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Master Thesis Induction of Hairy Root Culture in Eggplant With Rhizobium Rhizogenes(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2021) Öztürk, Tuba; Doğanlar, SamiIn this study, It has been used two agropine strains (ATCC 15834 and ATCC 43057) of R. rhizogenes to compare hairy root induction in hypocotyl and cotyledon explants of eggplant. Transformation frequency was found to be the highest in hypocotyl explants (49.4%) infected with ATCC 15834. Thirty nine hairy root clones were selected based on their hairy root phenotype. The transgenic status of 15 of these clones was tested by PCR using rol gene primers. Hairy roots infected with ATCC 15834 were grown for 8 weeks in MS liquid medium. At the end of this growth period, the growth ratio of the hairy roots was measured. The root biomass was 6.52 g/DW for hypocotyl and 9.83 g/DW for cotyledon-derived clones. Biochemical analyses of clones were performed. Total phenolic contents were evaluated for hypocotyl and cotyledon-derived clones yielding 8.56 mg/g DW and 8.81 mg/g DW, respectively. The average total flavonoid content was 2.12 mg/g DW in hypocotyl-derived clones, and 1.90 mg/g DW in cotyledon-derived clones. On average, these amounts of both phenolic and flavonoid contents were significantly higher than those obtained for untransformed eggplant roots. Overall the results indicated that eggplant hairy roots are a useful source of secondary metabolites. In the future, the production of metabolites of interest such as steroidal glycoalkaloids or phenolics can be improved using elicitors in eggplant.Master Thesis Development of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Markers Using Genotyping by Sequencing Technique for Determination of Genetic Diversity and Population Structure in Hazelnut(01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2021) Yanar, Ertuğrul Gazi; Doğanlar, SamiHazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) is a critical commodity for Turkey due to its economic and nutritional value. Turkey ranks first in world hazelnut production with 65-75% of the market. Due to the signifacance of this crop, it is crucial to preserve Turkish hazelnut genetic diversity. In the current study, a panel representing the entire national collection of 430 accessions was used. Genetic characterization of the panel revealed 7609 high-quality SNPs, 5567 of which were physically mapped to the Tombul reference genome. Fingerprint analysis indicated that all individuals could be distinguished with only seven SNP markers. Population structure analysis of the dataset indicated that the panel's genetic relationships were explained by three clusters containing 8, 17, and 25 accessions, respectively. Nearly half of the accessions had admixed ancestry. The admixed material contained 8 cultivars, 22 landraces, and 12 wild accessions indicating that nearly 50% of each type of material had admixed ancestry. An unweighted neighbor-joining dendrogram was constructed using a distance matrix computed with the identity by state distance measure. The calculated dissimilarity values ranged from 0.15 to 0.30 with a mean of 0.26. This study is the first time that the Gras-Di sequencing approach was used on a nut tree and provides a new perspective on hazelnut genetics. In addition, the panel will serve as a wellcharacterized genetic resource for future work on this economically important tree nut crop.Master Thesis Association Mapping for Oil and Protein Content in Hazelnut (corylus Avellana L.)(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2020) Söylemez, Fatmanur; Doğanlar, SamiEuropean hazelnut has an important place in terms of nutritional and economic value among tree nut species. Because of its nutritional content, the consumption of hazelnuts promotes human health in many ways. These nutritional components are controlled by multiple genes and affected by the environment; therefore, they are quantitative traits. The vast majority of world hazelnut production is provided by Turkey. So it is important to develop hazelnuts with higher nutritional quality for our country. In this work, we aimed to associate genetic diversity data and oil and protein content of hazelnuts to identify QTL. For this purpose oil and protein content were measured in kernels of 96 accessions. Genotypic data were obtained with 30 SSR markers and resulted in 407 polymorphic alleles. According to allelic data, the mean dissimilarity value was 0.52 (52%) for the 96 accessions. Population structure analysis resulted in three clusters with 30, 30, and 16 accessions. Twenty accessions could not be assigned to any cluster and were