Invited Speaker

Abstract: In cereals, haploid or diploid embryo structures are suitable organisations in practice for amelioration or storage of genotypes or some other biotechnologies (Savaskan 2017). It is possible to reveal of variation as different genotypes from heterozygote or landraces after making homozygote of recessive alleles by doubling of chromosomes using embryo rescue. In these genotypes, characters can be evaluated as qualitative or quantitatively, for instance; dark purple coleoptile could be observed in some doubled haploid (DH) genotypes. The amount of chlorophyl (a/b) and carotenoid have been evaluated in young leafs in DH-6 and DH-8 and some other durum wheat genotypes, while investigating their tolerances to salinity in laboratory conditions (Duran et al, 2010). Colour of grains (amount of carotenoid in harvested grains) in durum genotypes have also been evaluated with field experiment conditions in three different locations of Anatolia and also correlation (r ) has been identified with other grain characters related with agronomical values (Savaskan et al 2003). Here it is possible to determine the rate into correlation (path) of characters and direct and indirect effects of each other. Naturally, the relationships between amount of chlorophyl in young leafs and carotenoid in harvested grains and also harvest index (HI) of genotypes will be able to be interesting subjects to discuss.

Biography: Prof.Dr. Savaskan has got her BSc in Faculty of Sciences belonging to Ankara University in 1980, MSc and PhD in the Guraduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences of the same University 1989 and 1994 respectively. She worked in Turkish Atomic Energy Authority as a scientific researcher in cytology and mutation genetics subjects until 2002. In the same time, she worked for ‘Genetic basis of mutation and related techniques for crop improvement’ in the Department of Genetics belonging to Silesian University in Poland between 1992–1993, supported by FAO/IAEA. After having PhD degree, she concentrated herself on ‘doubled haploid plant production in durum wheat using intergeneric crosses’ and, for this, she worked about that in John Innes Centre, Cereal Genetics Laboratory, Norwich-United Kingdom in 1995, supported by ‘Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Authority’(TUBITAK)/Royal Society (ESEP). In 2002, she began to work as full professor in Süleyman Demirel University, which is one of the young Turkish state University located in the mediterranean region of Turkey, until 2012 October. She has given lecutes on angiosperm embryology, plant cell, microtechniques in under graduate program and molecular basis of mutation, advanced genetics, plant tissue culture etc.. in BSc and PhD programmes. In the mean time, a number of PhD and BSc thesis due to the projects in plant tissue culture techniques have been comleted in her management setting up a ‘plant tissue culture and biodozimeter lab’ in Department of Biology.