Department of Horticulture

Department of Horticulture

Within the issues of viticulture, vegetable growing,fruit growing and ornamental plants our mission is to ;

-Develop quality,yield and new variety according to market need, breeding and cultivating methods,increase tolerance to disease,pest and adverse environment affects , while carrying out this process doing applied researches by using biotechnology and its technics,

- Register varieties developed as a result of breeding studies, provide sustainability of breeding material,

-Make alternative research to increase product variety,

- Collect,save and define vegetative genetic resources to protect biological variety and have sustainability using and if necessary cultivate and make research to apply it in breeding ,

- Publish at least one peer viewed journal and coordinate integrated projects and determine priority in research topics,

- Observe vegetation in basic plant groups, make reports in developing and harvest periods including crop prediction and make offers preventing probable crisis    

- Publish research results in turkish and english and do studies developing the institute in long term.

-Maintenance for gren areas, new gren areas and planting and afforestation

- Other Tasks

Research Groups of the Head Department

1-Viticulture

2-Vegetable growing and Ornamental plants

3-Fruit research


UNIT STAFF

Murat KAYA
Agricultural Engineer

Mehmet ÇİÇEK
Agricultural Engineer

Kenan ÇELİK
Agricultural Engineer
 
Sibel VURAL
Agricultural Engineer

Edip ALAS
Agricultural Engineer


Hatice ŞAHİNER ÖYLEK
Agricultural Engineer

Şükran ATEŞ
Agricultural Engineer



Yusuf ÖCAL
Agricultural Engineer



Sami KAYA
Technician
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