considered admixed. Association mapping between allelic and phenotypic data indicated that five loci were significantly associated with oil content. The most significant result for oil content belonged to B628-307 loci (p=0.0002, r2=0.145). Three loci were detected for protein content. Among them, A613-153 had the most significant effect (p=0.003, r2= 0.088). We hope that our survey of germplasm and the identified loci associated with oil and protein amount can accelerate hazelnut breeding. In the future this study can contribute to develop new genotypes with enhanced nutritional value.Master Thesis Metabolic and Genomic Profiling for Taste and Aroma Traits in Tomato (solanum Lycopersicum)(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2017) Çakıroğlu, Mehtap; Doğanlar, SamiTomato is one of the most important crops for humans both in our country and the world because of its economic importance and high nutritional quality. Nowadays many people complain about the flavor of tomato. In previous work, researchers have mainly focused on traits such as yield, color, biotic and abiotic stress tolerance which resulted in the loss of flavor. Volatile metabolites are one of the most important flavor contributors in tomato along with organic acids and sugars. More than 400 volatile molecules are found in tomato, but only 15 to 20 are significant in composing tomato’s characteristic flavor. Integration of metabolomics, transcriptomics and proteomics work in recent years has accelerated the speed of genomics studies. Despite this increased interest, there is a limited number of studies that identified quantitative trait loci (QTL) for flavor and aroma in tomato. The aim of this study was to identify QTL using an advanced backcross population of 85 interspecific inbred lines generated by crossing S. lycopersicum cv TA209 x S. pimpinellifolium wild LA1589. Identification of QTL for sugars, organic acids and volatile metabolites is essential to identify candidate genes involved in tomato flavor. Identification of QTLs was undertaken by screening advanced backcross lines using GC and HPLC. A total of 51 COSII and 10 COS markers were positioned on the IBL map. In this way, 25 QTLs were identified. Of these QTLs, one locus was identified for lactic acid and the other 24 loci were identified for volatile compounds. For some of the QTLs identified for taste and aroma characters, alleles from the S. pimpinellifolium parent were favorable. These results showed that S. pimpinellifolium can be used as a source of flavor traits in order to improve elite tomato lines.Master Thesis Development of High-Yielding and Disease Resistant Processing Tomato Lines Using Molecular Marker Technology(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2015) Özbek, Ayten Gizem; Doğanlar, SamiFresh market and processing tomatoes are an important part of the daily diet. Processing tomatoes are used for tomato paste, ketchup, soup and drying. Processing tomatoes are grown under field and/or greenhouse conditions where abiotic (cold, drought, salt) and biotic (bacteria, fungi, viruses and nematodes) stress factors can affect yield and quality. Breeding programs aim to provide disease resistant lines with high quality fruits to farmers and the processing industry. Classical breeding and markerassisted selection (MAS) are two important ways for development of novel inbred lines and tomato cultivars. Classical breeding is long term and based on phenotypic results while MAS provides genotypic information more easily and quickly. In this project, tomato lines were assessed for improved quality of various economic and agronomic features: fruit weight, external color, firmness, flowering, stem scar, fruit shape, wall thickness, yield, brix, internal color, number of flowers and number of fruits. F2 and F3 populations derived from high yielding tomato F1 hybrid MS1453 were scored for these phenotypic features. CAPs and SSR markers were used to genotype the plants and to determine QTL regions controlling the phenotypic features in the F2 population. In addition, disease resistance for Fusarium Crown and Root Rot, Tomato Mosaic Virus, Root Knot Nematode, Verticillium Wilt, and Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus diseases were determined for 261 individuals to identify new sources of candidate disease resistance.Master Thesis Development of Subnils for Fine Mapping of Salt Tolerance in Tomato (solanum Lycopersicum)(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2014) Top, Oğuz; Doğanlar, SamiSalt tolerance is a complex trait that is not easily bred into plants. Salt tolerance can be manifested in several ways such as the ability to increase shoot and/or