Hatice Filiz Boyaci

• Assoc. Prof. Dr.
• Professor (Associate) at Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Agriculture Faculty

This study aimed to uncover salt-tolerant eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) genotypes and accessions. Crop wild relatives (S. macrocarpon L., S. linnaeanum, S. incanum L., S. insanum L., S. sisymbriifolium Lam.), commercial varieties (Topan374, Kemer, Amadeo, Faselis, Bildircin), and local genotypes (TB, BB, MK, AH) were investigated under 150 mM NaC...

Örtüaltı yetiştiriciliği, bitkilerin mevsimleri dışına kaydırılarak ya da mevsimleri dışında yetiştirilmesini mümkün kılarak açık tarla koşullarına göre verim, ürün kalitesi, etkin kaynak kullanımı gibi pekçok avantaj sağlayan entansif bir üretim sistemidir. Ülkemizde toplam örtüaltı alanı 2023 yılı itibarı ile 76420.6 ha’a ulaşmıştır. Bu alanın %1...

Drought is one of the important abiotic stresses that significantly affects plant growth and development process. The use of grafted plants and vermicompost application create significant potential for tolerance to drought stress. The scope of the study; it consists of the evaluation of the effects of grafting and vermicompost applications on the m...

Ornithogalum is an important species used as vegetable, ornamental and medicinal plant. Although several studies have been carried out on Ornithogalum genus, there is still limited information on its genome size and genetic diversity. The objective of the study was to determine genetic similarity of 13 Ornithogalum species (eleven non-endemic, two...

Salinity, which is one of the major abiotic stresses, prevails in mostly arid and semiarid areas that is nearly 20% of the world’s cultivated area. Excessive amounts of salt around the plant root zone are detrimental to vegetative growth and economic yield. Today salinization is still severely expanding and posing a great threat to the development...

This study aimed to determine phenotypic diversity in the germplasm collection of Solanum aethiopicum, also known as scarlet eggplant, under Mediterranean conditions. Two different experiments were established in which morphological and valuable agronomic traits were employed to measure diversity among 57 and 55 accessions, respectively. The experi...

Eggplant is grown in and near the tropic and sub-tropic zones where climate change effects can be seen dramatically in agricultural production. As a vegetable, it is considered has tolerance to some abiotic stresses compared to others. However, significant reductions in yield and marketable fruit quality were observed under stress conditions that e...

Eggplant is grown in and near the tropic and sub-tropic zones where climate change effects can be seen dramatically in agricultural production. As a vegetable, it is considered has tolerance to some abiotic stresses compared to others. However, significant reductions in yield and marketable fruit quality were observed under stress conditions that e...

Salinity, which is one of the major abiotic stresses, prevailing in mostly arid and semiarid areas that is nearly 20 % of the world’s cultivated area. The existence of excessive amount salt around the plant root zone is detrimental for vegetative growth and economic yield. Today salinization is still severely expanding and posing a great threat to...

Climate change often results in extreme weather events as raises in temperatures, scarce and erratic precipitations, expansion of lands that suffer from floods or water deficit. These extreme weather events directly affect plant growth and crop yields. Eggplant, whose popularity raised in recent years, is widely produced and consumed in Asia, Middl...

The scope of the study: it consists of the evaluation of the effects of grafting and vermicompost applications on the morphophysiological properties of eggplant under drought stress by principal component analysis (PCA). In the study carried out under greenhouse conditions, the grafting and non-grafting plants were grown in conditions containing di...

Eggplant (Solanum melongena) is an important Solanaceous crop, widely cultivated and consumed in Asia, the Mediterranean basin, and Southeast Europe. Its domestication centers and migration and diversification routes are still a matter of debate. We report the largest georeferenced and genotyped collection to this date for eggplant and its wild rel...

Eggplant is grown in and near the tropic and sub-tropic zones where climate change effects can be seen dramatically in agricultural production. As a vegetable, it is considered has tolerance to some abiotic stresses compared to others. However, significant reductions in yield and marketable fruit quality were observed under stress conditions that e...

Investigating crop diversity through genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on core collections helps in deciphering the genetic determinants of complex quantitative traits. Using the G2P-SOL project world collection of 10 038 wild and cultivated Capsicum accessions from 10 major genebanks, we assembled a core collection of 423 accessions represent...

