UNITS

Botanical Application and Research Unit

Purpose of the Unit:
Purpose of the Unit is to conduct research and applications, to provide education, training and counselling services, to create and manage botanical gardens, to establish and manage interactive virtual botanical museums, to provide lifelong botanical education and training, and to carry out any other related exercise, in every botanical area at home and abroad in cooperation with related academic units of the University.

Activity Areas of the Unit:

To plan, design, execute, follow up, and manage botanical gardens,
In a manner intended to raise social consciousness addressing all profiles, to offer lifelong education and training works, to establish a library and archive suitable for research on plants, to constitute a herbarium, to build up a national and international electronic communication network, to prepare publications, to design, execute and manage an interactive virtual botanical museum, in botanical area and.
To carry out works on plant breeding, to develop new varieties of plants and to register and reproduce them, to develop and produce herbal drugs of international standards, to use plants in nanotechnology and biotechnology-based studies, to practise and research on developing plant-originated materials and chemicals.
To establish a plant gene bank, to do practice and research studies for planning, improving and managing plant gene resources so as to fulfil needs,
To do studies at any level on any botanical subject including funguses, algae and lichens, to release research results to public, to contribute to raising public consciousness, to practise and research so as to bring plant resources into a state where they can contribute to the national economy,
To cooperate in accord with Unit’s purpose with national or international public or private enterprises, institutions or/and non-governmental organizations engaged in activities of Unit’s interests, to carry out collaborative studies and to prepare practice and research projects, to create fund for these projects and implement the projects and/or follow up the application,
To organise education seminars for related public profiles, to arrange vocational trainings for sector employees, to hold technical courses, vocational training and certificate programmes, national and international seminars, symposiums, conferences and workshops,
To assist and support the bachelor’s and master’s students of Botany and other natural and legal persons with the intention of researching, in application fields,
To fulfil other duties in line with the Unit’s activities, particularly education and counselling services.