root mass despite salt stress, a greater than normal accumulation of antioxidants like phenolic compounds and flavonoids, and an improved ability to exclude sodium ions. In previous work, S. lycopersicum M82, S. pennellii LA716 and a S. pennellii IL population were evaluated for growth and their levels of antioxidant activity and content under both control and salt stress conditions (150 mM NaCl) (Frary et al., 2010). These data were used to identify QTLs responsible for controlling antioxidant parameters under both control and stress conditions. Salt tolerance characteristics were observed in IL11-1, IL6-1 and IL7-4-1. The aim of this project was the development of subNILs for fine mapping of salt tolerance related traits within these introgression regions. To this end, each Solanum pennellii IL was crossed with Solanum lycopersicum M82 to produce F2 populations of approximately 1600 individuals for IL6-1, 1600 individuals for IL7-4-1 and 3000 individuals for IL11-1. These individuals were screened with molecular markers that delimit the 30-40 cM introgressions contained in each line. Because of low number of recombinants in IL6-1 and IL7-4-1 populations, they were not selfed to produce subNILs for future analysis. Recombinant F2 plants in IL11-1 population were self-pollinated to generate F3 recombinant families. Each F3 recombinant plant was characterized with several codominant molecular markers in the introgression region. 228 homozygous recombinant F3 plants and 620 heterozygous recombinant plants were identified. At the end of this work, fine mapping populations were developed and in the future they will be grown hydroponically under both control and salt conditions and will be screened for physiological, mineral and biochemical parameters. By statistical comparison between control and salt-treated plants, it will then be possible to identify which recombinants carry regions with significant effects on the various salt tolerance responses. Thus, each gene will be narrowed down to a particular chromosome region.Master Thesis Molecular Genetic Analysis in Sesame (sesamum Indicum L.)(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2010) Seyitalioğlu, Ümmü; Doğanlar, SamiIn this study, 156 Turkish sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) accessions were characterized morphologically and 161 accessions were characterized genotypically. A total of 15 criteria were used for morphological characterization. Simple Sequence Repeats (SSRs, microsatellites) were used to characterize genetic variability among Turkish accessions. A total of 318 new EST based SSRs were developed for genotypic analysis. Also, these microsatellites were screened in Korean-Japan and African sesame accessions (parents) for future map construction studies. According to the morphological analysis, some characters showed variation whereas some characters had no variation among accessions. For example, height of first capsule, capsule number per plant, plant height, number of branches, number seeds/capsule, days to 1st flower and days to %50 flower characters showed variation among accessions. However, stem hair, leaf hairs, axil flower number, number of carpels/capsule and capsule hairs showed variation for only a few accessions. Also, growth habit, branching and capsule splitting characters had no variation. In accordance with genetic characterization, survey results showed only five polymorphic markers among 318 EST based SSR markers. Also, in this study, genetic distance of Turkish sesame accessions was calculated using DICE matrix and UPGMA (Unweighted Pair Group Method) arithmetical averages via 19 EST based SSR fragments. Genetic analysis showed that Turkish sesame accessions have fairly low genetic diversity. As a result, genetic diversity among Turkish sesame accessions were defined and the genetic relationships of Turkish sesame accessions were established.Master Thesis Characterization of Peppers for Antioxidant Content and Virus Resistance(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2008) Keçeli, Mehmet Ali; Doğanlar, SamiIn the first part of this study, total water soluble antioxidant activity, phenolic compounds and vitamin C content of 29 Turkish and 14 non-Turkish pepper cultivars were determined. Significant trait diversity was found in the cultivars with the most variation (7.4-fold) seen for total antioxidant capacity which ranged from 2565 to 18957 .mol Trolox/kg. Vitamin C content for the peppers ranged from 522 to 1631 mg/kg, a 3.1-fold difference, while total phenolic content for the pepper cultivars ranged from 607 to 2724 mg/kg, a 4.5-fold difference. A strong correlation between total antioxidant capacity and phenolic content (r . 