HEKTAŞ TOHUM
ABOUT US

HEKTAŞ, one of OYAK Kimya's agricultural companies and the leader of the plant protection sector, acquired Akça Seed in 2019 in order to accelerate its activities in the field of seeds, and the name of the company has been updated as Areo Seed in 2020. As of 2024, Areo Seed continues its activities under the name of HEKTAŞ Seed in order to build a bridge to the future with the strong roots of HEKTAŞ and become a global player. HEKTAŞ Seed carries out breeding studies on tomato, pepper, cucumber, eggplant, melon, watermelon, wheat, barley, corn, sunflower and cotton seeds using the latest technologies in the world. HEKTAŞ Seed operates to develop hybrid seeds in 24410 m² greenhouse area, 1260 m² nursery, 1050 m² Seed Technologies Center, 2500 m² open field and 1000 m² service area located in Akdeniz University Technopolis.

The first phase of the "Traceable Safe Food Platform" project, initiated by HEKTAŞ, has been successfully completed by transforming the 5-decare greenhouse area at HEKTAŞ Tohum's facilities in Antalya Technopark at Akdeniz University into a smart greenhouse. The project is expanding with 30 decares of business greenhouses and farmers' greenhouses in HEKTAŞ F.A.R.M. in Orhangazi, Bursa.

The biotechnology laboratory enables the identification of genetic diversity through marker-assisted selection (MAS) techniques and the early selection of superior plant lines. Thanks to these DNA-based molecular approaches, classical breeding processes are becoming more efficient in terms of both time and resources.

Within the scope of the Tissue Culture Laboratory, modern tissue culture methods such as anther culture, ovulary culture, irradiated pollen techniques and embryo rescue, which play an important role in obtaining pure lines from plants quickly, are used. These techniques enable homozygous pure lines to be obtained from plants in a short period of time, significantly shortening the line purification time, which is the most time-consuming step in classical breeding.

In addition, CRISPR/Cas-based gene regulation studies are also carried out within the Seed Technologies Center. With this innovative biotechnological method, it is aimed to develop more resistant, productive and high quality varieties by making precise arrangements on gene regions that affect the agronomic performance of plants.

Another component that provides support for breeding activities is the conditioning chambers in the Seed Technologies Center, which enable rapid breeding. In units with these controlled environmental conditions, temperature, humidity and CO₂ levels are set at optimum levels, making it possible to achieve multiple generations throughout the year. Thus, breeding cycles in vegetables and industrial plants can be accelerated and registration processes of new varieties can be completed in a shorter time.

HEKTAŞ Seed has R&D projects in vegetable and industrial plant groups, carried out collectively by the Seed Technologies Center and breeding departments.

PRODUCTS THAT
MAKE A DIFFERENCE

As the ultimate goal; in addition to these studies, considering the rapidly increasing world population and the end consumer, increasing the average vitamin values per fruit, flavor, smell, shape and aroma criteria, high fruit quality, multiple disease resistance on the producer side, high efficiency, fruit criteria suitable for target market demands have been determined as priority in breeding studies and our studies are progressing in this direction.

National Agriculture, Independent Economy

Based on the words of the Great Leader Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, "The basis of the national economy is agriculture.", we are working for the present and future of our country in the agricultural sector, which is vital for economic independence. With our motto of domestic seed, domestic R&D, we always aim to offer the best for independent Turkish Agriculture and economy.

Contact

  • AREO TOHUMCULUK ARGE SAN. VE DIŞ TİC A.Ş.
  • Pınarbaşı Mahallesi, Dumlupınar Bulvarı, No:812, Akdeniz University Campus, Konyaaltı / Antalya
  • 0262 751 14 12 / 2511
  • [email protected]

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