- CEMAL KURT
- Assoc. Prof
- [email protected]
- 0905336561162
- Turkey
- Cukurova University
- Secondary or Higher Education Establishment
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I am working as an associate professor of plant breeding, agronomy and plant genetics at the Department of Field Crops, Cukurova University. The Çukurova region, where the university is located, has very fertile soil and a Mediterranean climate. Due to these features, Adana has a say in producing vegetables and field crops in Turkey. Çukurova University was founded in 1973 and the first faculty to be opened was the Faculty of Agriculture. Now, Çukurova University has 19 faculties, 4 institutes, 3 colleges, and 11 vocational schools and more than 50 thousand students. The Faculty of Agriculture is the best agricultural faculty in Turkey with its research area of more than 100 hectares, greenhouses, laboratories covering different disciplines such as molecular genetics, tissue culture, plant physiology, instrumental analysis, and most importantly, researchers who are experts in their fields.
- Topic 1.1.1-2024 (IA) Sustainability of Mediterranean irrigated agriculture through the implementation of WEFE Nexus approach.
- Topic 1.3.1-2024 (IA) – Developing cost-effective and sustainable technologies adapted to Mediterranean Food Systems to decrease food loss and waste. | Topic 2.3.1-2024 (RIA ) Leveraging urban and local food systems for sustainable food systems transformation
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My areas of expertise are plant breeding, germplasm characterization, crops biofortified, GWAS, and agronomy. I have huge germplasm for different crops such as sesame, peanut, safflower, cultivated and wild soybean, lentil, wheat, and chickpea. I am leading a COST project, we are screening sesame germplasm for Fe, Zn and Se and performing GWAS analysis for biofortifying the sesame germplasm from the Mediterranean belt. I am very open to collaborating for different PRIMA calls as a partner with my expertise and germplasms. Turkiye has different ecological regions and I can provide facilities for experimental areas in those regions.
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biofortification, sesame, drought stress, heavy metal accumulation, climate change, sustainable agriculture, wild soybean, peanut, oil crops, wheat, legumes, GWAS.