20 articles in this issue
Çagri Çaglar Sinmez,Askin Yasar
Organic animal production is a natural breeding system in which animal health is protected by giving priority to alternative medicines and treatment as needed by applying appropriate management and feeding methods based on the physiological requirements o... see more
Ali Yigit,Askin Yasar
Manuscripts, containing thousands of years of information and experiences about the treatment of diseases of other animal species, mostly horses, are known by different names such as baitarname, esbname, haylname and bazname. These authentic works, which ... see more
Mahmut Keskin,Sabri Gül,Osman Biçer,Zuhal Gündüz
Although the intensification of agricultural production is the reason for feeding of increasing human population the demand for organic or ecological products is increasing in parallel with the social consciousness in recent years. Hair goat breeding is m... see more
Ahmet Öztürk,Besim Karabulut
Organic agriculture approach started with coming up the adverse effect’s of chemical and genetic inputs on human health and natural environment in time, it has been also continued by raising the importance nowadays. Organic agriculture production amount o... see more
Elif Kinik,Fisun Gürsel Çelikel
Rosa canina L. cuttings were obtained from the flora of Ondokuz Mayis University campus of Kurupelit. Woody cuttings were placed into the medium of perlite and turf mixture with a ratio of 1:1 under mist propagation system with bottom heating system. Ros... see more
Aydan Atalar,Nurcan Çetinkaya
The efforts to break down the lignocellulosic complex found in the cell wall of straws, besides digestible cellulose and hemicellulose by rumen fermentation, improvement of straw digestibility by the degradation of indigestible lignin fraction of complex ... see more
Sevim Demir,Fisun Gürsel Çelikel
Sea daffodil (Pancratium maritimum L.) is the only known Pancratium species that is naturally grown in Turkey, belongs to the Amaryllidaceae family, a group of monocotyledons. P. maritimum L. is a perennial Mediterranean plant. It grows naturally in the s... see more
Mustafa Sürmen,Emre Kara
This study was carried out during the summer of 2014 to determine alternative quality forage sources that could be grown in the Aydin ecological conditions. In the study, effects of 3 different mixtures and 2 pure species (100% Buckwheat, 25% Buckwheat -7... see more
Suat Akyürek,Besim Karabulut
The agro-tourism, which is one of the alternative tourism types and increasingly becoming significant today, has developed by combination of agriculture and tourism. Agro-tourism is a tourism activity in which individuals preferring to move away from inte... see more
Kemal Kurt,Ömer Köksal Erman,Hakan Demir,Osman Seyyar
In this study, the Turkish opilionid fauna is evaluated in terms of endemism and it is aimed that this group reveals the present situation and the importance in the biological richness of Turkey. For this purpose, studies on the harvestmen in our country ... see more
Hasan Çelikyürek,Kadir Karakus
Ecological livestock is a production method which allows all kinds of natural behaviors to be shown, fed with ecological feeds, in order to increase efficiency additives are not used, healthier products are offered to consumers, is sensitive to environmen... see more
Funda Ulusu,Elif Yavuzaslanoglu
Greenhouse tomato production is in the first place in Turkey, 34% of total tomato production (3.614.472 tonnes) is under greenhouse conditions. The increase in yield in Turkey is due to the spread of undergrowth cultivation besides the use of qualified va... see more
Bülent Bayraktar
Nowadays, organic products are produced without the use of chemical additives in natural conditions is constantly increasing every day. However, the new organic food market and organic production evaluation and development of areas with high potential for... see more
Ayhan Ceyhan,Vecihi Aksakal,Gürsel Dellal,Mehmet Koyuncu,Nedim Kosum,Turgay Taskin
Conventional production methods are widely used in agricultural production in order to provide healthy and balanced nutrition to the growing population in the world. However, the chemical substances used to increase the efficiency and combat against disea... see more
Zeynep Sönmez,Memis Özdemir,Vecihi Aksakal
The aim of study were to present relationships between birth weight of 94 Holstein calves with genotype structures of each sample’s Growth Hormone (GH) determined through PCR-RFLP method and to detect the population’s genetic variation by determining the ... see more
Ramazan Çakmakçi,Rafet Aslanatas,Yasar Erdogan,Ümmügülsüm Erdogan
Coruh valley has an important biological diversity in term of plants, flora-fauna, wildlife and ecosystems. These regions contain the landraces, wild and weedy relatives, other wild, herbaceous and flowering trees, herbaceous flowering plants, medicinal a... see more
Levent Arin,Haydar Balci
The research was carried out to investigate the effect of plant materials which are used as an alternative to synthetic chemicals in organic agriculture (thyme, mint, basil and garlic oil, hot pepper, and neem tree seed extract) and some organic acids (sa... see more
Turkey, which is among the major gene centers of the world and has a special place in plant genetic diversity. However, many plant genetic resources, including geophytes, are under genetic erosion because of the environmental and other problems and theref... see more
Musa Karaalp,Hacer Kaya,Vecihi Aksakal
Organically produced chicken eggs have more nutritional and sensory properties, and they do not contain any harmful substances to the health of the consumer. Research has shown that, unlike what is expected, there is no significant difference between dry ... see more
Tuba Acet,Kadriye Özcan
In this study, total phenolic content, antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of the extracts obtained with different polarity solvents of horsetail (Equisetum arvense) plant, which is being used by people in Gümüshane province for different medical pur... see more