Levent Öztürk
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
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Education
PhD (2001) in Plant Nutrition and Physiology, Cukurova University, Faculty of Agriculture, Turkey.
Areas of Interest
plant biology, plant physiology, plant nutrition, agriculture, food security, nutrition security, biofortification, climate change, agronomy, crop science
Article
Hasanaliyeva, Gultekin and Giannakopoulou, Ourania and Wang, Juan and Barański, Marcin and Sufar, Enas Khalid and Knutt, Daryl and Gilroy, Jenny and Shotton, Peter and Leifert, Halima and Średnicka-Tober, Dominika and Çakmak, İsmail and Öztürk, Levent and Zhao, Bingqiang and Iversen, Per Ole and Volakakis, Nikolaos and Bilsborrow, Paul and Leifert, Carlo and Rempelos, Leonidas (2025) "Effects of climatic conditions and agronomic practices on health, tuber yield, and mineral composition of two contrasting potato varieties developed for high and low input production systems", Agronomy, Vol.15, No.1 (SCI)
Wilkinson, Andrew and Wilkinson, John N. and Shotton, Peter and Sufar, Enas Khalid and Hasanaliyeva, Gultekin and Volakakis, Nikolaos and Çakmak, İsmail and Öztürk, Levent and Bilsborrow, Paul and Iversen, Per Ole and Wilcockson, Steve and Rempelos, Leonidas and Leifert, Carlo (2023) "Improving crop health, performance, and quality in organic spring wheat production: the need to understand interactions between pedoclimatic conditions, variety, and fertilization", Agronomy, Vol.13, No.9 (SCI)
Rempelos, Leonidas and Barański, Marcin and Sufar, Enas Khalid and Gilroy, Jenny and Shotton, Peter and Leifert, Halima and Średnicka-Tober, Dominika and Hasanaliyeva, Gultekin and Rosa, Eduardo A.S. and Hajslova, Jana and Schulzova, Vera and Çakmak, İsmail and Öztürk, Levent and Brandt, Kirsten and Seal, Chris and Wang, Juan and Schmidt, Christoph and Leifert, Carlo (2023) "Effect of climatic conditions, and agronomic practices used in organic and conventional crop production on yield and nutritional composition parameters in potato, cabbage, lettuce and onion; results from the long-term NFSC-trials", Agronomy, Vol.13, No.5 (SCI)
Yazıcı, Mustafa Atilla and Asif, Muhammad and Tutuş, Yusuf and Ortas, Ibrahim and Öztürk, Levent and Lambers, Hans and Çakmak, İsmail (2021) "Reduced root mycorrhizal colonization as affected by phosphorus fertilization is responsible for high cadmium accumulation in wheat", Plant and Soil, Vol.468, No.1-2, 19-35 (SCI)
Rehman, Raheela and Asif, Muhammad and Çakmak, İsmail and Öztürk, Levent (2021) "Differences in uptake and translocation of foliar‐applied Zn in maize and wheat", Plant and Soil, Vol.462, No.1-2, 235-244 (SCI)
Barański, Marcin and Średnicka-Tober, Dominika and Rempelos, Leonidas and Hasanaliyeva, Gultakin and Gromadzka-Ostrowska, Joanna and Skwarło-Sońta, Krystyna and Królikowski, Tomasz and Rembiałkowska, Ewa and Hajslova, Jana and Schulzova, Vera and Çakmak, İsmail and Öztürk, Levent and Hallmann, Ewelina and Seal, Chris and Iversen, Per Ole and Vigar, Vanessa and Leifert, Carlo (2021) "Feed composition differences resulting from organic and conventional farming practices affect physiological parameters in wistar rats-results from a factorial, two-generation dietary intervention trial", Nutrients, Vol.13, No.2 (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)
Rempelos, Leonidas and Almuayrifi, Mohammed Saleh Bady and Baranski, Marcin and Tetard-Jones, Catherine and Barkla, Bronwyn and Çakmak, İsmail and Öztürk, Levent and Cooper, Julia and Volakakis, Nikolaos and Hall, Gavin and Zhao, Bingqiang and Rose, Terry J. and Wang, Juan and Kalee, Hassan A. and Sufar, Enas and Hasanalieya, Gultakin and Bilsborrow, Paul and Leifert, Carlo (2020) "The effect of agronomic factors on crop health and performance of winter wheat varieties bred for the conventional and the low input farming sector", Field Crops Research, Vol.254 (SCI)
