Horticulture

Academic Staff

May 31, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
Yousif Ali Abdulrahman
Yousif Ali Abdulrahman (PhD) Head of the Department
Professor
Professor in Ornamental Plant

Horticulture
College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences
University of Duhok
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  • Phd. in Ornamental plants- turf grass (2008), UoD, Kurdistan Region - Iraq.
  • MSc. in Ornamental plants (2001), UoD, Kurdistan Region - Iraq.
  • BSc. in Plant Production (1997), UoD, Kurdistan Region - Iraq.

Ornamental plants, flowering bulbs, turf grasses, landscape design, medicinal plants.

  • Teaching undergraduate courses of weeds, field crops, manufacture crops and forage and grazing, as demonstrator, 1998-1997.
  • Teaching undergraduate courses Ornamental plant 1 and 2, landscape design. Since, 2001-2006 as assist lecturer continue to now as Assistant professor.
  • Teaching undergraduate courses in principle of horticulture in horticulture Dep. Since, 2002 - 2003 as assistant lecturer and soil and water Dep. Science 2015- 2016 as assistant professor.
  • Teaching undergraduate courses in general botany, since 2010 - 2013 as lecturer.
  • Teaching undergraduate courses in medicinal and aromatic plant, since 2010 - 2013 in technical institute of duhok as lecturer.
  • Teaching undergraduate courses in Turf grasses. 2005- 2016 until now as assistant professor.
  • Teaching advanced courses for M.Sc. students in ornamental plants, landscape design, flowering bulbs and turf grass 2010- 2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015 and 2015-2016.
  • Teaching advanced courses for Ph. D. and master student's in Advance ornamental plants 2015-2016.
  • Teaching advanced courses for Ph. D. student's in Advance ornamental bulbs 2019-2020
  • Teaching advanced courses for Ph. D. student's in Advance turf grasses plants 2019-2020.

  • Head of the department
  • Scientific Research Committee at the College
  • Member of the department council
  • Member of the college council
  • Scientific Committee Section
  • The social committee in the department
  • Evaluation Committee of 4th stage student Seminars
  • Permanent Committee for Supervision on official and national events
  • Committee for supervising third stage student projects
  • Head of Scientific research center
  • Evaluation of two scientific research for the purpose of scientific promotion from assistant lecturer to lecturer
  • Discussion committee of the Ph.D. proposal for student Layla Shabban Mohamed
  • Discussion committee of the Ph.D. proposal for student Bayan Zaki Abdulkareem
  • Evaluation of more than 20 scientific research
  • Committee for the summer training for third stage 2012 - 2013, 2016-2017, 2019 -2020, 2020-2021
  • Participate in discussion committee of 2 Ph.D. student degrees.
  • Participate in a discussion committee of more than 25 student degrees.

