DEVELOPMENT OF BIO-FORTIFIED FUNCTIONAL FOODS 

Do not underestimate a seed because it can feed you!

Overview

Being sessile, plants are exposed to various environmental stresses in their life cycles. In order to survive under these environmental restraints plants have developed various ways to respond, tolerate and adapt to unfamiliar changes around them. Following the perception of stress, one of the earliest plant responses is the regulation of gene expression, which may include production or degradation of several transcripts function in perception, signaling and tolerance of stresses.

The main focus of our lab is to characterize the molecular mechanisms of stress signaling in plants in connection with plant nutrition, heavy metals, abiotic stresses, as well as their transcriptomic and post-transcriptomic regulations under these conditions.

Our research topics include:   
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1. Plant nutrition and heavy metals
2. Metal uptake and distribution in plants
3. Stress physiology in plants
4. Molecular mechanisms of stress signaling in plants
5. Genetic improvement of plants 
6. Regulation of RNA polymerase II and transcription (under abiotic stresses)
7. Regulation of miRNA production/processing in environmental stresses
8. Molecular ecophysiology of environmental stresses
9. Bio-fortification of plants and functional foods
10. Plant factories

NEWS HEADLINES

Submission to the Special Issue of the Turkish Journal of Botany is open! journals.tubitak.gov.tr/botany/news.html
Two members of our lab team graduated successfully:

  • Our master's student Selime Celik presented her thesis study titled "Genome Wide Association Study in Common Bean Under Iron Deficiency".
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  • MSc Utku Deniz defended his thesis titled "Genome Wide Association Study in Durum Wheat Under Iron Deficiency".


We're thankful for both as their contributions to our lab team.

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