
Musa SeymenSelçuk University · Department of Horticulture
Musa Seymen
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September 2006 - December 2020
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Seed priming and plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) may alleviate salt stress effects. We exposed a salt-sensitive variety of melon to salinity following seed priming with NaCl and inoculation with Bacillus. Given the sensitivity of photosystem II (PSII) to salt stress, we utilized dark- and light-adapted chlorophyll fluorescence alongside anal...
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In this study, we investigated the activities of ACC (1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid) deaminase-secreting plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPRs) in watermelon grafted onto different rootstocks exposed to water stress.
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The effects of two PGPR species (P. aurescens-B1 and P. polychromogenes-B2) on yield, actual evapotranspi...
Flooding is such a stress factor leading to reduction in both the yield and quality of crops. One practical solution lowering yield and quality performances of crops in areas with flooding risks is to practice of tolerant plant cultivars. The major purpose of the present work was to identify the most suitable cultivars within 11 different Kırkağaç...
Drought has emerged as a significant abiotic stress in vegetable production. Sweet watermelon (Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus) is susceptible to drought stress (DS) and requires adequate irrigation for optimal yield and quality. The current study sought to shed light on the potential of citron watermelon as a rootstock for watermelon by studying ch...
Currently, many techniques to alleviate the negative effects of water stress, specifically drought, on plants are frequently the subject of research. In this study, the effects of two different plant growth-promoting rhizobacterial (PGPR) species isolated from arid and semiarid areas whose activities under water stress were determined in a prelimin...
Melatonin, an important phytochemical, encourages plants to redirect growth in response to environmental stresses. The study aims to investigate the changes in the morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular properties of spinach subjected to the exogenous application of melatonin (MEL) at different doses under different water stress....
Global climate change enhances the effect of abiotic stress factors, which cause limited plant growth, yield losses, and reduced quality. Today, flooding has become an important stress factor restricting plant growth. Recently, researchers have worked out strategies that increase tolerance to flooding stress (Flo). This study aimed to examine the e...
Pumpkin is usually cultivated in arid and semiarid regions, and the lack of water stress-tolerant cultivars is a major limiting factor. Therefore, this study was carried out to identify superior water stress-tolerant genotypes. For this purpose, 44 inbred lines with superior agronomic traits were selected from the gene pool. In addition, two hybrid...
Owing to the increased global warming, drought severity has increased in many regions, threatening food security, especially in arid and semi-arid areas. Therefore, it is imperative to mitigate the impact of drought on plants in water-stressed areas. The utilization of plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPRs) serves as an environmentally friend...
It is difficult to reach the water needed in agriculture. For this reason, insufficient irrigation causes yield and quality losses in plants. The aim of this study was to determine some quality parameters of both flesh of melon and melon seed irrigated with different irrigation regimes. Melon cultivar (Cucumis melo L.) was irrigated by the drip met...
Drought adversely affects crop production in areas with water shortages. In such areas, various methods need to be implemented to alleviate the effect of water stress on plants. Nitric oxide (NO) is an important plant growth regulator that affects various physiological processes. In this study, we determined ways to increase water-stress tolerance...
Global climate change is increasing its negative impact on agricultural production day by day. Abiotic stress factors brought about by climate change cause significant losses in yield, quality, and plant growth. In addition to increasing the effects of drought and salinity with global warming, changes in precipitation regimes and flooding stresses...
The scarcity of clean water resources is increasing the use of salty water with high EC (electrical conductivity) for irrigation, particularly in water-stressed areas. In this study, the responses of lettuce plants grown under water stress to the increased sodium chloride (NaCl) stress were determined. Therefore, an experimental trial with 15 treat...
The scarcity of clean water resources is increasing the use of salty water with high EC (electrical conductivity) for irrigation, particularly in water-stressed areas. In this study, the responses of lettuce plants grown under water stress to the increased sodium chloride (NaCl) stress were determined. Therefore, an experimental trial with 15 treat...
Salinity and drought are the major abiotic stress factors that threaten the sustainability of agricultural production, particularly in semi-arid regions. Therefore, in such regions, it becomes imperative to determine the effects of salinity under deficit irrigation conditions. In this context, the present study evaluated the effects of five differe...
Flooding stress is an important abiotic stress factor, restricting agricultural production and causing yield and quality losses. This study was carried out to measure the effects of melatonin (MEL) applications on plant growth and the physiological and biochemical changes associated with flooding stress in seedling cauliflower plants. Approximately...
This study aimed to investigate the effects of grafting on the fatty acid profile and some physicochemical properties of watermelon seed and seed oil. The ‘Crimson Tide’ cultivar was used as the scion while two wild watermelon (Citrullus lanatus var. citroides (A1 and A2)), one Lagenaria siceraria (A3) and one Cucurbita maxima Duchesne x Cucurbita...
Amaç: Çalışmada, ülkemizin en çok Altınbaş kavun yetiştirme bölgelerinden biri olan Konya'da 85 adet melez kavun çeşidi adayının bazı verim ve kalite özelliklerinin belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Yöntem ve Sonuçlar: Bu çalışma 2021 yılı Mayıs-Ağustos ayları arasında Selçuk Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi araştırma ve uygulama arazisinde gerçekleştirilmi...
Bu çalışmada, biber çeşit ıslahı programı kapsamında geliştirilen 5 hibrit dolmalık biber çeşit adayının Konya’da tarla koşulunda yaz dönemi yetiştiriciliğinde meyve kalite ve verim özellikleri yönünden performanslarının karşılaştırılması amaçlanmıştır. İlk hasatlar, fide dikiminden itibaren 68 gün sonra yapılmıştır. Meyve uzunluğu, 54.28-80.49 mm...
The quality and quantity of the water used in agriculture are important factors to ensure sustainable agricultural
production. It is crucial to determine the responses of plants under deficit irrigation conditions in the arid and
semi-arid areas to varying salinity of irrigation water. The responses of spinach were investigated in terms of
agron...
Abiotic stress factors are increasing their negative effects on agricultural production day by day. With the effect of global warming, the floods that have increased recently not only affect human life negatively, but also cause great losses in plant development. For this reason, the development of tolerant plants against flooding stress is the mos...
Drought, especially in arid and semi-arid area, has become a major issue for world food security in recent years. Hence, intensive efforts are being made to refrain the negative effects of drought in agricultural cultivation. The application of proline (Pro) and glycine betaine (GB) helps to conserve water and proteins in plant cells and to protect...
Despite the advanced technology in agriculture, the majority of yield losses are caused by diseases and pests in the world. The developing new resistant cultivars and chemical control are the two most commonly used methods for preventing yield losses. However, the usage of chemicals during agricultural production disrupts the balance of a hidden on...
Pepper is an important variety of vegetable that has economic value in human nutrition in Turkey and in the world. Continuous changes in producer and consumer demands also create a competitive environment in pepper breeding. Green pepper cultivation is generally carried out in greenhouse cultivation, and its cultivation has become widespread in ope...
Sustainable Horticulture: Microbial Inoculants and Stress Interaction gives insights into the applications and formulations of microbial inoculants. In recent years, the optimum yields of horticultural plants largely influenced by rising global temperature, biotic stress (attack of pathogens) and abiotic stresses has created extra pressure for the...
Due to their many superior agronomic traits (high yield and fruit quality, resistance/tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress factors, etc.), hybrid vegetable cultivars are widely used in vegetable production all over the world. The first stage of hybrid vegetable breeding is to obtain homozygous pure parental lines. Unfortunately, producing pure li...
Production of homozygous pure parental lines is the first stage of hybrid vegetable breeding. Unfortunately, producing pure lines takes a long time by classical breeding methods, especially in open-pollinated vegetable species, and this period can be up to 8–10 years. Recently, doubled haploid (DH) technology, as a set of biotechnological methods,...
The development of F1 hybrid vegetable varieties emerges as a result of a great effort, long time, investment, knowledge, and advanced technology. The first stage of hybrid vegetable breeding is obtaining pure lines. It is possible to obtain homozygous parent lines used in the production of hybrid varieties with traditional breeding methods. This p...
Summer squash (Cucurbita pepo L.) is one of the important vegetable species preferred by the people of Turkey in terms of their nutritional value. F1 hybrid summer squash varieties are widely used both in the open field and protected cultivation. The majority of these varieties come from abroad, and our dependence on abroad continues. In this study...
Summer squash (Cucurbita pepo L.) is one of the important vegetable species preferred by the people of Turkey in terms of their nutritional value. F1 hybrid summer squash varieties are widely used both in the open field and protected cultivation. The majority of these varieties come from abroad, and our dependence on abroad continues. In this study...
