MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS OF TURKEY

This is meant to be the 10th volume of the series Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World. Similarly, to the previous volumes, the work will deal -in a monographic form- with MAPs characteristic/famous or simply known of Turkey, a large country that is connecting Europe with Asia. Turkey has extremely rich and varied topographic/ecologic conditions. As a result, the flora of Turkey abounds in an astonishingly great number of endemic MAP species. Traditional, present and possible prospective uses will be discussed. Scientific and technological achievements will be equally presented. Briefly, the volume is aimed to look carefully at our present knowledge of this vast interdisciplinary domain of medicinal and aromatic plants with a focus on Turkey. In the era of global climate change and Covid-pandemics, building on the huge Turkish traditions, the proposed volume of the series is expected to make an important contribution to the better knowledge and understanding of the MAP wealth of the World.

Habil. Dr., Prof.Dr. Máthé, Ákos has 40+ years’ background of teaching and research in plant ecophysiology, agricultural botany. He is Professor Emeritus at the Albert Kázmér Faculty of Széchenyi István University, Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary.Two times Fulbright Scholar (1986 and 1995), visiting professor at University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna (1995-1997).Teaching/Research/Consulting and Publications in ecophysiology, plant domestication/introduction, production of MAPs, new crops, new uses of plants, including feed-additives.Served as president of ICMAP (2014 – 2019) and Chairman of ISHS Section MAPs (2006-2014). Founding secretary of Hungarian Medicinal Plant Association.Collaborated in international projects: FEED SEG, CEEPUS, ERASMUS+, HERBAID, GOOD HERBS, Herbs4Youth, EOHUB, etc. Authored some 100 publications, former editor of Herba Hungarica, Acta Agronomica Hungarica.Convener/speaker at international scientific congresses, conferences. Network co-ordinator of ESCORENA MAP

 

Prof. Dr. Kenan Turgut is a full-professor in the Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Akdeniz University in Antalya, Turkey. He received his PhD degree in plant biotechnology from University of Leicester in the United Kingdom in 1994. He has been working on agronomy, biotechnology and breeding of medicinal and aromatic plants for almost 30 years. He uses plant tissue culture methods for in vitro propagation and also for breeding studies. He has introduced Stevia rebaudiana to Türkiye successfully. He has seven commercial varieties registered in the national variety list of the Ministry of Agriculture of Forestry. He has authored about seventy research articles and participitated international meetings on MAPs. He was awarded by British Council (1997) and TUBİTAK – Royal Society (1998) for scientific visiting of Leicester University, UK. He was a co-convener of the First International Medicinal and Aromatic Plants on Culinary Herbs (ISHS) in Antalya in 2007.  Also, he was co-editor of Proceedings of Acta Horticulturae, Number 826.