https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/Recent content in News on KutmanLab — Plant Biotechnology, Physiology and Nutrition LabHugoenFri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/new-website/Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/new-website/Research, people, publications and news, now in one place and in two languages.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/nitrogen-2026-symposium/Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/nitrogen-2026-symposium/Burak Tunçbaş presented a poster on urea-loaded biodegradable superabsorbent polymers and nitrogen use efficiency in wheat at the 6th International Symposium on the Nitrogen Nutrition of Plants.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/nordik-teydeb-1507/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/nordik-teydeb-1507/The LAMP-based biosensor project of Nordik, a venture of two GTÜ Institute of Biotechnology PhD students that our lab helps advise, has received TÜBİTAK TEYDEB 1507 support.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2026-aleyna-valedictorian/Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2026-aleyna-valedictorian/Aleyna Su Bostan, who presented her graduation project in May, spoke as valedictorian at the graduation ceremony on 11 July 2026.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2026-msc-graduation/Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2026-msc-graduation/Ezgi Şengül, Zehra Sena Behram and Emir Taha Selman completed their MSc degrees and attended the graduation ceremony on 11 July 2026.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2026-bayrak-agronomy/Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2026-bayrak-agronomy/A paper by Ayşenur Bayrak has been published in Agronomy, another Q1 publication from our lab.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/keskin-kimya-visit/Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/keskin-kimya-visit/On June 16, 2026 our team visited Keskin Kimya with the GTÜ Technology Transfer Office to discuss joint projects in plant nutrition, agricultural R&D and biotechnological applications.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2026-tastan-horticulturae/Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2026-tastan-horticulturae/A paper by Ömer Faruk Taştan of our lab has been published in the journal Horticulturae.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/most-read-paper-physiologia-plantarum/Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/most-read-paper-physiologia-plantarum/Our paper on brown seaweed Cystoseira barbata extracts as biostimulants for wheat seedlings is among the top 10% most-read articles published in Physiologia Plantarum in 2024.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2026-tubitak-2209/Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2026-tubitak-2209/Project proposals by Elif Mutluay and Aleyna Su Bostan to the TÜBİTAK 2209 undergraduate programme were conditionally accepted.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2026-meldal-seminar/Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2026-meldal-seminar/Prof. Morten Meldal, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2022, gave a seminar at the Congress Center on 10 April 2026.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/bildiri-best-oral-presentation/Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/bildiri-best-oral-presentation/Our research assistant Rıfat Buğra Bildiri won the best oral presentation award at CSRW26 in Thessaloniki with his study on duckweed and mineral recovery from agricultural wastewater.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/lentify-tto-first-place/Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/lentify-tto-first-place/Lentify, an early-stage startup run by members of our team, won first place in the TTO Business Plan Competition and received a prize of 100,000 TL.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/women-in-science-day-2026/Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/women-in-science-day-2026/On 11 February 2026 Bahar Yıldız Kutman spoke to 300 students at Çayırova Girls’ Anatolian İmam Hatip High School, and our team ran a plant pigment extraction activity.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/teknopark-istanbul-visit/Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/teknopark-istanbul-visit/Teknopark İstanbul General Manager Prof. Dr. Abdurrahman Akyol and Board Member Dr. Mehmet Akif Özyurt visited the R&D greenhouse of the GTÜ Institute of Biotechnology.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2025-biotech4sus/Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2025-biotech4sus/Our lab took part in the 2nd International Congress on Biotech Solutions for Sustainability, hosted by GTÜ, with 16 abstracts.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2025-arikan-phd/Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2025-arikan-phd/Yağmur Arıkan Algül, who carried out her doctoral research in our lab, has been awarded her PhD.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/tarim2030-accepted/Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/tarim2030-accepted/The Migros-coordinated Tarım2030 project was accepted under the TÜBİTAK 1833 SAYEM Green Transformation call; GTÜ is a coordinating partner and our lab takes part in the work.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2025-high-school-interns/Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2025-high-school-interns/Our high school internship programme started on 24 July 2025 at the Plant Biotechnology, Physiology and Nutrition Lab of Gebze Technical University.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/eit-jumpstarter-lentify/Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/eit-jumpstarter-lentify/Lentify, the early-stage startup run by our team, ranked in the top 10 of the EIT Food category in EIT Jumpstarter 2025 and qualified for the third stage, the Local Joint Training.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2025-bildiri-defence/Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2025-bildiri-defence/Rıfat Buğra Bildiri, a member of our team, defended his master’s thesis on 7 July 2025.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/urbanfarm-2025/Mon, 26 May 2025 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/urbanfarm-2025/Başak Ayyıldız and Simay Akpınar, who did their graduation projects in our lab, represented Türkiye at the UrbanFarm 2025 final in Stockholm; Başak’s team Flourish won first place.