Asif, Muhammad and Zora, Seray and Ceylan Şen, Yasemin and Rehman, Raheela and Öztürk, Levent (2020) "Nitrogen supply in combination of nitrate and ammonium enhances harnessing of elevated atmospheric CO2 through improved nitrogen and carbon metabolism in wheat
(Triticum aestivum)", Crop and Pasture Science, Vol.71, No.2, 101-112 (SCI)
Rehman, Abdul and Farooq, Muhammad and Asif, Muhammad and Öztürk, Levent (2019) "Supra-optimal growth temperature exacerbates adverse effects of low Zn supply in wheat", Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Vol.182, No.4, 656-666 (SCI)
Asif, Muhammad and Tunç, Cevza Esin and Yazıcı, Mustafa Atilla and Tutuş, Yusuf and Rehman, Raheela and Rehman, Abdul and Öztürk, Levent (2019) "Effect of predicted climate change on growth and yield performance of wheat under varied nitrogen and zinc supply", Plant and Soil, Vol.434, No.1-2, 231-244 (SCI)
Rempelos, Leonidas and Almuayrifi, Abujawad M. and Baranski, Marcin and Tetard-Jones, Catherine and Eyre, Mick and Shotton, Peter and Çakmak, İsmail and Öztürk, Levent and Cooper, Julia and Volakakis, Nikolaos and Schmidt, Christoph and Sufar, Enas and Wang, Juan and Wilkinson, Andrew and Rosa, Eduardo A. S. and Zhao, Bingqiang and Rose, Terry J. and Leifert, Carlo and Bilsborrow, Paul (2018) "Effects of agronomic management and climate on leaf phenolic profiles, disease severity, and grain yield in organic and conventional wheat production systems", Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol.66, No.40, 10369-10379 (SCI)
Candan, Nilgün and Çakmak, İsmail and Öztürk, Levent (2018) "Zinc-biofortified seeds improved seedling growth under zinc deficiency and drought stress in durum wheat", Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Vol.181, No.3, 388-395 (SCI)
Rehman, Abdul and Farooq, Muhammad and Naveed, Muhammad and Öztürk, Levent and Nawaz, Ahmad (2018) "Pseudomonas-aided zinc application improves the productivity and biofortification of bread wheat", Crop and Pasture Science, Vol.69, No.7, 659-672 (SCI)
Asif, Muhammad and Tunç, Cevza Esin and Öztürk, Levent (2018) "Changes in yield attributes and K allocation in wheat as affected by K deficiency and elevated CO2", Plant and Soil, Vol.426, No.1-2, 153-162 (SCI)
Hacısalihoğlu, Gökhan and Burton, Amy L. and Gustin, Jeffery L. and Eker, Selim and Asıklı, Safiye and Heybet, Elif Haklı and Öztürk, Levent and Çakmak, İsmail and Yazıcı, Mustafa Atilla and Burkey, Kent O. and Orf, James and Settles, Mark A. (2018) "Quantitative trait loci associated with soybean seed weight and composition under different phosphorus levels", Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, Vol.60, No.3, 232-241 (SCI)
Rehman, Abdul and Farooq, Muhammad and Öztürk, Levent and Asif, Muhammad and Siddique, Kadambot H. M. (2018) "Zinc nutrition in wheat-based cropping systems", Plant and Soil (SI), Vol.422, No.1-2, 283-315 (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)
Asif, Muhammad and Yılmaz, Özlem and Öztürk, Levent (2017) "Potassium deficiency impedes elevated carbon dioxide-induced biomass enhancement in well watered or drought-stressed bread wheat", Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Vol.180, No.4, 474-481 (SCI)
Çakmak, İsmail and Prom-u-thai, C. and Guilherme, L. R. G. and Rashid, A. and Hora, K. H. and Yazıcı, Mustafa Atilla and Savaşlı, E. and Kalaycı, M. and Tutuş, Yusuf and Phuphong, P. and Rizwan, M. and Martins, F. A. D. and Dinali, G. S. and Öztürk, Levent (2017) "Iodine biofortification of wheat, rice and maize through fertilizer strategy". Published Online First http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-017-3295-9
