- Selcuk Journal of Agriculture and Food Sciences
- Vol: 32 Issue: 3
- A Historical Review On Turkish Viticulture; The Importance of Viticulture Genetic Resources
A Historical Review On Turkish Viticulture; The Importance of Viticulture Genetic Resources
Authors : Hayri Sağlam, Özlem Çalkan Sağlam
Pages : 601-606
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Publication Date : 2018-12-28
Article Type : Research Article
Abstract :The vineyard culture and also the historical background of Turkey has an importance in the world. Turkey is one of the motherland of grape. Because of the grape growing for hundred years in Anatolia, a large grape variation was obtained in this area. It is determined that, there are more than 1400 grape varieties were growing in Turkey until very recently. And all of them are genetic resources of our country. It is difficult to say that we are doing the necessary protection studies. Because of this, richness of grape variety is getting lost day by day. On the other hand, our grape biodiversity has an important value in the other countries hands. Our major grape varieties are spread all over the world without our control. However, many of our grape varieties remained unclaimed because of our disclaimed. An important sample of this is Thompson Seedless. In fact, the true name of Thompson Seedless is ‘Sultani Çekirdeksiz’ and it is our genetic resource. But, it is known as ‘Thompson Seedless’ by the entire world. The actual situation of our grape biodiversity has been revised after a short brief of grape history. At the end of the article, we made some recommendation for protecting our grape biodiversity.Keywords : Üzüm, Üzüm ve tarihçe, Biyoçeşitlilik, Genetik kaynak, Bağcılık