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A Aytekin Polat
A. Aytekin POLAT is Professor of Horticulture, Mustafa Kemal University, Antakya, Hatay, Turkey. He obtained his MSc. and Ph. Degrees at Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey. Being located in the cen...visualizza altroA. Aytekin POLAT is Professor of Horticulture, Mustafa Kemal University, Antakya, Hatay, Turkey. He obtained his MSc. and Ph. Degrees at Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey. Being located in the center of the Turkey's main loquat production region, Mediterranean, he started working on loquats with his Ph D. thesis. Then, he moved to Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Agriculture Faculty, Horticulture Department, Hatay, Turkey, as founder of the Department.
He has published 140 research papers and articles of which almost 45 are on loquat propagation and production technology.
He was Convener of the 3rd International Symposium on loquat held at Hatay, Turkey in 2010. He also edited the Acta Horticulturae volume (No.887) out of this symposium, together with Jules Janick.
Currently, he leads training projects on high density orchard with dwarf rootstocks in loquats and works for the development of dwarf rootstocks farming systems.visualizza meno