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Guden, Birgul and Yol, Engin and Erdurmus, Cengiz and Lucas, Stuart J. and Uzun, Bulent, (2023) “Construction of a high-density genetic linkage map and QTL mapping for bioenergy-related traits in sweet sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]”, Frontiers in Plant Science, Vol.14 (SCI)
Türkölmez, Nil and Karakaya, Merve and Ekinci, Muhammed Hamit and Lucas, Stuart J. and Akkaya, Özlem and Gül Şeker, Mine and Kayıhan, Ceyhun and Özden Çiftçi, Yelda, (2022) “Determination of physiological, biochemical and molecular interactions between Fraser’s Photinia (Photinia x fraseri Dress.) and its endophytic bacterium PGB_invit”, Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture, Vol.151, No.3, 631-649 (SCI)
Qureshi, Moin and Langham, D. Ray and Lucas, Stuart J. and Uzun, Bulent and Yol, Engin, (2022) “Breeding history for shattering trait in sesame: classic to genomic approach”, Molecular Biology Reports, Vol.49, No.7, 7185-7194 (SCI)
Vural Kaymaz, Sümeyra and Ergenç, Ali F. and Aytekin, Ali and Lucas, Stuart J. and Elitaş, Meltem, (2022) “A low-cost, portable, and practical LAMP device for point-of-diagnosis in the field”, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Vol.119, No.3, 994-1003 (SCI)
Oztolan-Erol, Nihal and Helmstetter, Andrew J. and İnan, Asuman and Buggs, Richard J.A. and Lucas, Stuart J., (2021) “Unraveling genetic diversity amongst european hazelnut (corylus avellana l.) varieties in Turkey”, Frontiers in Plant Science, Vol.12 (SCI)
Pavese, Vera and Cavalet-Giorsa, Emile and Barchi, Lorenzo and Acquadro, Alberto and Marinoni, Daniela Torello and Portis, Ezio and Lucas, Stuart J. and Botta, Roberto, (2021) “Whole-genome assembly of Corylus avellana cv “Tonda Gentile delle Langhe” using linked-reads (10X Genomics)”, G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, Vol.11, No.7 (SCI)
Yol, Engin and Basak, Merve and Kızıl, Sibel and Lucas, Stuart J. and Uzun, Bulent, (2021) “A high-density SNP genetic map construction using ddRAD-Seq and mapping of capsule shattering trait in sesame”, Frontiers in Plant Science, Vol.12 (SCI)
Lucas, Stuart J. and Kahraman, Kadriye and Avşar Esmaeilialiabadi, Bihter and Buggs, Richard J.A. and Bilge, İpek, (2021) “A chromosome-scale genome assembly of European hazel (Corylus avellana L.) reveals targets for crop improvement”, Plant Journal, Vol.105, No.5, 1413-1430 (SCI)
Hussain, Babar and Lucas, Stuart J. and Öztürk, Levent and Budak, Hikmet, (2020) “Author Correction: Mapping QTLs conferring salt tolerance and micronutrient concentrations at seedling stage in wheat (Scientific Reports, (2017), 7, 1, (15662), 10.1038/s41598-017-15726-6)”, Scientific Reports, Vol.10, No.1 (SCI)
Helmstetter, Andrew J. and Öztolan Erol, Nihal and Lucas, Stuart J. and Buggs, Richard J. A., (2020) “Genetic diversity and domestication of hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) in Turkey”, Plants, People, Planet, Vol.2, No.4, 326-339 (SCI)
Avşar Esmaeilialiabadi, Bihter and Sadeghi, Sahl and Turkec, Aydın and Lucas, Stuart J., (2020) “Identification and quantitation of genetically modified (GM) ingredients in maize, rice, soybean and wheat-containing retail foods and feeds in Turkey”, Journal of Food Science and Technology, Vol.57, No.2, 787-793 (SCI)
Bharadwaj, Shiv and Lee, Kyung Eun and Dwivedi, Vivek Dhar and Yadava, Umesh and Panwar, Aleksha and Lucas, Stuart J. and Pandey, Amit and Kang, Sang Gu, (2019) “Discovery of Ganoderma lucidum triterpenoids as potential inhibitors against Dengue virus NS2B-NS3 protease”, Scientific Reports, Vol.9 (SCI)
Kahraman, Kadriye and Lucas, Stuart J., (2019) “Comparison of different annotation tools for characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of Corylus avellana cv Tombul”, BMC Genomics, Vol.20, No.1 (SCI)
Helmstetter, Andrew J. and Buggs, Richard J.A. and Lucas, Stuart J., (2019) “Repeated long-distance dispersal and convergent evolution in hazel”, Scientific Reports, Vol.9 (SCI)
Kaygusuz, Doğukan and Vural Kaymaz, Sümeyra and Aytekin, Ali Özhan and Lucas, Stuart J. and Elitaş, Meltem, (2019) “DaimonDNA: a portable, low-cost loop-mediated isothermal amplification platform for naked-eye detection of genetically modified organisms in resource-limited settings”, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Vol.141 (SCI)
Aydınoğlu, Fatma and Lucas, Stuart J., (2019) “Identification and expression profiles of putative leaf growth related microRNAs in maize (Zea mays L.) hybrid ADA313”, Gene, Vol.690, 57-67 (SCI)
Hussain, Babar and Lucas, Stuart J. and Budak, Hikmet, (2018) “CRISPR/Cas9 in plants: at play in the genome and at work for crop improvement”, Briefings in Functional Genomics, Vol.17, No.5, 319-328 (SCI)
Hussain, Babar and Lucas, Stuart J. and Öztürk, Levent and Budak, Hikmet, (2017) “Mapping QTLs conferring salt tolerance and micronutrient concentrations at seedling stage in wheat”, Scientific Reports, Vol.7 (SCI)
Sezer, Arzu and Dolar, F. Sara and Lucas, Stuart J. and Köse, Çiğdem and Gümüş, Ebru, (2017) “First report of the recently introduced, destructive powdery mildew Erysiphe corylacearum on hazelnut in Turkey”, Phytoparasitica, Vol.45, No.4, 577-581 (SCI)
Tekdal, Dilek and Lucas, Stuart J. and Çetiner, Selim, (2017) “First report about the identification and preliminary analysis of a partial sequence of dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (NADP plus) in Thermopsis turcica during floral development using degenerate primers”, Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, Vol.39, No.8 (SCI)
Lucas, Stuart J. and Salantur, Ayten and Yazar, Selami and Budak, Hikmet, (2017) “High-throughput SNP genotyping of modern and wild emmer wheat for yield and root morphology using a combined association and linkage analysis”. Published Online First http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10142-017-0563-y Functional and Integrative Genomics (SCI)
Akpınar, Bala Anı and Lucas, Stuart J. and Budak, Hikmet, (2017) “A large-scale chromosome-specific SNP discovery guideline”, Functional and Integrative Genomics, Vol.17, No.1, 97-105 (SCI)
Türkeç, Aydın and Lucas, Stuart J. and Karlık, Elif, (2016) “Monitoring the prevalence of genetically modified maize in commercial animal feeds and food products in Turkey”, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Vol.96, No.9, 3173-3179 (SCI)
Türkeç, Aydın and Lucas, Stuart J. and Karacanlı, Burçin and Baykut, Aykut and Yüksel, Hakkı, (2016) “Assessment of a direct hybridization microarray strategy for comprehensive monitoring of genetically modified organisms (GMOs)”, Food Chemistry, Vol.194, 399-409 (SCI)
Türkeç, Aydın and Lucas, Stuart J. and Karlık, Elif, (2016) “Monitoring the prevalence of genetically modified (GM) soybean in Turkish food and feed products”, Food Control, Vol.59, 766-772 (SCI)
Türkeç, Aydın and Kazan, Hande and Karacanlı, Burçin and Lucas, Stuart J., (2015) “DNA extraction techniques compared for accurate detection of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in maize food and feed products”, Journal of Food Science and Technology, Vol.52, No.8, 5164-5171 (SCI)
