A5047081589- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Genetics and Plant Breeding
- Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Soybean genetics and cultivation
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
- Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
- Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
- Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
- Peanut Plant Research Studies
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Plant tissue culture and regeneration
- Plant and animal studies
- Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
- Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
- Plant responses to water stress
- Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
2021-2024
Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops
2009-2022
Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria
2009-2021
Cereal Research Centre
2019
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
2004
Common bean is an important legume crop having high quality protein, micronutrients, vitamins and antioxidants, which makes it a "grain of hope" for poor communities. Hence, good number breeding activities have been performed on the improvement various key traits years. However, recent advancements in molecular markers, sequencing technologies completion common genome sequence opened numerous opportunities fine mapping gene characterization. The availability these tools together with...
Turkey presents a great diversity of common bean landraces in farmers' fields. We collected 183 accessions from 19 different Turkish geographic regions and 5 scarlet runner to investigate their genetic population structure using phenotypic information (growth habit, seed weight, flower color, bracteole shape size, pod leaf color), provenance 12,557 silicoDArT markers. A total 24.14% markers were found novel. For the entire (188 accessions), expected heterozygosity was 0.078 overall gene...
Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is a multipurpose crop of dry land yielding very high quality edible oil. Present study was aimed to investigate the genetic diversity and population structure 131 safflower accessions originating from 28 different countries using 13 iPBS-retrotransposon markers. A total 295 iPBS bands were observed among which 275 (93.22%) found polymorphic. Mean Polymorphism information content (0.48) parameters including mean effective number alleles (1.33), Shannon’s...
Plant landraces represent a repository of gene pool, local adaptation their domestic species, and thereby are considered great source genetic variations. Such variation can be helpful to mitigate the current future food challenges. A total 183 common bean accessions including three commercial varieties collected from 19 Turkish provinces were grown record morpho-agronomic variations evaluate best performing under multi-environmental conditions. height, days maturity, pods weight, seed...
Common bean is considered a recalcitrant crop for in vitro regeneration and needs repeatable efficient protocol its improvement through biotechnological approaches. In this study, the establishment of reproducible followed by predicting optimizing machine learning (ML) models, such as artificial neural network algorithms, was performed. Mature embryos common were pretreated with 5, 10, 20 mg/L benzylaminopurine (BAP) days isolation plumular apice cultured on post-treatment medium containing...
Abstract Sorghum is a versatile and resilient cereal crop known for its adaptability to wide range of climatic conditions. In recent years, sorghum has gained attention in modern research due potential bioenergy production resilience climate change. However, susceptible several fungal diseases, which pose significant threats productivity profitability. Understanding the genetic control disease resistance essential developing resistant cultivars sustain global food production. Genetic genomic...
Sorghum crop is grown under tropical and temperate latitudes for several purposes including production of health promoting food from the kernel forage biofuels aboveground biomass. One concerns policy-makers sorghum growers to cost-effectively predict biomass yields early during cropping season improve biofuel management. The objective this study was investigate if Sentinel-2 satellite images could be used within-season in Mediterranean region. Thirteen machine learning algorithms were...
Laurel is a medicinally important plant and known to the world for its essential oil. Turkey main market in laurel leaf trade by sharing about 90% of trade. Here we made an effort elucidate genetic diversity population structure 94 Turkish genotypes collected from 26 provinces four geographical regions using inter-primer binding site (iPBS) retrotransposon markers. A total 13 most polymorphic primers were selected which yielded 195 bands, 84.10% found polymorphic. Mean polymorphism...
Antioxidants play an important role in animal and plant life owing to their involvement complex metabolic signaling mechanisms, hence uncovering the genetic basis associated with antioxidant activity is very for development of improved varieties. Here, a total 182 common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) landraces six commercial cultivars collected from 19 provinces Turkey were evaluated seed under four environments two locations. Antioxidant was measured using ABTS radical scavenging capacity mean...
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. (Moench)) is the world's fifth economically most important cereal and a staple particularly in semi-arid tropics of Africa Asia. Genetic gains this crop can benefit from wild relatives such as halepense. Genome sequences including those species boost study genome-wide intraspecific variation for dissecting genetic basis improving traits sorghum. The whole-genome resequencing carried out work on panel 172 populations S. × halepense (SbxSh) advanced lines generated...
Developing high yielding safflower cultivars with good adaptation to diverse environmental conditions can improve production in terms of seed yield and reduce the deficiency edible oil. The genetic variability that exists among within populations for desirable agronomic traits be used develop elite cultivars. A total 94 accessions from 26 different countries were this study evaluate morphoagronomic performance, determine pattern similarity centers, identify best performing by conducting 2...
The efficient use of sorghum as a renewable energy source requires high biomass yields and reduced agricultural inputs. Hybridization Sorghum bicolor with wild halepense can help meet both requirements, generating high-yielding environment friendly perennial cultivars. Selection efficiency, however, needs to be improved exploit the genetic potential derived recombinant lines remove weedy other traits. In this work, we present results from Genome-Wide Association Study conducted on diversity...
Safflower is an important oilseed crop mainly grown in the arid and semi-arid regions of world. The aim this study was to explore phenotypic genetic diversity, population structure, marker-trait association for 100-seed weight 94 safflower accessions originating from 26 countries using silicoDArT markers. Analysis variance revealed statistically significant genotypic effects (p < 0.01), while Turkey samples resulted higher compared Pakistan samples. A Constellation plot divided studied...
Due to evolutionary divergence, sorghum race populations exhibit significant genetic and morphological variation. A k-mer-based sequence comparison identified the conserved k-mers of all 272 accessions from race-specific signatures gene variability in 10,321 genes (PAVs). To understand structure, diversity domestication, a deep learning-based variant calling approach was employed set genotypic data derived diverse panel accessions. The resulted 1.7 million high-quality genome-wide SNPs...
Abstract Sorghum germplasm showed grain Fe and Zn genetic variability, but a few varieties were biofortified with these minerals. This work contributes to narrowing this gap. concentrations along 55,068 high-quality GBS SNP data from 140 sorghum accessions used in study. Both micronutrients exhibited good variability respective ranges of 22.09–52.55 ppm 17.92–43.16 ppm. Significant marker-trait associations identified on chromosomes 1, 3, 5. Two major effect SNPs (S01_72265728 S05_58213541)...
Abstract Current potato breeding approaches are hampered by several factors including costly seed tubers, tetrasomic inheritance and inbreeding depression. Genomic selection (GS) demonstrated interesting results regardless of the ploidy level, can be harnessed to circumvent these problems. In this work, three GS models were evaluated using 50,107 informative SilicoDArT markers 11 traits in two values for cultivation use (VCU) trials. Two key problems modelled included predicting performance...
Sorghum is widely used for producing food, feed, and biofuel, it increasingly grown to produce grains rich in health-promoting antioxidants. The conventional use of grain color as a proxy indirectly select against or antioxidants polyphenols sorghum was hampered by the lack consistency between expected concentration. Marker-assisted selection built upon significant loci identified through linkage disequilibrium studies showed interesting potential several plant breeding animal husbandry...
Sorghum is one of the world’s major crops, expresses traits for resilience to climate change, and can be used several purposes including food clean fuels. Multiple-trait genomic prediction selection models were implemented using genotyping-by-sequencing single nucleotide polymorphism markers phenotypic data information. We demonstrated first time efficiency modelling index biofuel such as aboveground biomass yield, plant height, dry mass fraction fresh material. This work also sheds light,...