Ekrem Bolukbasi

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Lichens adapted to extreme conditions through gene expression changes, help monitor environmental and climate change impacts. In this study, Umbilicaria decussata (Vill.) Zahlbr. lichen samples were collected with from two different regions: from the Horseshoe Island, located to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula and from the south coast of Türkiy...

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Lichens are among the living organisms used for the biological synthesis of nanoparticles. Lichens are typically organisms where algae and fungi exist symbiotically. These organisms possess a wide array of biological components and are particularly rich in secondary metabolites. These characteristics give them an advantage in NPs synthesis. The use...

Food additives change the appearance and taste of foods, prevent their deterioration and keep them longer; are very important chemical compounds in terms of food technology. In this study, the cytotoxicity of the monosodium glutamate, monopotassium glutamate and magnesium di-glutamate salts of L-Glutamic acid are frequently used in foods as food ad...

Heavy metals are chemical elements with high density that can be toxic or poisonous even at low concentrations. They are widely distributed in the environment due to industrial activities, mining, pesticide use, automotive emissions and domestic wastes. This study aimed to investigate the toxic effects of copper (Cu) heavy metal on safflower plants...

The new terricolous lichen species Thamnolecania yunusii Halıcı, Güllü, Bölükbaşı & Kahraman, which is characterised by its cream to greyish brown granulose-crustose thallus without vegetative propagules, is described from Horseshoe Island in the South-West Antarctic Peninsula region. All Thamnolecania species are known only from the Antarctic. The...

Lichens are most dominant elements of Antarctic terrestrial vegetation, however, they are still not well known. In this paper, Lendemerialla vaczii is described as a new lichen species to science from the James Ross Island and Horseshoe Island, Antarctic Peninsula, based on morphology and phylogenetic analysis. The new species is characterized by b...

Previously, only three Candelariella species were known from Antarctica: C. aurella, C. flava and C. vitellina. After morphologically and phylogenetically examining our collections on soil from James Ross Island, located in the northeast Antarctic Peninsula region, and Horseshoe Island, a small rocky island in Bourgeois Fjord, Marguerite Bay in the...

Environmental pollution negatively affects the life activities of the living things of the environment and causes structural damages on the all living and inanimate things. The extent of the damage caused by human-made pollution to nature and the environment is increasing day by day. Heavy metal pollution is one of the most important causes of envi...

This study investigated the expression levels of FAD2 genes important for the conversion of oleic acid to linoleic acid at cotyledon, root and leaf tissues of four different safflower cultivars (Olas, Remzibey, Dincer and Gokturk) subjected to B by qRT-PCR. Safflower species were grown in a controlled environmental growth chamber for 21 days and th...

The new lichen species Shackletonia backorii Halıcı, Güllü & Kahraman is described from James Ross Island, which is located in the North-East Antarctic Peninsula region. The new species is morphologically most similar to S. insignis (Søchting & Øvstedal) Søchting, Frödén & Arup, which was described from Livingstone Island (North-West Antarctic Peni...

Heavy metal pollution is an important environmental problem all over the world. It is known that high concentrations of heavy metals in soils and waters cause genotoxicity in living things and damage most of the functional biomolecules. For instance, while low concentration of copper, is essential for all organisms, high concentration of copper is...

Environmental pollution, especially heavy metal pollution, is an important environmental problem all over the world. Heavy metals that accumulate in high concentrations in soil and water ecosystems are known to damage most functional biomolecules such as DNA, RNA and protein in living organisms and cause genotoxicity. For example, cadmium heavy met...

The new lichen species Rhizocarpon ozsoyae is described from James Ross Island, located in the north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula region. The nrITS and mtSSU gene regions of the new species are studied and the phylogenetic position of the species is in the Rhizocarpon geographicum group. It differs from the other species of the group by having mostl...

Environmental pollution occurs in nature as air, soil and water pollution and as a result it affects whole ecosystem including human beings. Although industrialization and technological developments have made life easier than before, in recent years, they have triggered environmental pollution. Cadmium, which is a toxic pollutant for all living thi...

