Türk Bilimsel Derlemeler Dergisi

Yazarlar: Şebnem KUŞVURAN, Şebnem ELLIALTIOĞLU, H.Yıldız DAŞGAN, Kazım ABAK

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Accession,Melon,Salt stress,Tolerance

Özet: Turkey take place within the origin area and for this reason has many different local melon genotypes. At the same time themigrations over the centuries, the territory of Anatolia, where the intersection of trade routes on diversification also played a role inreasons. On the other hand melon is an open pollinated plant species and heterozygoty rate is very high. Through natural selection manynative accessions have been developed at the different ecological regions in Anatolia. There are very interesting populations in melonswhich have some tolerances to environmental stress conditions. Local melon accessions are grown in different locations in Turkey that wehave done some stress studies on them. We found that, the salt tolerance of the local genotypes were higher than the commercialcultivars.In this article, we want to call attention to the local Koçhisar melon grown around Salt Lake, Van, Van-Chart, and grown in theprovince of Mardin Kiziltepe, Midyat and some melon genotypes for the breeding programme. Improvement of agronomic characteristicsof these genotypes and the development of new varieties tolerant to high salty conditions are important for evaluation of genetic resources.

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