Global urbanization and population growth obstruct the food waste management and cause uncontrolled accumulation of wastes. Ensuring the correct and efficient use and recycling of wastes having high protein content and generated throughout the food production and supply chain is becoming more important both in our country and all over the world. The evaluation of by-products released in the food industry is important for the development of new functional products and for greater economic rate of return on industrial scale. In this respect, bioactive peptides obtained from plant/animal wastes and rich in protein come into prominence. Bioactive peptides are also of great importance for human health because of their functional properties. In this review, functional properties of bioactive peptides obtained from protein-rich food wastes and their bioavailability mechanisms in human gastrointestinal system are discussed.

The species of the Congridae family belonging to the Anguilliformes order are known as conger eel, and are morphologically similar to the eels which are among the species of the Anguillidae family. In both family species, the dorsal and anal fins are combined with the caudal fin. It is easily distinguished from eel species by the appearance of dorsal fin rays at a closer level to the head. There are 195 species belonging to 30 genus distributed in the world seas belonging to the Congridae family. A third genus of 3 species [Ariosoma balearicum (Delaroche, 1809), Gnathophis mystax (Delaroche, 1809) and Conger conger (Linnaeus, 1758)] shows the distribution of Turkish seas. While the first two species have distributed only Turkey's Aegean and Mediterranean seas, C. conger shows the distribution of all our seas. In this review, where morphological and biological characteristics of European conger are distributed in our country, all studies carried out both in our country and abroad are examined in detail and presented together. With this compilation study, especially biological information about species is missing in our country and attention has been made to contribute to the literature.

That agricultural sector is examined closer from every point of view and is restructured in complied with the requirements of the age has to be structured comes to our face as a reality any longer accepted by every sector of the society. The various developments experienced in the world in the recent years have directly or indirectly affected agricultural sector. In the economy of Turkey, one of the countries attracting attention with its rapidly growing, there are many theoretical studies dealing with the direct or indirect contribution of agricultural sector. However, it is necessary to increase the number of the applied studies introducing the existing situation of the sector and enabling to develop the effective policies for the sector. For, it is highly important for the theories put forward in theoretical framework to be supported by empirical analyses in terms of forming effective policy suggestions. In the study, the three sub-sectors were considered such as the subsectors of cereal, legume, and fruit-vegetable and the existing situation of the sector was analyzed by moving from the macro variables. In order to identify the effects of macroeconomic variables (inflation, exchange rate, interest, monetary supply), selected in the direction of the aim of the study, panel cointegration test was utilized. Setting off from this point, when the analysis made in the study is examined for all sectors, it was identified that the variable affecting the sector the most was interest rate. When the results of panel cointegration test between interest rate and agricultural production were examined, while there was a negative directional relationship between the production of subsector “fruit vegetable” and the variable “interest” as expected, it attracts attention that there was a positive relationship between the subsector of cereal legume and interest in contrast to this.

Bu araştırma, farklı azot kaynakları ile yapılan ilave yaprak gübrelemesinin marul (Lactuca sativa L.)’da verim ve nitrat birikimi üzerine etkisini belirlemek amacı ile tarla koşullarında yürütülmüştür. Bitkisel materyal olarak bir adet yaz sıcaklarına dayanıklı kıvırcık marul (cv. ‘Bohemia F1’) çeşidi, yaprak uygulaması olarak da üre (CO(NH2)2), potasyum nitrat (KNO3) ve kalsiyum nitrat (Ca(NO3)2)’ın %0,4, %0,6 ve %0,8’lik dozları kullanılarak yaprak gübrelemesi yapılmıştır. Yaprakta toplam azot değerleri %2,20 (KNO3 %0.4) ile %3,00 (Üre %0,8) arasında değişmiştir. En yüksek nitrat birikimi 2610 mg kg-1 ile Ca(NO3)2’ın %0,8’lik uygulamasında belirlenirken, en düşük nitrat birikimi ise 2070 mg kg-1 ile sadece taban gübrelemesi (NH4NO3) yapılan parselde tespit edilmiştir. Farklı azot kaynakları ile yapılan ilave yaprak gübrelemesi sonucunda marulda en yüksek verim değerleri sırasıyla 4926 kg da-1 (Üre %0,6), 4787 kg da-1 (Üre %0,8) ve 4719 kg da-1 (Ca(NO3)2 %0,6) olarak tespit edilmiştir. Ancak, diğer girdilerin eşit olduğu araştırmada; gübre masraflarını dikkate alındığında karlılık analizinde ilk üç sıra diğer gübrelere göre düşük maliyetinden dolayı, ürenin farklı dozları ile yapılan ilave yaprak gübrelemesinde tespit edilmiştir. Araştırma sonuçlarına göre; karlılık oranları da göz önüne alındığında üre (%0,6) ile yapılan uygulamaların hem yüksek verim hem de yüksek kar elde etmek için daha uygun ve önerilebilir ilave yaprak gübrelemesi olduğu açık bir şekilde söylenebilir.