Heavy metals, which are natural components of the Earth's crust, are naturally occurring chemi-cal elements that have a relatively high density. These metals are toxic or poisonous at low concen-trations. Many industrial activities, fossil fuels, mining, using pesticide, metal-enriched some mate-rials, automotive emissions and domestic wastes and m...

Heavy metals are chemical elements with high density that can be toxic or poisonous even at low concentrations. They are widely distributed in the environment due to industrial activities, mining, pesticide use, automotive emissions and domestic wastes. This study aimed to investigate the toxic effects of copper (Cu) heavy metal on safflower plants...

Kömür, petrol, doğal gaz gibi fosil yakıtların yakılması, tropik ormanların yok edilmesi vb. faktörler ile gelişen sera etkisi, küresel ısınma ve iklim değişikliği; kontrolsüz kentleşme ve sanayileşmenin meydana getirdiği hava, toprak ve su kirlilikleri; ozon tabakasının incelmesine, asit yağmurlarına ve sıcaklık terselmesi olaylarına sebep olan in...

Plant nematode

Most plant parasitic nematode management methods are pre-plant treatments. One such treatment is the planting of cover crops that can reduce nematode populations. A cover crop is a crop that is grown before the main cash crop is planted. This method is used to either avoid soil erosion caused by fallowing land, or to reduce a pest that cannot repro...

Plants can easily be exposed to abiotic and biotic stresses because of their sessile nature. Consequently, they have to cope with stress factors at genetic level. In this study we aimed to investigate the changes in TCP gene expressions in Phaseolus vulgaris under chromium (VI) stress at mRNA level.

Heavy metal contamination is an important environmental problem all over the world. High concentrations of heavy metals cause permanent damages to cells and tissues. In this study, the toxic effects of zinc heavy metal in sunflower plant in population and molecular parameters were investigated. The effects of zincheavymetalon sunflower seedlings we...

These investigations aimed to determine bio-insecticide effect of black cumin essential oil against granary weevil, Sitophilus granarius L. on stored wheat. Therefore three different experiments with black cumin were carried out: I. To test efficacy of black cumin against different developmental stages of granary weevil in soft wheat grain; II. To...

These investigations aimed to determine bio-insecticide effect of black cumin essential oil against granary weevil, Sitophilus granarius L. on stored wheat. Therefore three different experiments with black cumin were carried out: I. To test efficacy of black cumin against different developmental stages of granary weevil in soft wheat grain; II. To...

Model organism or model live which are also used for the investigation of certain biological processes. Some basic researches using model organisms has taught us much of what we know about biology. This research has identified the fundamental properties of how cells grow and divide, how inheritance works, and how organisms store and use energy. Mod...

Safflower oil constitutes an important source of oleic acid and linoleic acid which can be used for food and industrial applications. Because of their importance, nowadays, breeders are focused on selection of high-oleic or linoleic safflower breeding lines for particular end use purposes. For this aim, we investigated the expression levels of six...

Heavy metal contamination is an important environmental problem in the world. It is known that high concentration of heavy metals in soils and waters cause damage to most of the functional biomolecules and genotoxicity in living things. For instance, cadmium is non-essential element that negatively affects plant growth and development. The aim of s...

The gene transfer technique, shortly, has permitted the transfer of genes from one organism to another. The incredibly rapid development of gene technology, nowadays, is not only a research field but extends various areas from health to food and from animals to plants. The improvement in plant molecular biology and plant biotechnology have provided...

Heavy metal pollution is a major environmental problem all over the world. It is known that high concentration of heavy metals in soils and waters cause genotoxicity and damage to most of the functional biomolecules. This event is a potentially dangerous for every living organism from plants to humans. The aim of this study was to determine the met...

Heavy-metal contamination is an important environmental problem in the world. High concentrations of heavy metals cause permanent damages to cells and tissues. In this study, the toxic effects of heavy metal of Zinc in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) plant, in population and in molecular parameters were investigated. The effects of Zinc metal on s...

The first and second generation DNA sequencing (SGS) technologies revolutionized the field of genomics has led to developments beyond surprisingly large number of scientific studies. It has been effective on the understanding of whole living genome sequence, characterization of genomic DNA and DNA sequence variation and live genom sequence encodes...