In arid and semi-arid regions, plant responses to water deficits at different phenological stages should be investigated for efficient use of water resources and sustainable irrigation management. This study was conducted under the regional conditions in the Konya province with a semi-arid climate for two years (2016-17) to determine the effects of...
Drought is an abiotic stress factor that negatively affects plant development and causes economic losses in plant production, and its effect is getting significant every day. Spinach contains a high amount of water and drought stress affects its development as well as causing changes in its biochemical contents. In this study, it is aimed to determ...
Drought is one of the most important abiotic factors that restrict the production of agricultural plants. An effective way to avoid the negative effects of drought on crops is to cultivate high-yielding varieties by grafting them onto drought-tolerant rootstocks with a strong root system. For this purpose, five different plant materials were used:...
Recently, flooding stress caused by nonuniform and excessive rainfall, which occurs in most regions of the world due to global climate change, has adversely affected plant growth and development. In many regions, spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) is severely affected by flooding stress during the cultivation period. This study aimed to determine the e...
Water scarcity has emerged as a serious concern for the agricultural sector. There is an urgent need to conserve the existing water resources by using them economically. Moreover, it can prevent the excessive use of water in agriculture by determining the water requirement of plants during different periods. This study determined the changes in the...
Grafted seedlings are used not only for protection from soil-borne diseases but also to
increase tolerance to abiotic stress conditions, improve fruit quality and increase nutrient uptake in the
soil. In this study, it was aimed to determine the effect of different watermelon rootstocks on weight
loss of watermelon fruits, which were obtained at de...
Deficit irrigation practices and utilization of rootstocks that are tolerant to water stress are critical strategies for the protection of water resources and sustainable irrigation management, especially in arid and semi-arid areas. Therefore, this study was carried out to investigate the yield and quality of watermelon grafted onto different root...
F1 cultivars are currently used in vegetable production because of their many superior agronomic advantages (high yield and quality, resistance/tolerance to biotic and/or abiotic stress factors, wide adaptability, etc.). It is not possible to produce hybrid vegetables without homozygous pure parental lines with defined traits and high combining abi...
Kestane kabağı ülkemizde başta tatlı olmak üzere, reçel, marmelat, pasta ve turşu olarak insan beslenmesinde kullanılmaktadır. Kestane kabakları yetiştirildiği bölgenin ekolojik koşullarından etkilenmekte, verim ve meyve kaliteleri önemli düzeyde değişkenlik göstermektedir. Bu çalışmada ülkemizde ticari çeşit olarak tescil edilen ve ekonomik değere...
Water stress is one of the main constraints which could limits crop productivity, especially in arid and semi-arid regions characterized limited water resources. This study was conducted to investigate the seed yield, oil and mineral contents of 44 lines and 4 commercial pumpkin varieties (2 local and 2 hybrids) in irrigated and drought stress cond...
Sunulan çalışma ışınlanmış polen tekniği kullanılarak elde edilmiş dihaploid kabak saf hatlarının bazı meyve ve
tohum özelliklerini belirlemek ve daha sonra yapılması planlanan F₁ hibrit ıslahı çalışmasının başlangıç
materyalleri hakkında bilgi sahibi olmak amacıyla yapılmıştır. Çalışmada kullanılan 28 saf hat hem meyve hem
de tohum özellikleri...
Due to climate change, today, many agricultural areas are affected by drought. It is known that drought has many effects on plants, morphologically, physiologically and phenologically. In the study, the effects of drought stress on the fruit and seed color of the pumpkin genotypes were investigated. For this purpose, in 2017 and 2018, 48 pumpkin ge...
The use of intensive chemicals to increase the yield in agricultural production is increasing day by day and as
a result, chemicals adversely affect human health, environment, and agricultural land. Nowadays, sustainable
agriculture methods are preferred to reduce these adverse effects. The use of beneficial bacteria (Plant growthpromoting
rhizobac...
One of the most important vegetable families commonly grown in around of the world is Cucurbitaceae for economic value, nutrition, consumer’s preference, general adaptability and extent of cultivation. Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) mostly associated with the plant rhizosphere have been established as beneficial for plant growth, yield...
Climate change-associated drought stress in plants is one of the major environmental factors that cause a reduction
in plant growth, development, and productivity. Therefore, an improvement to obtain superior genotypes
that are highly adaptable to arid and semi-arid conditions remains the main objective of the future
breeding efforts. In this conte...
