1):323-347.
29. Abou El-Nour, E.A.A. and A.I. Rezk and M.M. El-Fouly, 2005. Plant nutrition under salinity
condition (A Review). Egypt. J. Agric. Res., 2 (1):349-363.
30- Shabaan, M.M., F.E. Abdalla , E.A.A. Abou El-Nour and A.M. El-Saady 2006
Born-zinc relationship in cotton plants under low or high lime levels in the soil. Egypt. J. Agron.
28(1): 1-17
31- Shabaan, M.M., M.M. El-Fouly and E.A.A. Abou El-Nour,2006. Boron/nitrogen interaction
effect on growth and yield of faba bean plants grown under sandy soil condition. International
Journal of Agricultureal Research 1 (4): 322-330.
32-
Abou El-Nour, E.A.A., Rizk, A.I. and El-Fouly, M.M. ,2006. Modern methods for
counteracting salinity stress. Proc. 2nd Int. Con. On “ Water Resources and Arid Environment”
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 26-29 Nov., 2006.
33- Final Report: Salt Control. Control of Salinization and Combating Desertification Effects in
the Mediterranean Region.
34- Abou El-Nour, E.A.A., and El-Fouly, M.M. and M.M. Shabaan, 2008. Halophytes as a tool
for counteracting salinity stress. The 17th Inter. Symp. Of CIEC "Plant Nutrient Management
under Stress Conditions", NRC, 24-27 Nov. 2008.
ِ35- Abou Seeda, M. Abdel-Sabour, M. And Abou El-Nour, E.A.A., 2009. Innovative bioapproach for economic and efficient sewage and industrial effluents remediation. The
International Conference on “Water Conservation in Arird Regions.” The Water Research Center
at King Abdulaziz Univ. Jedda, Saudi Arabia, 12-14 October, 2009.
36- El-Sayed, A.B. ; El-Fouly, M.M. And E.A.A. Abou El-Nour, 2010. Biological desalination of
the Red Sea water by green algae. ٍSecond International Conference On “Phycology, limnology
and Aquatic Sciences” 14-15 February 2010 Port Said, Egypt.
37- El-Fouly, M.M. ; Rezk, A.I. ; Nofal, O.A. and Abou El-Nour, E.A.A., 2010. Depletion of
Magnesium I=in Egypt ian soils, its content in crops and estimated needs. African J. Agric. Res. ,
5 (1):1060-1067.
38- El-Sayed, A.B. ; El-Fouly, M.M. and Abou El-Nour, E.A.A., 2010. Immobilized microalga
Scenedsmus sp. For biological desalination of Red Sea water: I. Effect on growth. Nuture and
Science, 8 (9): 69-76.
39- Yassen. A. ; Abou El-Nour, E.A.A. and Shedeed,s. ,2010. Response of wheat folis spray
with Urea and micronutrients. J. American Science, 6 (9): 14-22.