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Introduction
Hilal Ozkilinc currently works at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi. Hilal does research in Molecular Biology, Evolutionary Biology and Phylogenetics. Hilal asks her research questions on fungal plant pathogens. Their most recent publication is 'Molecular phylogenetic species in Alternaria pathogens infecting pistachio and wild relatives'.
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June 2019 - present
February 2014 - June 2019
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- Professor (Assistant)
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- Population and Evolutionary Genetics (Postgraduate Course)
August 2010 - April 2012
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Publications (33)
Background
Fungicide resistance poses a significant challenge to plant disease management and influences the evolutionary dynamics of fungal pathogens. Besides being important phytopathogens, Monilinia species have become a model for discovering many fundamental questions related to fungal pathosystems. In this study, DMI-propiconazole sensitivity...
The reciprocal targeting of microRNAs (miRNA) and micro-like-RNAs (milRNA) between hosts and pathogens is critical for understanding their interactions. In this study, reciprocal miRNA targets were explored in two Monilinia fungal pathogens, M. fructicola & M. laxa, and their peach host (Prunus presica). Using in silico analysis, 355 and 266 putati...
Structural variants (SVs) are variants with sizes bigger than 50 base pairs and capable of changing the size, copy number, location, orientation, and sequence content of genomic DNA. Although these variants have been proven to be extensive and involved in many evolutionary processes along the tree of life, there is still insufficient information on...
Monilinia fructicola and Monilinia laxa species are the most destructive and economically devastating fungal plant pathogens causing brown rot disease on stone and pome fruits worldwide. Mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) play critical roles influencing the mechanisms and directions of the evolution of fungal pathogens. The pan-mitogenomics approa...
In vitro host mimicry provides a method to study host–pathogen interactions without constraints of time, space, or host presence. Monilinia fructicola and M. laxa , pathogens causing brown rot disease, have a narrow host range including some pome and stone fruits. Building on previous in vitro mimicry of the peach host and M. fructicola , this pape...
The mycobiome is comprised of a rich array of fungal species that compete for resources, and species diversity and prevalence exhibit a dynamic structure under the influence of many factors. While the host fruit develops, the prevalence and the arrangement of fungal species in this mycobiome also change, forming a dynamic microenvironment. In this...
Temperature is one of the key factors affecting the infection and development of fungal plant pathogens. Monilinia fructicola and M. laxa are the most important species causing brown rot of peach fruits worldwide. Considering that symptoms of M. laxa and M. fructicola appear in spring and summer, respectively, the virulence of these two species is...
Background
Phylogenetic analyses for plant pathogenic fungi explore many questions on diversities, relationships, origins, and divergences of populations from different sources such as species, host, and geography. This information is highly valuable, especially from a large global sampling, to understand the evolutionary paths of the pathogens wor...
Investigating the role of temperature on the disease progression of Monilinia spp. and using PWR model to understand the progression of disease throughout rising temperatures.
Monilinia fructicola, causal agent of brown rot of stone fruits, is an economically important problem worldwide. Six of the sequence tagged microsatellite sites developed for M. fructicola were used to genotype 68 M. fructicola isolates, which included isolates from three cities in Turkey (n = 42) that were compared to isolates from the USA (n = 15...
Brown rot caused by Monilinia fructicola and M. laxa can result in considerable losses in peach production worldwide. Respiratory Inhibitors (RIs) have been used to control the disease in Turkey and worldwide. However, resistance against RIs may have been developing in Monilinia populations in Turkey. The sensitivity level of the total of 128 isola...
Monilinia laxa is an important fungal plant pathogen causing brown rot on many stone and pome fruits worldwide. Mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) plays a critical role in evolutionary biology of the organisms. This study aimed to characterize the complete mitogenome of M. laxa by using next-generation sequencing and approaches of de novo assembly a...
Brown rot disease caused by fungal species from the Monilinia genus has recently been observed as one of the most important limiting factors for yield and quality of peach fruits in Turkey. During June and July of 2018, field trips to different peach orchards were performed in six provinces located in four different geographical regions of Turkey....
Chickpea is an important legume crop cultivated in many locations of Turkey and wild relatives of chickpea naturally grow in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. Ascochyta blight caused by Didymella rabiei is one of the most important limiting factors for chickpea production. In this study, we aimed to investigate the genetic structures of D...
Many important pathogens of crops worldwide are members of section Alternaria within the genus Alternaria. Representative species in this section such as Alternaria alternata, Alternaria tenuissima, and Alternaria arborescens show high variability, intermediate characters and plasticity in morphological features, which makes species identification...
Alternaria blight is one of the important diseases of pistachio and wild relatives, and its management in pistachio orchards mainly relies on fungicide applications. But, it is observed the disease cannot be declined or controlled by fungicide treatment that might be due to development of fungicide resistance in Alternaria pathogens. On the other h...