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/icp-oes-workshop-2025/Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/icp-oes-workshop-2025/On May 24, 2025, research assistant Burak Tunçbaş from our lab trained GTÜ-BİOS club students in element analysis with ICP-OES, from acid digestion to interpreting the results.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/anadolu-group-visit-2025/Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/anadolu-group-visit-2025/On May 9, 2025, an Anadolu Group Holding delegation with representatives from Migros, Coca Cola, Anadolu Efes and Adel visited the GTÜ Institute of Biotechnology and heard about our research.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2025-trt-belgesel/Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2025-trt-belgesel/Ümit Barış Kutman, one of the principal investigators of our lab, took part as a guest expert in the water episode of Günlük Hayat Bilimi on TRT Belgesel.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/igsas-visit-2025/Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/igsas-visit-2025/On April 22, 2025, our PIs Bahar Yıldız Kutman and Ümit Barış Kutman accompanied an İGSAŞ delegation on a tour of the GTÜ Institute of Biotechnology and our R&D greenhouse.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/techxtile-challenge-2024/Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/techxtile-challenge-2024/Buse Bıyıklı and Rıfat Buğra Bildiri’s Naturalg project won second place in the Level-Up category of the 6th TechXtile Challenge Design Competition.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/tubitak-2209a-2025/Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/tubitak-2209a-2025/In the 2024/1 term of the TÜBİTAK 2209-A programme, 11 undergraduate research projects from the GTÜ Institute of Biotechnology were funded, several of them advised by our PIs.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2025-2209a-five/Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2025-2209a-five/Five of the six TÜBİTAK 2209-A applications submitted from our lab were accepted.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2024-openlab6/Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2024-openlab6/At OpenLab 6 on 21 December 2024 the lab shared elemental analysis results for mineral waters alongside the values on their labels.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/gastromasa-2024/Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/gastromasa-2024/At the Gastromasa Gastronomy Conference in Istanbul on 13-14 November 2024, our PI Bahar Yıldız Kutman discussed university and industry collaboration with Eataly Istanbul chef Claudio Chinali.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2024-philippines-minister/Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2024-philippines-minister/On September 3, 2024, the Agriculture Minister of the Philippines visited the greenhouse that our lab runs at the GTÜ Institute of Biotechnology.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2024-biotech4sus-talks/Wed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2024-biotech4sus-talks/Rıfat Buğra Bildiri, Ayşenur Bayrak and Elif Özlem Günçaldı gave oral presentations at Biotech4Sus'24.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/agriverts-tto-investment/Tue, 16 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/agriverts-tto-investment/GTÜ TTO Inc. took a 3% stake in Agriverts, the vertical farming AI start-up founded by GTÜ student Abdullah Duman and advised by our PI Ümit Barış Kutman.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2023-openlab5/Sat, 23 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2023-openlab5/We completed our Open Lab 5 event at the GTÜ Institute of Biotechnology on December 23, 2023.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/green-rd-conference-panel-2023/Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/green-rd-conference-panel-2023/Our PI Ümit Barış Kutman spoke about green R&D and start-ups in agriculture on the Green Start-Up World panel at the Green R&D Conference on 15 November 2023.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/plant-factory-istinyepark-visit/Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/plant-factory-istinyepark-visit/Together with GTÜ Rector Prof. Dr. Hacı Ali Mandal and Vice Rector Prof. Dr. Işıl Aksan Kurnaz, we visited Plant Factory’s vertical farming facility inside the İstinyePark shopping mall.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2023-bioturkiye/Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2023-bioturkiye/Seven researchers from our lab gave oral presentations at the BioTürkiye congress in Istanbul, 28 to 30 September 2023.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2023-tagem-1003-second/Fri, 23 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2023-tagem-1003-second/Our second proposal to the TÜBİTAK and TAGEM joint 1003 call was accepted at the end of a rapid revision process.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2023-teknopark-stand/Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2023-teknopark-stand/Our lab ran a stand at the launch of the GTÜ and İstanbul Teknopark cooperation protocol.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2023-plant-factory-istinyepark-opening/Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2023-plant-factory-istinyepark-opening/The Plant Factory opened at İstinye Park on 27 April 2023, and its first produce went on sale at the İstinye Park Macrocenter.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2023-bap-adek/Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2023-bap-adek/Our project to develop a soilless growing substrate from tomato waste was accepted under the ADEK programme with a total budget of about 1,116,000 TL.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/tubitak-1003-mycorrhiza-project/Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/tubitak-1003-mycorrhiza-project/Under the TÜBİTAK and TAGEM 1003 Agricultural Research Joint Call, the mycorrhiza and bacteria consortium project led by Ümit Barış Kutman was accepted for support.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2023-altundas-defence/Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2023-altundas-defence/Özgür Altundaş successfully defended his MSc thesis at the Institute of Biotechnology on 6 March 2023.