Genetic polymorphism amid plant species is a crucial factor for plant improvement and maintaining their biodiversity. Evaluation of genetic diversity amongst plant species is significant to deal with the environmental stress conditions and their effective involvement in the breeding programs. Hence, in present study, an attempt has been made toward...
Mutation breeding is one of the favorable techniques to the production of new cultivars and lines. But the determination of mutagen type and their appropriate doses the most important points in mutagenesis due to lethality in living organism. In the present study, the winter squash and pumpkin seeds were irradiated with a Co 60 source at five gamma...
Türkiye, çerezlik kabak üretiminde en önemli ülkeler arasındadır. Çalışmanın amacı, ülkenin farklıbölgelerinden toplanan ve S5 kademesine ulaştırılan çerezlik kabak ıslah hatlarında tohum kabuğu ve tohumdakibazı mineral maddelerin miktarını ortaya koymaktır. Bu çalışmada, S5 kademesinde yirmi yedi kabak genotipi vegenotip olarak karakterize edilmiş...
ABSTRACT: Turkey is one of the most important countries in the production of confectionary pumpkin. The aim of the study is to reveal the amount of some mineral elements in seed coat and the seed of confectionary pumpkin candidates which gathered from different regions of the country and reached in S5 level. In the present study, a total of twenty-...
This study is the production of three different pre-chamber, and the mycelial growth stages in each room, 85-90% moisture content, temperature values, 22, 24 and 26 ° C, carpophore circuit formation of the 80-85% moisture content, temperature values, 16, 18 and performed at 20 °Cs. Each application is planned to be four replications and each replic...
zet: Konya ili Ereğli, Karapınar, Emirgazi ve Halkapınar ilçeleri sebze üretim miktarları bakımından incelendiğinde domates, havuç, kavun, karpuz, soğan, sarımsak ve çerezlik kabak türlerinin bölgenin sebze potansiyelini oluşturduğu görülmektedir. Bölge, bu türlerin yetiştiriciliği için önemli bir tarım alanı olarak değerlendirilmektedir. Söz konus...
Fatty acid composition, total phenol and antioxidant activities of pumpkin seeds were determined.
While genotype 109 has the highest seed yield (144.2 kg/da), genotype 106 had the lowest seed yield
(42.9 kg/da). In addition, genotype 109 had the highest yield of seed (43.74 g/da) and yield of seed per
plant (57.70 g). Oil contents of pumpkin ranged...
Kuraklık, yetersiz beslenme, tuzluluk, düşük ve yüksek sıcaklık, toprak ve atmosfer kirliliği, radyasyon bitkisel üretimde verimi sınırlandıran abiotik streslerdir. Sayılan abiyotik stresler içinde kuraklık bitkisel üretimi sınırlandıran en önemli stres koşuludur. Son zamanlarda küresel ısınmanın da gündeme gelmesi ile kuraklık en önemli ekolojik p...
Pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L.) has been growth in most parts of Turkey. Almost none study was performed about irrigation water requirement or evapotranspiration of pumpkin plant in Turkey. This study, therefore, was conducted to determine different irrigation strategies affect on seed yield and quality parameters of drip irrigated pumpkin during perio...
The main objective of this study was to determine total oil, total phenol, antioxidant activity and mineral contents of hull-less pumpkin seeds and also fatty acid composition of seed oils. The results indicated that total oil, total phenol content and antioxidant activity values were found between 33.04 and 46.97 %, 56.94 and 87.15 mg GAE/100 g an...
There is a requirement for registered edible seed pumpkin suitable for eating in Turkey. A total of 81 genotypes collected from the researchers in 2005 originated from Eskisehir, Konya, Nevsehir, Tekirdag, Sakarya, Kayseri and Kirsehir provinces were utilized. The used genetic materials were brought to S5 generation by the research groups among 200...
In the present research, 10 varieties of Citrillus lanatus var. citroides, 8 varieties of Citrillus lanatus var. lanatus genotypes and 1 commercial standard (Bera) watermelon cultivar were used to determine response to salt stress in Selcuk University Agricultural Faculty climate rooms according to the randomized plots design with 3 replications du...
zet: Bu çalışmada 10 Citrillus lanatus var. citroides, 8 Citrillus lanatus var. lanatus kaynaklı karpuz genotipi ile 1 ticari standart karpuz (Bera) çeşidinin tuza tolerans düzeylerini belirlemek amacıyla, 2015 yılında Selçuk Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi'ne ait iklimlendirme odalarında tesadüf parselleri deneme desenine göre 3 tekerrüllü olarak yü...
