Plant Biotechnology Laboratory

Germplasm of woody and herbaceous plants is long-term conserved via cryopreservation for the first time in Turkey at GIT, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Plant Biotechnology Laboratory.

The  researchers of  Plant Biotechnology Laboratory at GIT, Molecular Biology and Genetics Department are experienced in collection and conservation of plant materials and determination of genetic integrity of long-term cultured plants. Cryopreservation of various woody and herbaceous plants including Pistacia vera, Photinia fraseri, Pistacia lentiscus, Thymus vulgaris, Thymus cariensis, Sequoia sempervirens is also succeeded. Vegetative tissues of mature pistachio plants are also long-term conserved for the first time via cryopreservation in the frame of a TUBİTAK TBAG 209T030 research project with a collaboration of GIT, Dicle and Batman University. In addition, genetic integrity of the cryopreserved plants is also assessed via RAPD markers and no important genetic variation is determined among conserved plants.

Up to now, 1 SCI-indexed article (Akdemir et al., 2012a) and 1 book chapter (Akdemir et al., 2012b) are published in the frame of the project.

References: 

Akdemir H, Süzerer V, Tilkat E, Yildirim H, Onay A, Özden Çiftçi Y (2012). J. of Plant Biochem. & Biotech. (in press) DOI 10.1007/s13562-012-0109-2.

Akdemir H, Gago J, Gallego PP , Ozden Çiftçi Y (2012). In: Transgenic Plants - Advances and Limitations, Yelda Ozden Çiftçi (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-0181-9, InTech Publishing, pp. 27-62.