Yılmaz, Özlem and Kahraman, Kadriye and Özgür, Rengin and Uzilday, Barış and Türkan, İsmail and Öztürk, Levent (2017) "Growth performance and antioxidative response in bread and durum wheat plants grown with varied potassium treatments under ambient and elevated carbon dioxide", Environmental and Experimental Botany, Vol.137, 26-35 (SCI)
Asif, Muhammad and Yılmaz, Özlem and Öztürk, Levent (2017) "Elevated carbon dioxide ameliorates the effect of Zn deficiency and terminal drought on wheat grain yield but compromises nutritional quality", Plant and Soil, Vol.411, No.1-2, 57-67 (CPCI-S, SCI)
Yılmaz, Özlem and Altıntaş, Gamze and Çakmak, İsmail and Öztürk, Levent (2017) "Differences in grain zinc are not correlated with root uptake and grain translocation of zinc in wild emmer and durum wheat genotypes", Plant and Soil, Vol.411, No.1-2, 69-79 (SCI)
Yılmaz, Özlem and Kahraman, Kadriye and Öztürk, Levent (2016) "Elevated carbon dioxide exacerbates adverse effects of Mg deficiency in durum wheat". Published Online First http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-2979-x
Ova, Emir Ali and Kutman, Ümit Barış and Öztürk, Levent and Çakmak, İsmail (2015) "High phosphorus supply reduced zinc concentration of wheat in native soil but not in autoclaved soil or nutrient solution", Plant and Soil, Vol.393, No.1-2, 147-162 (SCI)
Açıksöz Özden, Seher Bahar and Öztürk, Levent and Yazıcı, Mustafa Atilla and Çakmak, İsmail (2014) "Inclusion of urea in a (59)FeEDTA solution stimulated leaf penetration and translocation of Fe-59 within wheat plants", Physiologia Plantarum (SI), Vol.151, No.3, 348-357 (SCI)
Bilsborrow, Paul and Cooper, Julia and Tetard-Jones, Catherine and Srednicka-Tober, Dominika and Baraniski, Marcin and Eyre, Mick and Schmidt, Christoph and Shotton, Peter and Volakakis, Nikolaos and Çakmak, İsmail and Öztürk, Levent and Leifert, Carlo and Wilcockson, Steve (2013) "The effect of organic and conventional management on the yield and quality of wheat grown in a long-term field trial", European Journal of Agronomy, Vol.51, 71-80 (SCI)
Palmer, Mike W. and Cooper, Julia and Tetard-Jones, Catherine and Srednicka-Tober, Dominika and Baranski, Marcin and Eyre, Mick and Shotton, Peter N. and Volakakis, Nikolaos and Çakmak, İsmail and Öztürk, Levent and Leifert, Carlo and Wilcockson, Steve J. and Bilsborrow, Paul E. (2013) "The influence of organic and conventional fertilisation and crop protection practices, preceding crop, harvest year and weather conditions on yield and quality of potato (Solanum tuberosum) in a long-term management trial", European Journal of Agronomy, Vol.49, 83-92 (SCI)
Srednicka-Tober, Dominika and Baranski, Marcin and Gromadzka-Ostrowska, Joanna and Skwarlo-Sonta, Krystyna and Rembialkowska, Ewa and Hajslova, Jana and Schulzova, Vera and Çakmak, İsmail and Öztürk, Levent and Krolikowski, Tomasz and Wisniewska, Katarzyna and Hallmann, Ewelina and Baca, Elzbieta and Eyre, Mick and Steinshamn, Havard and Jordon, Teresa and Leifert, Carlo (2013) "Effect of crop protection and fertilization regimes used in organic and conventional production systems on feed composition and physiological parameters in rats", Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol.61, No.5, 1017-1029 (SCI)
Açıksöz, Seher Bahar and Yazıcı, Mustafa Atilla and Öztürk, Levent and Çakmak, İsmail (2011) "Biofortification of wheat with iron through soil and foliar application of nitrogen and iron fertilizers", Plant and Soil (SI), Vol.349, No.1-2, 215-225 (SCI)