Alternaria genus includes many plant pathogens on numerous hosts, causing leaf spots, rots and blights. Alternaria blight has been observed as one of the important fungal diseases of pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) as well as its wild relatives (P. terebinthus, P. lentiscus, P. khinjuk, P. atlantica, P. mutica) in Turkey. Alternaria species were sampl...
In this study, molecular markers were used to determine fungal flora in black olive fruits from field surveys to the table, following the fermentation process. Field samples were collected from different locations of Canakkale province, including Gokceada (Imbros), where organic farming is employed. Some of the fruits from field samples were used f...
The fungal genus Alternaria comprises a large number of asexual taxa with diverse ecological, morphological and biological modes ranging from saprophytes to plant pathogens. Understanding the speciation processes affecting asexual fungi is important for estimating biological diversity which in turn affects plant disease management and quarantine en...
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is an important food legume crop and Fusarium wilt caused by
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris is one of the most important diseases of chickpea in Turkey.
Fusarium redolens is known to cause wilt-like disease of chickpea in other countries, but has
not been reported from Turkey. Accurate identification of pathogen spe...
Ascochyta lentis var. lathyri is described for the first time infecting grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) in
Italy. This fungus causes necrotic lesions on leaves and stems of grasspea plants. Fungal isolates
obtained from these lesions were able to infect grasspea under controlled environmental conditions
and induced symptoms similar to those observed...
Didymella fabae is a highly destructive fungal pathogen of faba bean (Vicia faba) that represents a significant yield-limiting biotic constraint in all locations where the crop is grown. However, nothing is known about the population structure of this pathogen anywhere in the world. Population genetic analyses employing eighteen sequence-tagged mic...
Pistacia vera L. is an important crop species in the Southeastern region of Turkey. Alternaria blight disease caused by Alternaria spp. has become epidemic for the last couple of years. Disease symptoms mainly develop on young fruits and infections continue until harvest. Repeated infections decrease fruit quantity and quality that in turn reduce t...
Ascochyta blight, caused by Didymella rabiei, affects both domesticated chickpea and its congeneric wild relatives. The aim of this study was to compare the aggressiveness
of D. rabiei isolates from wild and domesticated Cicer spp. in Turkey and Israel on wild and domesticated hosts from both countries. A total of eight isolates of D. rabiei sample...
Eighteen microsatellite markers were developed for Didymella fabae, seventeen of which were highly polymorphic among a sample of D. fabae isolates from Syria. Genetic linkage analysis assigned the markers to eight linkage groups. These markers will facilitate population and evolutionary studies of D. fabae and related species.
The Fertile Crescent is the centre of domestication of chickpea (Cicer arietinum) and also the place of origin of its pathogens. Agrosystems provide different environments to natural eco-systems, thus imposing different types of selection on pathogens. Here, the genetic structure and in vitro temperature growth response of the chickpea pathogen Did...
For millennia, chickpea (Cicer arietinum) has been grown in the Levant sympatrically with wild Cicer species. Chickpea is traditionally spring-sown, while its wild relatives germinate in the autumn and develop in the winter.
It has been hypothesized that the human-directed shift of domesticated chickpea to summer production was an attempt to escape...
In July 2005, small (2 to 5 mm), elongated, dark brown spots on the stems of Cicer pinnatifidum Jaub. & Spach. were observed on plants grown in the rocky hills of the Kahramanmaras Province. To understand this phenomenon, field trips to Kahramanmaras, Adiyaman, and Sanliurfa provinces were conducted in the summer of 2006. C. pinnatifidum plants exh...
Questions
Questions (3)
Hello, has anyone experienced to extract pure mitochondrial DNA (not contaminated with genomic DNA) from filamentous fungi? There are some protocols about it, but, mostly yielding very low concentration of DNA, and sometimes contaminated with g-DNA. Recently, we obtained pure DNA expecting mt-DNA, and confirmed that g-DNA contamination is not present, however, PCR targeting mt-DNA regions did not work by using mt-DNA template, as well. I have been working and optimizing some approaches to get high quality and pure mt-DNA. I would appreciate any of your suggestions for it.
Hi, what would be the best appropriate calibration point when working with only one fungal species but incluging phylogentically distinct lineages? Thanks.
Hi, I try to use BEAST software for estimating divergence times for some of fungal species/populations. I use sequence data of five coding regions and do not use any fossil calibaration. One of the biggest trouble for me, I can not put or see or interpret time scale when I illustrate output of BEAST on Figtree. Does anybody have any idea or suggestion? Or any other user friendly software suggestion for that? Thanks....