Functional foods are the foods that provide health benefits beyond the basic nutrition. Dairy products have a prominent position in the functional food market. However, market share for functional dairy products in Sri Lanka is low compared to most of the countries in the world. Awareness of consumers and attitude towards a healthy life is essential for market success of functional dairy products. Therefore, a study was conducted to investigate the status of awareness of and attitudes towards functional dairy products among consumers from Western Province of Sri Lanka. The study was conducted using a pre-tested structured questionnaire during June to November 2018, with the participation of 307 purposively selected consumers. Information on consumers’ tendency towards a healthy life style, awareness and perception on health benefits of functional foods and dairy products, confidence on different information sources etc. were recorded. SPSS statistical software package was used for the data analysis. The empirical findings showed that the consumers still concern about taste and cost rather than health when buying food products. Consumer age showed a significant (χ2=19.41, p

Development of an efficient plant regeneration protocol is essential for vegetable crop advancement by biotechnological methods. In this study, regeneration protocols of four pepper lines of different pepper types were optimized. Different protocols for organogenesis were investigated in regeneration experiments. Optimum plant regeneration was obtained in different combinations of 6-Benzylaminopurine (BAP) and Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) in organogenesis assays. In organogenesis experiment, the highest shoot development was determined as 80% from hypocotyl explant of Demre pepper in 4 mg L-1 BA+0.5 mg L-1 IAA, 80% from hypocotyl explant of Charleston pepper in 3 mg L-1 BA+0.5 mg L-1 IAA, 80% from hypocotyl explant of capia pepper in 5 mg L-1 BA+0.5 mg L-1 and 84% from hypocotyl explant of bell pepper in 5 mg L-1 BA+0.5 mg L-1 IAA. Afterward, shoots were rooted and whole plants were obtained.

Anise (Pimpinella anisum L.), is a plant which has an important place in the economic sense in medicinal and aromatic plants. Such as health, food, cosmetics are among the leading materials in the use of many sectors. The production of plant materials obtained from seeds obtained from enduring and strong lines is facilitated with the increasing number of studies. Therefore, the characteristics of the lines from which the seeds come must be demonstrated. In this study, four different anise line (Spain, Egypt, Syria, Turkey) some characteristics of by seed (figure-size, surface area, projection area, average geometric and arithmetic diameter, sphericity, thousand grain weight, average germination percentage and time) It was investigated. At the same time, the film coating was applied to the seeds and the changes in these properties of the seeds were determined. The data obtained were also examined statistically.

The study investigated the metal levels in biotic and abiotic materials from Giresun forests. While soil and water samples were selected as abiotic materials, leaves and moss were selected as biotic materials in forest. These selected materials were sampled from six stations. All samples were analyzed three times for arsenic, iron, chromium, copper, manganese, nickel, lead and zinc by ICP-OES. A logarithmic transformation was done on the data to improve normality. One way ANOVA and Duncan’s multiple range tests were performed to test the differences among metal levels of stations. The differences among metal levels in stations were statistically significant (p

The aim of the study was pasteurization of orange juces using microwave, thermosonication and traditional methods and comparing the quality properties. In this study thermosonication, microwave (540, 720, 900W), and traditional pasteurization methods were used for pasteurization of orange juice at 85°C. Pectin methlyesterase enzyme inactivation and Vitamin C, colour, total phenolic content, total carotenoid content were measured. It was determined that the processing times of orange juices pasteurized by traditional, thermosonication and microwave were 180, 120, and 60-85 s, respectively. The highest pectin methlyesterase enzyme inactivation (%95.64) was found after the microwave pasteurization at 900 W. The loss was found in the total phenolic content of orange juice was 6.15% by thermosonication process, whereas this loss was 16.11% by traditional method compared to fresh orange juice. The total colour difference was found the lowest in thermosonication application with a value of 7.98, and the highest vitamin C content (52.52 mg/100 mL) was detected in the microwave pasteurization group of 540 W.