Durmaz, Emel and Çoruh, Ceyda and Dinler, Gizem and Grusak, Micheal A. and Peleg, Zvika and Saranga, Yashua and Fahima, Tzion and Yazıcı, Mustafa Atilla and Öztürk, Levent and Çakmak, İsmail and Budak, Hikmet (2011) "Expression and cellular localization of ZIP1 transporter under zinc deficiency in wild emmer wheat", Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, Vol.29, No.3, 582-596 (SCI)
Açıksöz, Seher Bahar and Öztürk, Levent and Gökmen, Özay Özgür and Roemheld, Volker and Çakmak, İsmail (2011) "Effect of nitrogen on root release of phytosiderophores and root uptake of Fe(III)-phytosiderophore in Fe-deficient wheat plants", Physiologia Plantarum, Vol.142, No.3, 287-296 (SCI)
Cooper, Julia and Sanderson, Roy and Çakmak, İsmail and Öztürk, Levent and Shotton, Peter and Carmichael, Andrew and Haghighi, Reza Sadrabadi and Tetard-Jones, Catherine and Volakakis, Nikos and Eyre, Mick and Leifert, Carlo (2011) "Effect of organic and conventional crop rotation, fertilization, and crop protection practices on metal contents in wheat (triticum aestivum)", Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol.59, No.9, 4715-4724 (SCI)
Kabaha, Khaled and Taralp, Alpay and Çakmak, İsmail and Öztürk, Levent (2011) "Accelerated hydrolysis method to estimate the amino acid content of wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) flour using microwave irradiation", Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (Sp. Iss. SI), Vol.59, No.7, 2958-2965 (SCI)
Gomez Becerra, Hugo Ferney and Erdem, H. and Yazıcı, A. and Tutuş, Yusuf and Torun, B. and Öztürk, Levent and Çakmak, İsmail (2010) "Grain concentrations of protein and mineral nutrients in a large collection of spelt wheat grown under different environments", Journal of Cereal Science, Vol.52, No.3, 342-349 (SCI)
Çakmak, İsmail and Kalaycı, M. and Kaya, Y. and Torun, A. A. and Aydın, N. and Wang, Y. and Arısoy, Z. and Erdem, H. and Yazıcı, A. and Gökmen, O. and Öztürk, Levent and Horst, W. J. (2010) "Biofortification and localization of zinc in wheat grain", Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol.58, No.16, 9092-9102 (SCI)
Chatzav, Merav and Peleg, Zvi and Öztürk, Levent and Yazıcı, Mustafa Atilla and Fahima, Tzion and Çakmak, İsmail and Saranga, Yehoshua (2010) "Genetic diversity for grain nutrients in wild emmer wheat: potential for wheat improvement", Annals of Botany, Vol.105, No.7, 1211-1220 (SCI)
Gomez Becerra, Hugo Ferney and Yazıcı, Mustafa Atilla and Öztürk, Levent and Budak, Hikmet and Peleg, Zvi and Morgounov, Alexey and Fahima, Tzion and Saranga, Yehoshua and Çakmak, İsmail (2010) "Genetic variation and environmental stability of grain mineral nutrient concentrations in Triticum dicoccoides under five environments", Euphytica, Vol.171, No.1, 39-52 (SCI)
Çakmak, İsmail and Yazıcı, M. Atilla and Tutuş, Yusuf and Öztürk, Levent (2009) "Glyphosate reduced seed and leaf concentrations of calcium, manganese, magnesium, and iron in non-glyphosate resistant soybean", European Journal of Agronomy, Vol.31, No.3 Sp. , 114-119 (SCI)
Su, Y. Senem and Öztürk, Levent and Çakmak, İsmail and Budak, Hikmet (2009) "Turfgrass species response exposed to increasing rates of glyphosate application", European Journal of Agronomy, Vol.31, No.3 Sp. , 120-125 (SCI)
Peleg, Zvi and Çakmak, İsmail and Öztürk, Levent and Yazıcı, M. Atilla and Jun, Yan and Budak, Hikmet and Korol, Abraham B. and Fahima, Tzion and Saranga, Yehoshua (2009) "Quantitative trait loci conferring grain mineral nutrient concentrations in durum wheat 3 wild emmer wheat RIL population", Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Vol.119, No.2, 353-369 (SCI)
