Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Turkey, Akos Mathe,Kenan Turgut, Editör, Springer, London/Berlin , Zürich, ss.131-167, 2023
Turkey (Türkiye) is one of the top 20 countries in the world in the production and trade of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs). Currently, it is one of the main producers of the MAPs such as anise, black cumin, cumin, coriander, fennel, fenugreek, laurel, lavender, mahaleb, oil-bearing rose, oregano, poppy, sage, sumac and tea. Turkey’s rich biodiversity is under threat, as many of the valuable species are still wild collected from nature. For this reason, it has gained importance to domesticate and cultivate the species that are gathered from nature intensively, and the Turkish state provides support for MAP cultivation on the condition that good agricultural practices (GAP) are applied. As a result, Anatolian sage, blessed thistle, buckwheat, blueberry, caper, chamomile, corn mint, echinacea, garden mint, laurel, lavender, lemon balm, mountain tea, nettle, Passiflora (passion flowers), peppermint, rosehip, rosemary, salep orchids, sandy everlasting, savory, stevia, St. John’s Wort, tarragon, thyme, quinoa, and yarrow began to be produced in the large-scale agricultural fields. There seems to be a need for increasing the cultivated area of bulbous, tuberous and rhizome plants, such as gentian, gypsophila, licorice, madder, snowdrop and summer snowdrop, whose generations are in danger, should also be widespread. In Turkey, especially in the first quarter of the twenty-first century, there has been a remarkable increase in both the breeding studies and the release of registered varieties. In the national list of registered and licensed varieties published by the Seed Registration and Certification Centre (TTSM), out of a total of 84 registered and permitted cultivars, 43 were registered by Agricultural Research Institutes, 35 by the private seed sector, and 6 by universities. Considerable activities are also carried out on in vitro micropropagation and in vitro secondary metabolite production of MAPs in Turkey.