0.71) was also seen. Significant variation for antioxidant content in Turkish germplasm indicates that this material can be used for improvement and genetic mapping of nutritional content in pepper. In the second part of this study, amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP), cleaved amplified polymorphism (CAPs) and simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers were used to map gene(s) for cucumber mosaic virus resistance. The mapping was conducted using a F2 population derived from a cross between Capsicum annuum cv. Jupiter (susceptible) X C. frutescens (resistant). The F2 population, consisting of 76 individuals, was screened with 13 AFLP primer pairs, 60 CAPs markers and 30 SSR markers to detect markers possibly linked to CMV resistance gene(s). As a result, 7 QTL were found which are related with resistance to CMV in pepper. This will provide pepper breeders an opportunity to use these markers for marker-assisted selection for CMV resistance in pepper.Master Thesis Genetic Mapping and Characterization of Eggplant for Glycoalkaloid Content(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2010) Gürbüz, Nergiz; Doğanlar, SamiMost plants including eggplant, produce toxins against insects, pathogens and animals. The biggest class of these toxins is alkaloids. Generally plants produce alkaloids in a glycosidic form which are called glycoalkaloids. Glycoalkaloids have toxic effects on human health. For example, as a result of disrupting the cell membrane, the gastrointestinal track and other organs are damaged. Glycoalkaloids are not only toxic to human health but also they have beneficial effects. For example, they decrease cholesterol level, and have anticancer activity. And also they are used as a precursor for steroidal drugs. Therefore, isolation and determination of glycoalkaloids content is important. For this aim, column chromatography was performed and solamargine and solasonine were obtained. Totally 122,8 mg solamargine, solasonine and solamargine and solasonine mix from Solanum linnaeanum were obtained. Their identities were confirmed via 1H NMR and mass spectroscopy. For determination of glycoalkaloid content HPLC method was developed via changing different parameters such as mobile phase, pH, temperature, flow rate and column type. It was found that separation of glycoalkaloids by using RP column without phosphate buffer was not sufficient. On the other hand, separation of glycoalkaloids by using carbohydrate column was better but this type of column is not stable. Furthermore, linkage mapping was performed by using CAPs and SSR methods; and 385 COSII markers and 221 SSR markers were tested. Of the tested markers, 38 of the COS II markers and 28 of the SSR markers were found to be polymorphic. A total of 52 of these markers were mapped.Master Thesis Development of Molecular Markers Linked To Me1 Gene Conferring Resistance To Nematode in Pepper(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2012) Öztürk, Leyla; Doğanlar, SamiPepper (Capsicum annuum L.) belongs to family Solanaceae. It is an agronomically important plant originating from Mexico. Pepper yield, quality and growth are limited by plant nematode parasitism. Root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) are the most damaging sedentary endoparasites. M. incognita race 2 is the most common root-knot nematode found in Turkey. The Me1 gene which confers resistance to M. incognita was mapped in pepper to a 28 cM interval on chromosome 9. The aim of this study was to develop molecular markers linked to this nematode resistance gene. Phenotypic characterization of nematode resistance was performed for 200 F2 individuals from the cross between resistant pepper cultivar PM217 and Turkish susceptible cultivar AZN-1. In the F2 individuals, 151 plants (76%) were evaluated as resistant, 49 plants (24%) were susceptible. Markers were tested on parents of the mapping population to identify polymorphisms. A total of 30 standard markers and 548 new marker combinations were tested. Of these 578 markers, 75 (13%) were polymorphic. They were applied to F2 population and 28 (37%) showed clear segregation on F2 population. Eighteen of the markers (64%) segregated dominantly, 10 of the markers (36%) segregated codominantly. Markers located near Me1 on chromosome 9 were used for the construction of a linkage map. Out of three markers, SCAR_CD was the nearest marker to Me1 gene with a distance of 1.1 cM. These markers will provide selection at the genotypic level by marker-assisted selection, which will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of pepper breeding for nematode resistance.