Dr. Irfan Ozturk
Trakya Agricultural Research Institute
Turkey
Editor in Chief
Journal of International Scientific Publications: Agriculture & Food
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ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1858-0790
Scopus
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56940215700
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Biography
Dr. Irfan Ozturk is a wheat and barley breeder with more than 29 years of experience at the Trakya Agricultural Research Institute in Edirne, Turkey. He has led the institute’s wheat and barley breeding program as project leader since 1997. Over the past 29 years, he has developed and officially registered numerous bread wheat and barley cultivars that are widely grown in the Trakya region and across Turkey, with varieties from his program planted on more than 50 percent of the wheat and barley production area in Trakya.
Dr. Ozturk has led and contributed to multiple research projects supported by TAGEM, TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), and other funding bodies. His work spans planning and conducting breeding trials, advancing new lines and cultivars, and improving resistance to key pests and diseases. To date, he has developed and registered 17 bread wheat cultivars and 11 barley cultivars. In recognition of his contributions to Turkish agriculture, he received an award from the Minister of Agriculture in 2013. He has also participated in specialized training courses and numerous national and international agricultural congresses and professional activities.
He has participated in the 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 editions of the Agriculture and Food conference in Elenite/Burgas, and has authored 17 papers in the Agriculture and Food journal, focusing on wheat and barley genotypes, yield and quality performance under rainfed and drought stress conditions, and the relationships among agro-physiological traits, biomass, root and seedling parameters, and biotic stress responses across different environments.