Akpınar, Bala Anı and Lucas, Stuart J. and Vrana, Jan and Dolezel, Jaroslav and Budak, Hikmet, (2015) “Sequencing chromosome 5D of Aegilops tauschii and comparison with its allopolyploid descendant bread wheat (Triticum aestivum)”, Plant Biotechnology Journal, Vol.13, No.6, 740-752 (SCI)
Akpınar, Bala Anı and Yüce, Meral and Lucas, Stuart J. and Vrana, Jan and Buresova, Veronika and Dolezel, Jaroslav and Budak, Hikmet, (2015) “Molecular organization and comparative analysis of chromosome 5B of the wild wheat ancestor Triticum dicoccoides”, Scientific Reports, Vol.5 (SCI)
Akpınar, Bala Anı and Magni, Federica and Yüce, Meral and Lucas, Stuart J. and Simkova, Hana and Safar, Jan and Vautrin, Sonia and Berges, Helene and Cattonaro, Federica and Dolezel, Jaroslav and Budak, Hikmet, (2015) “The physical map of wheat chromosome 5DS revealed gene duplications and small rearrangements”, BMC Genomics, Vol.16 (SCI)
Türkeç, Aydın and Kazan, Hande and Baykut, Aykut and Lucas, Stuart J., (2015) “Evalution of DNA extraction methods in order to monitor genetically modified materials in soy foodstuffs and feeds commercialised in Turkey by multiplex real-time PCR”, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Vol.95, No.2, 386-392 (SCI)
Lucas, Stuart J. and Akpınar, Bala Anı and Simkova, Hana and Kubalakova, Marie and Dolezel, Jaroslav and Budak, Hikmet, (2014) “Next-generation sequencing of flow-sorted wheat chromosome 5D reveals lineage-specific translocations and widespread gene duplications”, BMC Genomics, Vol.15 (SCI)
Lucas, Stuart J. and Baştaş, Kubilay and Budak, Hikmet, (2014) “Exploring the interaction between small RNAs and R genes during Brachypodium response to Fusarium culmorum infection”, Gene, Vol.536, No.2, 254-264 (SCI)
Yucebilgili, Kuaybe and Kantar, Melda and Lucas, Stuart J. and Budak, Hikmet, (2013) “Unique and conserved MicroRNAs in wheat chromosome 5D revealed by next-generation sequencing”, PLoS One, Vol.8, No.7 (SCI)
Lucas, Stuart J. and Akpınar, Bala Anı and Kantar, Melda and Weinstein, Zohar Bat-El and Aydınoğlu, Fatma and Safar, Jan and Simkova, Hana and Frenkel, Zeev and Korol, Abraham and Magni, Federica and Cattonaro, Federica and Vautrin, Sonia and Bellec, Arnaud and Berges, Helene and Dolezel, Jaroslav and Budak, Hikmet, (2013) “Physical mapping integrated with syntenic analysis to characterize the gene space of the long arm of wheat chromosome 1A”, PLoS One, Vol.8, No.4 (SCI)
Akpınar, Bala Anı and Lucas, Stuart J. and Budak, Hikmet, (2013) “Genomics approaches for crop improvement against abiotic stress”, Scientific World Journal (SCI)
Kantar, Melda and Akpınar, Bala Anı and Valarik, Miroslav and Lucas, Stuart J. and Dolezel, Jaroslav and Hernandez, Pilar and Budak, Hikmet, (2012) “Subgenomic analysis of microRNAs in polyploid wheat”, Functional and Integrative Genomics, Vol.12, No.3, 465-479 (SCI)
Lucas, Stuart J. and Budak, Hikmet, (2012) “Sorting the wheat from the chaff: identifying miRNAs in genomic survey sequences of triticum aestivum chromosome 1AL”, PLoS One, Vol.7, No.7 (SCI)
Lucas, Stuart J. and Simkova, Hana and Safar, Jan and Jurman, Irena and Cattonaro, Federica and Vautrin, Sonia and Bellec, Arnaud and Berges, Helene and Dolezel, Jaroslav and Budak, Hikmet, (2012) “Functional features of a single chromosome arm in wheat (1AL) determined from its structure”, Functional and Integrative Genomics, Vol.12, No.1, 173-182 (SCI)