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/marschner-mineral-nutrition-chapters/Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/marschner-mineral-nutrition-chapters/Ümit Barış Kutman wrote chapter 9, Mineral Nutrition and Crop Quality, and Bahar Yıldız Kutman the Nickel section of chapter 7 of the fourth edition, published in December 2022.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2022-lignonano-1004/Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2022-lignonano-1004/The LignoNANO project, coordinated by the Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM) and with our lab as a research partner, has been accepted under the 1004 Centres of Excellence Support Programme.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2022-mns-protocol/Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2022-mns-protocol/Gebze Technical University has signed a cooperation protocol with MNS University of Agriculture in Multan, Pakistan, and our lab has been invited to the partner’s online seminars.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2022-kocak-defence/Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2022-kocak-defence/Taşkın Kerem Koçak defended his thesis on 17 August 2022 in the amphitheatre on the basement floor of our new building at GTÜ.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/plant-factory-rd-facility-opening/Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/plant-factory-rd-facility-opening/The indoor vertical farming R&D facility built with Plant Factory in the greenhouse area of the GTÜ Institute of Biotechnology opened on 28 July 2022.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/vahaa-smart-garden-launch/Tue, 31 May 2022 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/vahaa-smart-garden-launch/The home soilless smart garden, first product of about a year of R&D collaboration between the GTÜ Institute of Biotechnology and the start-up Vahaa, was launched in Istanbul on 27 May 2022.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/manakin-smart-agriculture-device/Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/manakin-smart-agriculture-device/Farmomnia, a domestically produced smart agriculture automation device developed under the MANAKİN and GTÜ collaboration, was installed in the LAVFARM laboratory on campus.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/gubretas-rd-workshop-2021/Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/gubretas-rd-workshop-2021/The first GTÜ and GÜBRETAŞ R&D workshop was held at the GTÜ Congress and Culture Centre, with our PI Ümit Barış Kutman among the participants.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/agriverts-soilless-training/Mon, 23 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/agriverts-soilless-training/Agriverts, a startup founded by GTÜ students and alumni, will give soilless and vertical farming training in pilot schools with GTÜ TTO and our institute, the GTÜ Institute of Biotechnology.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/manakin-protocol/Sat, 10 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/manakin-protocol/The GTÜ Smart Agriculture Research and Application Center (ATAM) and MANAKİN Elektronik Yazılım signed a protocol on domestic smart automation systems for vertical and soilless farming.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/tubitak-3501-cystoseira/Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/tubitak-3501-cystoseira/Our project on the biostimulant potential of Cystoseira barbata seaweed extracts on wheat, led by Asst. Prof. Bahar Yıldız Kutman, was accepted for TÜBİTAK 3501 support.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/ibrahim-bodur-laboratory-opening/Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/ibrahim-bodur-laboratory-opening/Kale Group set up a Sustainable and Traceable Agriculture Test and Analysis Laboratory on the GTÜ campus for high-sensitivity element analysis of soil, fertilizer, plant and food samples.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2021-elkatmis-2209a/Sat, 08 May 2021 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2021-elkatmis-2209a/Büşra Elkatmış’s TÜBİTAK 2209-A project on the effects of nickel and cobalt nutrition on nodulation and biological nitrogen fixation in alfalfa has been accepted.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2021-mavruz-protocol/Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2021-mavruz-protocol/Our lab signed a protocol with Mavruz Tarım of Kale Grubu that runs for ten years and brings an element analysis laboratory and 1,050,000 TL worth of instruments to our university.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/lavfarm-vertical-farming-yield/Fri, 12 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/lavfarm-vertical-farming-yield/In LAVFARM, the LED-supported vertical farming lab on the GTÜ campus, 20 plant species were grown without soil or sunlight and gave ten times the yield per unit area.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2021-tuncbas-defence/Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2021-tuncbas-defence/Burak Tunçbaş defended his thesis on 26 January 2021, and we celebrated the same afternoon in the greenhouse.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2021-seminar-awards/Thu, 14 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2021-seminar-awards/Zehra Sena Behram won the best MSc seminar award and Hande Mutlu Durak won the best PhD seminar award.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/plant-factory-agreement/Tue, 15 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/plant-factory-agreement/GTÜ and Plant Factory signed a four-year R&D cooperation protocol on indoor soilless vertical farming in December 2020; our lab runs the academic side.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2020-haberturk-teke-tek/Sun, 29 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/2020-haberturk-teke-tek/Asst. Prof. Ümit Barış Kutman spoke about food production beyond Earth on the Mars episode of Teke Tek Bilim, broadcast live on Habertürk on 29 November 2020.https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/rd-greenhouse-opening/Fri, 23 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0300https://www.kutmanlab.org/news/rd-greenhouse-opening/The Institute of Biotechnology R&D Greenhouse, built under the 2019 protocol between GTÜ and GÜBRETAŞ, opened on 23 October 2020; our lab runs it.