Research

  • Sc. Thesis title "Effect of propagation media and different concentrations of IBA and IAA on rooting of Bougainvillea glabra hard wood cuttings". M. Sc. Thesis, College of Agriculture. University of Duhok/ Duhok/ Kurdistan region/ Iraq.2001.
  • D. thesis title "Effect of shading and chemical fertilizer on growth of different seed mixture for turf grass in Dohuk governorate". Ph. D. thesis, College of Agriculture and forestry. University of Mosul. Iraq.
  • Effect of planting media and different concentrations of IBA on rooting of Cotoeaster racemiflorous hard wood cutting. of Dohuk University, Vol. 4, No.2. (2005). Moslih M. Saeed, and Yousif A. Abdulrahman,
  • Effect of planting date and media on germination and growth of Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) seeds. J. of Dohuk University, Vol. 9, No.1. (2006). Yousif A .Abdulrahman
  • Effect of density plants and culture media on some growth characteristics of stock plant (Mathiola incana Br.). J. of Duhok University. Vol.14 (1)- (2011). Yousif A. Abdulrahman
  • Effect of wounding and different concentrations of IBA on rooting of hard wood cuttings of Plumbago capensis plant. Journal Tikrit Univ. For Agri. Sci. Vol. (13) No. (1) ,(2013) ISSN-1813-1646 Yousif A. Abdulrahman Hadar S. Faizy
  • Effect of shading on growth of different mixture for turf grass in Dohuk governorate. Journal of University of Duhok, Vol.15, No.1, Pp43-48, 2012 (Special Issue) The 1st Scientific Agricultural Conference, 10-12th April, 2012 Yousif A. Abdulrahman, and Mohamad. D. Al-Sawaf
  • Effect of planting media and different concentrations of IBA on rooting of Bougainvillea glabra hard wood cuttings. Mesopotamia J. of Agriculture. Vol. 40 (1) - 2012 Yousif A. Abdulrahman, and Tahsin. J. Salih
  • Effect of different amended organic media and C-Force extract concentrations on growth and flowering of Vinca rosea Journal of Life Sciences, ISSN -1934, March 2014, Vol. 8, No. 3 , pp. 238-245, USA.Yousif Ali Abdulrahman and Janan Abdul-Khaliq Sadeeq
  • Effect of growing media on growth and flowering of different Hyacinth cultivars (Hyacinthus orientalis ). Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology B2. Volume 2 No. 10, (2012) 1100-1108. USA.Yousif Ali Abdulrahman and Sulaiman Mohammed Kako
  • Effect of Ascorbic acid and Sucrose concentration on vase life of Snapdragon (Antirrhinum Majus ) Cut Flowers. International Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences and Technology 13(2) (2012), pp. 32-41, Indian.Yousif A. Abdulrahman1, *, Sarfaraz F. Ali1 and Hadar S. Faizi1
  • Non-destructive method for prediction leaf area and chlorophyll content for some horticultural plants cultivated in Erbil city. Journal of University of Duhok., Vol 19, No.1 (Agri. and Vet. Sciences),Pp. 339-347, 2016 (Special Issue). The 2nd Scientific Agricultural Conference (April 26 and 27th 2016)Ikbal. Al-Barzinj; Sargul A.Khudhur and Yousif A. Abdulrahman
  • Effect of different concentrations of gibberilic acid on seeds germination in different turf grass genera. Kufa Journal for agriculture science, 9(2):226-247. 2017Berivan Sadiq Abdullah and Yousif Ali Abdulrahman
  • Effect of organic media and seaweed extracts (seaweed - Fe) on the vegetative growth and flowering of Narcissus tazetta plant Khatini. Journal of zankoy sulaimani – part A. (JZS special issue, 2nd int. conference of agriculture science. P: 189 – 197. 2018.Yousif Ali Abdulrahman and Ban J. Khoshaba
  • PLANNING STUDY FOR THE REALITY OF SCHOOL GARDENS DESIGN IN DUHOK CITY (HIGH SCHOOLS AS A CASE STUDY). Journal of University of Duhok., Vol. 22, No.1 (Agri. and Vet. Sciences), Pp. 158-165, 2019.Yousif Ali Abdulrahman and Prween Mohamed Shareef
  • Effect of wounding and growth media on rooting of Barberry shrub (Berberis vulgaris) hard wood cuttings. Journal of University of Kirkuk for Agriculture Sciences. Vol. 10, No.4, 2019.Yousif Ali Abdulrahman
  • Effect of wounding and IBA concentrations on the rooting of two photinia plant species photinia glabra and photinia serrulata hard wood cuttings. Acceptance of paper for publication in International Journal of Agricultural and Statistical Sciences -Indexed Scopus (Q3). 15 (1) 2019  in June.Yousif Ali Abdulrahman and Jihad Yousif Hassan 
  • Effect of different concentrations of gebberellic acid (GA3) and benzyl adenine (BA) on the vase life of two narcissuses cut flowers cultivars. Mesopotamia Journal of Agriculture Vol. (47), Supplement I, 2019. Proceedings of the 3rd International Agri. Conference, College of Agri. and Forestry, Univ. of Mosul and College of Agri. Engineering Sciences, Univ. of Duhok 2-3 October 2019.Yousif Ali Abdulrahman and Ban Gbraeel Khushaba
  • Effect of electric current severity and shock timing of corms on vegetative growth, flowering and corm yield characteristics of two cultivars of gladiolus (Gladiolus grandiflorus) plant. on Crops 20 (4): 774-781 (2019). DOI: 10.31830/2348-7542.2019.114. (Impact factor: 0.17).Yousif Ali Abdulrahman
  • Influence of Different Treatments on Rooting of Wooden Cuttings for Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis). Indian Journal of Ecology (2020) 47 Special Issue (12): 275-280. Indexed Scopus (Q4).
  • Response of two turf grasses seeds mixture growth to different concentrations of paclobutrazol in spring and autumn seasons. Journal of Agricultural and Statistical Sciences -Indexed Scopus (Q3). Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 237-244, 2022. ISSN: 0973-1903, e-ISSN: 0976-3392.
  • Effect of Current Intensity and Shock Timing of Cuttings on Rooting of Hard Wood Cuttings for Two Olive Tree (Olea europea L.) Cultivars. ProEnvironment 15(50) (2022) 318 – 325.
    Yousif Ali Abdulrahman and Shaymaa Mahfoth Abdulqader
  • Influence of Shading and Paclobutrazol Concentrations on Growth and Quality Characters of Three Different Turf Grasses Genera. Kufa Journal for Agricultural Sciences – 2023:15(1):61-72.
  • RESPONSE OF FREESIA (FREESIA REFRECTA L.) PLANT TO DIFFERENT GROWTH MEDIA, CALCIUM CHLORIDE AND GIBBERELLIC ACID. Journal of University of Duhok., Vol. 25, No.2 (Agri. and Vet. Sciences), Pp 144-154, 2022.
  • RESPONSE OF FREESIA (FREESIA REFRECTA L.) PLANT TO DIFFERENT GROWTH MEDIA, CALCIUM CHLORIDE AND GIBBERELLIC ACID | Journal of Duhok University (uod.ac)
    EFFECT OF THE IRRIGATION AND FERTILIZATION IN THE GROWTH PERFORMANCE OF TURF GRASS SEEDS MIXTURE IN SPRING SEASON. Journal of University of Duhok., Vol. 62, No.1 (Agri. and Vet. Sciences), Pp 216-223, 2023.
  • Effect of Electric Current Severity, Shock Timing for Seedling and Spray of Nano-Fertilizer on Vegetative Growth, Flowering and Induced Genetic Variation (DNA) of Statice Plant (Limonium sinuatum L.). Pak. j. life soc. Sci. (2024), 22(2):100138-100148.
  • Investigation of the Effects of Rooting Medium and IBA Concentration on Rooting and Shoot Development of Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea spp.) Cuttings. Jotaf Journal of Tekirdag Agricultural Faculty (2025), 22(1): 18-34. DOI: 10.33462/jotaf.1341534

  • Ornamental plants
  • landscape design
  • turfgrass
  • physiology of ornamental plants
  • propagation

  • I supervised 9 master’s students and 3 doctoral students.
  • I continue my work as a teaching staff in the Horticulture Department at the Faculty of Agricultural.