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Master Thesis Identification of Salt Stress Responsive Protyeins in Wild Sugar Beet (beta Maritima) Using 2d-Page With Maldi-tof/Tof System(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2012) Çakıroğlu, Çiğdem; Karakaya, Hüseyin Çağlar; Karakaya, Hüseyin Çağlar; 04.03. Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics; 04. Faculty of Science; 01. Izmir Institute of TechnologyHigh salinity is one of the abiotic stresses, which affects the homeostasis, growth and productivity of plants. In plants, uptake of the non-essential salt ions negatively affects the anatomy, physiology and metabolism, changes the osmotic balance in cells and causes abundant dehydration. In this case, higher plants develop salt tolerance mechanisms such as induction of related signaling pathways, effluxion of salt ions, accumulation of these toxic ions in their vacuoles, activation of their detoxification mechanisms and production of osmoprotectans. In this study, identification of salt responsive proteins in moderately halophyte wild type sugar beet Beta vulgaris ssp. maritima was aimed. In order to investigate the protein-based natural stress tolerating mechanisms, plants were exposed to 150 mM NaCl and total proteins were extracted. Differentially expressed proteins were identified by proteomic approaches including MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometry combined two dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The results revealed that enzymatic antioxidants and secondary members of antioxidative pathways are responsive in salt stress. In conclusion, these detected proteins demonstrate that antioxidative system may be the major defense mechanism in halophytic plants.Master Thesis Identification and Characterization of Manganese Tolerance Genes in Beta Vulgaris Subsp. Maritima(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2011) Erbaşol, Işıl; Karakaya, Hüseyin Çağlar; Karakaya, Hüseyin Çağlar; 04.03. Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics; 04. Faculty of Science; 01. Izmir Institute of TechnologyManganese is an essential element for higher organisms however uptake of excess amount of manganese causes toxicity. Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima, the member of Chenopodiaceae family, is known to tolerate high concentration of sodium. Due to its living conditions, Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima adapted many different stress conditions. Therefore it is an ideal plant for studying plant tolerance mechanisms. In this study, we aimed to identify the genes which are responsible for manganese tolerance in Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima by screening its cDNA library in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells. After initial screening in the presence of toxic manganese concentration; 2,7mM MnCl2, three resistant yeast colonies were selected. After the sequence and similarity analysis, two genes which might involve in manganese tolerance were identified and named as BmMn1 and BmMn2. The results of solid media tests with different yeast strains which transformed with the genes revealed that BmMn1 provides a remarkable manganese tolerance like BmMn2 and slightly nickel tolerance. They do not show tolerance to other metals such as zinc, cadmium, boron and cobalt. Identified manganese concentrations in pmr1 yeast strainstransformed with BmMn1, BmMn2 or empty vector pointed that BmMn1 and BmMn2 transport excess manganese out of the cell. In addition, GFP localization in the yeast cell proved that the BmMn1 and BmMn2 are located in Golgi apparatus. qRT-PCR analyses of Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima which was exposed to 2mM Mn2+ suggested a dynamic regulation for the expression of these two genes. The results indicate that BmMn1 and BmMn2 have a role in detoxification of excess amount of manganese in Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima.