Support for the Project Submitted to TÜBİTAK 1001 “Scientific and Technological Research Projects Support Program” by our Department
The project named “Bioinformatics, molecular and cytogenetic analysis of endogenous pararetrovirus (EPRV) DNA sequences in legumes” was entitled to be supported within the scope of TUBITAK 1001 Scientific and Technological Research Projects Support Program. Expert consultant evaluations were examined by Tübitak in the context of previous project outputs, multi-disciplinary priority areas and relations with R&D subjects, and it was included in the 25.2% support rate among the projects presented.
In the project, Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, Ayhan Şahenk Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies, Agricultural Genetic Engineering Department, Agricultural Bioinformatics Department Lecturer Prof. Dr. Ahmet Latif TEK executive and Ph.D. student Hümeyra YILDIZ AKKAMIŞ is a scholarship holder.
As Plant Chromosome Laboratory, within the scope of the project, it is aimed to identify and model retroviruses integrated into the genome, which is one of the moving repetitive DNA sequences that play a role in different dynamic structures of the plant genome, with bioinformatics, molecular and cytogenetic approaches, and to reveal their possible biological and agricultural dynamics. In line with this goal, genome-wide identification of pararetroviruses in the Caulimoviridae family of legumes, an important plant family in Turkey and in the world, will be made. The legume group includes many agriculturally important plant species. It is evaluated that the obtained outputs will provide a basic reference and original outputs in genetics, genome and breeding studies in life sciences. In this respect, basic scientific data can potentially be a paradigm changer in developing varieties resistant to biotic stresses caused by viral factors in the long term in agriculturally important plants.
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