Cebeci, Özge and Köktürk, B. and Ergen, Neslihan and Öztürk, Levent and Çakmak, İsmail and Budak, Hikmet (2008) "Differential expression of wheat transcriptomes in response to varying cadmium concentrations", Biologia Plantarum, Vol.52, No.4, 703-708 (SCI)
Peleg, Zvi and Saranga, Yehoshua and Yazıcı, Mustafa Atilla and Fahima, Tzion and Öztürk, Levent and Çakmak, İsmail (2008) "Grain zinc, iron and protein concentrations and zinc-efficiency in wild emmer wheat under contrasting irrigation regimes", Plant and Soil, Vol.306, No.1-2, 57-67 (SCI)
Öztürk, Levent and Yazıcı, Mustafa Atilla and Eker, Selim and Gökmen, Özay Özgür and Römheld, Volker and Çakmak, İsmail (2007) "Glyphosate inhibition of ferric reductase activity in iron deficient sunflower roots", New Phytologist, Vol.177, No.issue , 899-906 (SCI)
Morgounov, Alexei and Gómez-Becerra, Hugo Ferney and Abugalieva, Aigul and Dzhunusova, Mira and Yessimbekova, M. and Muminjanov, Hafiz and Zelenskiy, Yu and Öztürk, Levent and Çakmak, İsmail (2007) "Iron and zinc grain density in common wheat grown in Central Asia", Euphytica, Vol.155, No.1-2, 193-203 (SCI)
Distelfeld, Assaf and Çakmak, İsmail and Peleg, Zvi and Öztürk, Levent and Yazıcı, Mustafa Atilla and Budak, Hikmet and Saranga, Yehoshua and Fahima, Tzion (2007) "Multiple QTL-effects of wheat Gpc-B1 locus on grain protein and micronutrient concentrations", Physiologia plantarum, Vol.129, No.3, 635-643 (SCI)
Özkutlu, Faruk and Öztürk, Levent and Erdem, Halil and McLaughlin, Mike and Çakmak, İsmail (2007) "Leaf-applied sodium chloride promotes cadmium accumulation in durum wheat grain", Plant and soil, Vol.290, No.1-2, 323-331 (SCI)
Aktaş, Hakan and Abak, Kazım and Öztürk, Levent and Çakmak, İsmail (2006) "The effect of zinc on growth and shoot concentrations of sodium and potassium in pepper plants under salinity stress", Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry, Vol.30, No.6, 407-412 (NA)
Eker, Selim and Öztürk, Levent and Yazıcı, Mustafa Atilla and Erenoğlu, Bülent and Romheld, Volker and Çakmak, İsmail (2006) "Foliar-applied glyphosate substantially reduced uptake and transport of iron and manganese in sunflower (helianthus annuus L.) plants", Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, Vol.54, No.26, 10019-10025 (SCI)
Eker, Selim and Cömertpay, Gönül and Konuşkan, Ömer and Ülger, Ahmet Can and Öztürk, Levent and Çakmak, İsmail (2006) "Effect of salinity stress on dry matter production and ion accumulation in hybrid maize varieties", Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry, Vol.30, No.5, 365-373 (NA)
Öztürk, Levent and Yazıcı, Mustafa Atilla and Yücel, Cemal and Torun, Ayfer and Çekiç, Cemal and Bağcı, Ahmet and Özkan, Hakan and Braun, Hans-Joachim and Sayers, Zehra and Çakmak, İsmail (2006) "Concentration and localization of zinc during seed development and germination in wheat", Physiologia plantarum, Vol.128, No.1, 144-152 (SCI)
Babourina, Olga and Çakmak, İsmail and Öztürk, Levent and Rengel, Zed (2006) "Reactive oxygen species production in wheat roots is not linked with changes in H+ fluxes during acidic and aluminium stresses", Plant Signaling & Behavior, Vol.1, No.2, 70-75 (SCI)
Alirzayeva, Esmira G. and Shirvani, Tamilla S. and Yazıcı, Mustafa Atilla and Alverdiyeva, Sevda M. and Shukurov, Eldar S. and Öztürk, Levent and Ali-zade, Valida M. and Çakmak, İsmail (2006) "Heavy metal accumulation in Artemisia and foliaceous lichen species from the Azerbaijan flora", Forest Snow and Landscape Research, Vol.80, No.3, 339-348 (SCI)
Book Section / Chapter
Öztürk, Levent, "Mineral beslenme (Bölüm 5)", Bitki Fizyolojisi ve Gelişimi, Taiz, Lincoln and Zeiger, Eduardo and Moller, Ian Max and Murphy, Angus (eds.), Ankara, Turkey: Palme Yayınevi, January 2019, 119-142
Wakeel, Abdul and Farooq, Muhammad and Bashir, Khurram and Öztürk, