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 PhD 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 has the potential to 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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