A visit, organized by Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences , was performed to get information about our breeding facilities.
Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, founded in 1976, is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary and nonprofit agricultural research institution directly subordinate to Yunnan Provincial Government and responsible for the research tasks concerning the overall, critical and strategic agricultural sci-tech issues of Yunnan Province. In the past 30 years since our inception, we have made great contributions for Yunnan's agriculture and rural economic development, particularly for Yunnan's major agricultural products to take the historic shift from chronic shortages to an overall balance with surpluses during good years, and the development of agricultural biological resources to become a pillar industry.
Firstly, the researcher group visited Turkey Seed Gene Bank (TSGB). The group informed by Dr. kürşat ÖZBEK, about plant genetic resources and ex situ conservation methods in Turkey. Then, the group visited departments of TSGB and took details about their task. After TSGB visit, the group continued the trip with Biotechnology Research Centre (BRC), where Dr.Fatih OLMEZ and Dr.Cuma KARAOGLU gave a talk to explain structure of BRC and on-going project. The group finalized the trip with molecular biology and plant tissue culture laboratory visit.