Nowadays abiotic stresses originated by climate change is one of the main factors which reducing the agricultural production. Heat and drought are the most prominent abiotic stress factors that threat to eggplant production worldwide and food security. Although eggplant is known as tolerant compared to the other vegetables, its quality and yield su...

Recently, there has been a substantial increase in high‐throughput technologies that generate highly complex large datasets for use in the sciences. Plant breeding and genetics have benefited from this data explosion where many public and private institutions now implement genomic and phenomic data to predict performance thus informing germplasm se...

While the cultivated eggplant genotypes are susceptible to many biotic and abiotic stress factors the wild relatives of eggplant can be resistant to more than one factor. Nevertheless, the success in interspecific cross between cultivated form and wild relatives of eggplant is very limited because of incompatibility. Hence, using biotechnological a...

Eggplant (S. melongena L.) belongs to Solanaceae and is cultivated worldwide. Root-knot nematodes (RKN), Meloidogyne spp., are among the most important pathogens affecting eggplant production both in greenhouse and open field cultivation. Chemical control was carried out for many years, but their excessive usage is harmful for both human and enviro...

Anavatanı Hindistan olan patlıcan, Solanaceae familyasının, Solanum cinsinden olup yenilebilir patlıcan türü botanik olarak Solanum melongena L. olarak isimlendirilmektedir. Sıcağı seven patlıcan bitkisi 15-35℃ arasındaki sıcaklıklarda ticari üretimlerde 6 aylık bir vejetasyon süresinde yetiştirilmektedir. Türk damak zevkinin sevilen bir ürünü olan...

Soil-borne pathogens are the most important factors limiting the cultivation of eggplant, which has a wide cultivation area in the open and under cover all over the world. Especially wilt diseases caused by Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. melongenae and Verticillium dahliae, leads to yield losses. The most environmentally friendly and most permanent metho...

Drought stress causes significant yield and quality losses in eggplant production, as in other plant species, and the development and dissemination of tolerant varieties may be a permanent solution. Wild related species are important genetic resources for the development of drought tolerant varieties. In this study, 256 plants belonging to the F₃ p...

Root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) are a global problem causing yield loss in eggplant cultivation. Cultivated forms of eggplant are susceptible to the pest, but resistance in their wild relatives is also limited. Identification of nematode resistant species is essential for breeding work. In this study, the reactions of some wild culture and w...

Fusarium oxysporum Schlecht. f.sp. melongenae (FOM), Verticillium dahliae (Ve) and Ralstonia solanacearum are major limiting pathogens affecting eggplant cultivation and their yield in the world. Natural resistance genes are the most environmentally friendly method to control the disease. Thus, marker-assisted selection (MAS) is preferred as a tool...

Background Scarlet eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum gr. gilo) is a part of African indigenous vegetables and acknowledged as a source of variations in the breeding of Brinjal. Since its genetic diversity is still largely unexplored, therefore genetic diversity and population structure of this plant were investigated in this study. Methods and results...

Significance This study provides a deep population genomic analysis of 10,000 Capsicum accessions held in genebanks and representing a frame of the global diversity of the genus. By combining single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) based data and passport information, we investigated the genomic diversity and population structure of wild and domesti...

With more than 200 host plant species, the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae), is one of the most common and destructive pests of agricultural crops including vegetables, fruits, field crops and ornamentals in both open-field and greenhouse cultivations in Turkey. Control of this pest generally depends on the u...

Citation: Boyaci H.F., Kabas A., Aysan Y., Prohens J. (2021): Screening of eggplant genotypes for resistance to bacterial wilt disease caused by Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis. Plant Protect. Sci., 57: 112-121. Abstract: Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis (Cmm) is one of the phytopathogenic bacteria causing bacterial wil...

The identification of heterotic groups may provide an important advantage for hybrid eggplant (Solanum melongena) breeding. In this study, we evaluated the combining ability and heterotic patterns of eggplant lines in order to develop improved eggplant cultivars resistant to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melongenae (FOM). A set of 62 inbred lines was e...

Rootstock usage provides many advantages such as resistance or tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress factors, thus, increasing yield. Rootstock usage in eggplants was started in early 1950’s. Currently, it is used worldwide, especially in Asia, Europe, Africa and America. In order to choose the best performing rootstocks in eggplants, many researc...

Rootstock usage provides many advantages such as resistance or tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress factors, thus, increasing yield. Rootstock usage in eggplants was started in early 1950's. Currently, it is used worldwide, especially in Asia, Europe, Africa and America. In order to choose the best performing rootstocks in eggplants, many researc...

Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganen-sis (Smith) Davis et al (Cmm) is an important bacterial agent for tomatoes causing destructive disease. The best way to control of this disease is to use resistant cultivars. Unfortunately there has not been developed a resistant variety against the Cmm because the heritability of resistance is quite comp...

The most important factors those are limiting the production of eggplant in Turkey and the world are soil borne fungal diseases and pests. Fusarium and Verticillium as fungal diseases and nematodes as pests cause significant yield losses. Those pathogens cause significant yield losses both in open field and greenhouse cultivation. The most efficien...

Çalışmada; Batı Akdeniz Tarımsal Araştırma Enstitüsü (BATEM) ve Karadeniz Tarımsal Araştırma Enstitüsüne (KTAE) ait 35 adet kendilenmiş cin mısır hattı moleküler analize tabi tutulmuştur. Moleküler karakterizasyon için 21 adet SSR primeri kullanılmış ve hatlar arasındaki genetik uzaklıklar tespit edilmeye çalışılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda; kümelem...

div> Eggplant is a widely grown species among the Solanaceous crops in both greenhouses and the open field, consumed throughout all the year, it is very popular in Turkey. Eggplant breeding programs were carried out for improving open pollinated varieties launched for the public sector in the earlier 1960’s. Many important open pollinated varieties...

z Cin mısır patlayabilme yeteneği ile diğer mısır tiplerinden farklıdır. Besin içeriği, içerdiği vitamin ve mineraller sayesinde insan beslenmesinde önemlidir. Ayrıca düşük kalorisi ve tam tahıllı mısır enerjisi alımı ile açlık duygusunu azaltması, tok tutucu ve mide asidini emici özelliğiyle de iyi bir diyet ürünüdür. Bu araştırma, 2014 yılında An...

A total of 38 eggplant genotypes, of which 32 were heirloom accessions collected from different regions of Burdur province five were different local genotypes from other provinces, and one was a cultivar, were used as reference in this study. The phylogenetic relationships among these heirlooms were evaluated using 40 morphologic descriptors and fi...

A total of 38 eggplant genotypes, of which 32 were heirloom accessions collected from different regions of Burdur province five were different local genotypes from other provinces, and one was a cultivar, were used as reference in this study. The phylogenetic relationships among these heirlooms were evaluated using 40 morphologic descriptors and fi...

Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) cultivation is an important part of vegetable production in Turkey. It is highly affected by abiotic stress factors such as low temperatures during growth and development. The present study was aimed to improve new hybrid varieties with high quality and fruit setting under undesirable environmental conditions in eggp...

Seventy isolates of Fusarium oxysporum (Schlechtend: Fr.) f. sp. melongenae Matuo and Ishigami (Fomg), the causal agent of eggplant Fusarium wilt, were tested for their interaction with different lines and cultivars to determine whether there was race-specific interaction. Also, a total of 13 cultivars were tested under greenhouse conditions to eva...

Inheritance of the resistance to Fusarium oxysporum melongenae in eggplant was investigated. LS1934 and LS2436, two resistant genotypes from Malaysia, were reciprocally crossed with the susceptible local inbred line NSB99 and seeds of F 1 , F 2 and BC 1 generations were obtained. Resistance tests were carried out by artificial inoculations in segre...

Eggplants are generally grown by winter in Mediterranean areas. Therefore, growers prefer to use parthenocarpic fruit and plant growth regulators. This study determined the relationship between flower development and gibberellic acid (GA 3) levels in parthenocarpic and non-parthenocarpic eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) genotypes. A single crop was...

The effects of low temperature on plant growth, pollen viability, pollen quantity and fertility, fruitting of parthenocarpic and non-parthenocarpic eggplant have been studied. A total of 16 genotypes were used. Whether the differences of vegetative and generative developments of parthenocarpic and non-parthenocarpic eggplants will be used or not as...

Fusarium wilt (Fusarium oxysporum Schlecht. f. sp. melongenae) is a vascular disease of eggplant (Solanum melongena L.). The objectives of this work were (1) to confirm the monogenic inheritance of fusarium wilt resistance in eggplant, (2) to identify molecular markers linked to this resistance, and (3) to develop SCAR markers from most informative...