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Pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L.) is one of the most important plants in Turkey. A 2-year experiment (2013-2014) was conducted in the Konya Plain of Turkey in order to investigate the response of confectionary pumpkin to irrigation intervals. The experiment was laid out in a randomized block design consisting of three irrigation intervals (I7: 7-day, I14...
Confectionary pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L.) is one of the important snacks preferred by consumers in Turkey due to its higher nutrient contents. However, there is no comprehensive study on water management in pumpkin cultivation in many countries including Turkey. Therefore, a 2-year study (2013–2014) was conducted to determine the effects of differe...
Kabak (Cucurbita pepo L.), Türkiye'nin tüm coğrafi bölgelerinde yetiştirilen önemli bir üründür. Zucchini yellow mosaic virus (ZYMV), kabakgiller (Cucur-bitaceae) familyasının tüm türlerini etkilemekte ve yıkıcı etkisinden dolayı bü-yük ekonomik zararlara neden olmaktadır. Kabak türleri ve genotipleri, ZYMV'ne dayanıklılık için uzun süredir dünyanı...
In this research, crude oil and total phenol contents were determined in 29 unit edible pumpkin seeds genotypes. Fatty acid compositions of these pumpkin seed oils were also investigated. According to the results, oil contents of pumpkin seeds ranged from 22.74% to 39.24%. The major unsaturated fatty acids of the samples were oleic acid (26.14% - 3...
ABSRACT In this study, mineral contents and some physical properties, important for the design of equipments for harvesting, processing, transportation, sorting, separation and packaging of white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus (Lange), were researched. Those properties were evaluated as a function of moisture content for the moisture range from...
ABSRACT In this study, the effects of the bacteria grafting increasing plant growing were studied to determine its effects on yield and some yield components of tomato. Tülin F1 tomato genotype was used as trial material and a total of 10 different applications consisting from 52/1-E43, 21/3F, 17/3N, E43 F, 637 Ca, MFDCa1, 52/1, 21/3+637Ca, 52/1 Ze...
In this study, the cultivar of Faselis F1 eggplant was used, and the seedlings were planted in greenhouse on 21 th of April 2010. A total of 10 different bacteria races as following; N 52/1-F E43, F 21/3, N 17/3, and control were applied. The fruit root and leaf mineral compositions were investigated besides taking the parameters which are related...
Some morphological characteristics such as seed yield per fruit, fruit quantity per plant, average fruit weight and size, seed width/length rate and thousand seed weight, seed color and hint easiness of the pumpkin lines for edible seeds in S4 level were determined according to inbred and UPOV parameters. In S4 level of the study, 320 g seed yield...
In this study, mineral contents for human diet and some physical properties that are important for the design of equipments for sowing, harvesting, processing, transportation, sorting, separation and packaging of watermelon seed (cv. Diyarbakır) grown in South Eastern Turkey were determined. Those properties were evaluated as functions of moisture...
ZET Bu çalışma, Selçuk Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi araştırma arazisinde bazı bodur taze fasulye çeşitlerinin ve-rim ve bazı kalite unsurlarının belirlenmesi amacıyla yapılmıştır. Denemede bitkisel materyal olarak, Nadide, Massay, Nova, Gina, Sarıkız, Romano, Bourgondia ve Goffora olmak üzere toplam 8 ticari çeşit kullanılmıştır. Araştırmada; çeşi...
This study was carried out to determine the effect of different rootstocks and cultivars on yield and certain yield characteristics of grafted tomato at the research greenhouse of horticultural department of Agriculture Faculty, Selçuk University, in 2007 and 2008. Gökçe (191) F 1 , Beril F 1 and Alida F 1 hybrid cultivars were grafted on the roots...
Effects of some bacterium inoculation on yield and some yield components of cucumber were investigated. Sandes F 1 cucumber cultivar was used as plant material and planted as 50X50X100 with completely randomized design on 14 th April in 2010. In the trial, there were totally seven different applications, N-52/1, N-17/3, FE-43, F-21/3, 637 Ca, MfdCa...