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Book Part Food Question in Planning: Perspectives From Two Turkish Metropolis(Springer Nature, 2025) Özçam, Z.; Senalp, S.Ö.This study examines the integration of urban food systems into planning practices within Türkiye's two major metropolises: İzmir and Ankara. Addressing the challenges posed by climate change, urbanization, and economic crises, the research advocates for a transformative approach to urban food systems through socio-ecological and circularity frameworks. It identifies systemic vulnerabilities in the current agri-food systems, including environmental degradation, social inequalities, and inefficiencies in food production, distribution, and consumption. Through qualitative methodologies—semi-structured interviews, ethnographic observations, and content analysis of strategic planning documents—the study explores local agri-food strategies, emphasizing the critical need for holistic urban food planning. While İzmir demonstrates significant progress with its basin-based agricultural strategies, Ankara’s fragmented initiatives reveal a pressing need for cohesive urban food strategies. Both cities struggle with integrating rural-urban food linkages and systemic planning for storage, logistics, and equitable food access. The findings underscore the potential of localized, participatory governance in enhancing food sovereignty and resilience. However, the research highlights that piecemeal strategies remain insufficient to address the multifaceted challenges of food insecurity and environmental sustainability, advocating for comprehensive, equitable, and regenerative urban food systems as critical components of sustainable urban food planning and development. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024.Book Part Citation - Scopus: 3Tomato: Genetics, Genomics, and Breeding of Health-Related Traits(Springer Nature, 2023) Çelik,I.; Gürbüz Çolak,N.; Doğanlar,S.; Frary,A.Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a popular crop due to its versatility and nutritional quality. In addition to its nutritional content, tomato is rich in various phytochemicals that are known to have beneficial effects on human health. These bioactive components include pigments like lycopene and Β-carotene, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), phenolic compounds, polyamines, and glycoalkaloids. Tomato metabolites have various bioactivities such as antihypertensive, antioxidant, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic, antiallergenic, antiatherogenic, antithrombotic, and antimicrobial effects. Research aimed at improving tomato for many of these specific activities is still in its infancy; however, a foundation of knowledge has been established for health-related (HR) traits in the crop. In this chapter, previous works surveying tomato germplasm for HR traits, conventional breeding, and genetic investigation of these characteristics are described. We also discuss research aimed at HR gene mapping and isolation as well as efforts to improve these traits via genetic engineering and genome editing. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023.Book Part Avant-Garde Hydrogels as Stem Cell Niche for Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine(Springer Nature, 2023) Yilmaz,H.D.; Arslan,Y.E.Cardiovascular diseases remain the primary cause of death in the modern world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), almost 18 million people lose their lives each year due to cardiac dysfunction. Nearly 75% of the cases are related to heart attack, stroke, and heart failure. Furthermore, the limited restoration capacity of the adult cardiac tissue leads to irreversible changes in myocardial injury and ischemia, which seriously increases the mortality rates. Currently, the available therapeutic approaches for cardiovascular dysfunctions mainly depend on pharmaceutical drugs, vascular assist devices, or organ transplantations in severe cases. However, these strategies cannot prevent ischemia-related damages or restore the dysfunction of heart tissue. Besides, there are certain limitations, including donor shortage, thrombosis of the device, immune rejection reactions, and operative morbidity of the patient. Therefore, combining stem cells with outstanding hydrogels has become a critically important phenomenon in treating cardiovascular disease. Today, stem cell-based applications form the pivot point of regenerative treatments due to their differentiation and immunomodulatory capacity. However, due to low cellular retention and the inhomogeneous therapeutic activities, the effectiveness of stem cell regeneration in clinical and preclinical studies is reduced. Hence, the synergetic approaches of the injectable hydrogels with stem cells and subcellular bioactive tools may hold the promises of the next-generation therapies. Over the last decade, various functional hydrogels from natural, synthetic, or decellularized tissue precursors have been developed and investigated for cardiovascular applications. In this chapter, advances in stem cell therapy have been discussed with the latest research on functional hydrogels for cardiovascular regeneration. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023.Book Part A Critical Review of Deployable Truss Masts and Proposal of a New Mast: Hidam(Springer Nature, 2023) Cebeci, Y.; Demirel, M.; Kiper, G.This paper investigates the factors which affect the packing ratio of deployable articulated truss masts and investigates the necessary design criteria for new designs with enhanced packing ratio. First, the available deployable articulated truss masts are examined, and the design parameters of these structures are worked out. Then a novel design called HiDAM is proposed with superior packing ratio compared to similar ones in the literature. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.