Akpınar, Bala Anı and Avşar, Bihter and Lucas, Stuart J. and Budak, Hikmet, (2012) “Plant abiotic stress signaling”, Plant Signaling & Behavior, Vol.7, No.11, 1450-1455
Lucas, Stuart J. and Doğan, Esen and Budak, Hikmet, (2011) “TMPIT1 from wild emmer wheat: first characterisation of a stress-inducible integral membrane protein”, Gene, Vol.483, No.1-2, 22-28 (SCI)
Kantar, Melda and Lucas, Stuart J. and Budak, Hikmet, (2011) “MiRNA expression patterns of triticum dicoccoides in response to shock drought stress”, Planta, Vol.233, No.3, 471-484 (SCI)
Lucas, Stuart J. and Durmaz, Emel and Akpınar, Bala Anı and Budak, Hikmet, (2011) “The drought response displayed by a DRE-binding protein from Triticum dicoccoides”, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Vol.49, No.3, 346-351 (SCI)
Kantar, Melda and Lucas, Stuart J. and Budak, Hikmet, (2011) “Drought stress: molecular genetics and genomics approaches”, Advances in Botanical Research, Vol.57, 445-493 (SCI)

Book Section / Chapter

Küçükrecep, Aslı and Yıldız, Şükran and Tekdal, Dilek and Lucas, Stuart J., Deep learning for genomics and epi-genomics in horticulture crops improvement CRISPRized Horticulture Crops: Genome Modified Plants and Microbes in Food and Agriculture, Abd-Elsalam, Kamel A. and Ahmad, Aftab and Zhang, Baohong (eds.), Amsterdam: Elsevier, March 2024, 217-232
Şahin, Ezgi Çabuk and Aydın, Yıldız and Gilles, Tijs and Uncuoğlu, Ahu Altınkut and Lucas, Stuart J., Concepts and applications of bioinformatics for sustainable agriculture Bioinformatics in Agriculture: Next Generation Sequencing Era, Sharma, Pradeep and Yadav, Dinesh and Gaur, Rajarshi Kumar (eds.), Elsevier, January 2022, 455-489
Lucas, Stuart J., The application of nucleic acid microarrays for the detection of genetically modified organisms Testing and Analysis of GMO-Containing Foods and Feed, Mahgoub, Salah E. O. and Nollet, Leo M. L. (eds.), Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press, October 2018, 205-222
Lucas, Stuart J. and Türkeç, Aydın and Karlık, Elif, The future of GM foods or GM foods of the future: where is the biotech revolution heading? Food Toxicology, Bagchi, Debasis and Swaroop, Anand (eds.), Boca Raton, FA, USA: CRC Press, December 2016, 519-537

Papers in Conference Proceedings

Pavese, V. and Moglia, A. and Acquadro, A. and Barchi, L. and Portis, E. and Torello Marinoni, D. and Valentini, N. and Milani, A. M. and Abbà, S. and Silvestri, C. and Cavalet Giorsa, E. and Lucas, Stuart J. and Botta, R., ” Development of biotechnological tools for hazelnut breeding “, Mehlenbacher, S. A. (ed.), X International Congress on Hazelnut, International Society for Horticultural Science, October 2023, 41-47
Bilge, İpek and Kadıoğlu, G. and Cömert, A. and Lucas, Stuart J., ” Development of molecular detection methods for early warning of the hazelnut powdery mildew pathogen Erysiphe corylacearum “, Mehlenbacher, S. A. (ed.), X International Congress on Hazelnut, International Society for Horticultural Science, October 2023, 349-356
Lucas, Stuart J. and Sezer, A. and Boztepe, Ö. and Kahraman, Kadriye and Budak, Hikmet, ” Genetic analysis of powdery mildew disease in Turkish hazelnut “, Tuncer, C. and Erdoğan, V. (eds.), IX International Congress on Hazelnut, International Society for Horticultural Science, November 2018, 413-420
Yücebilgili Kurtoğlu, Kuaybe and Kantar, Melda and Lucas, Stuart J. and Budak, Hikmet, ” Dissecting microRNAs in wheat chromosome 5D using next generation sequencing data “, XXII. Plant and Animal Genome Meeting, San Diego, CA: Plant and Animal Genome, January 2014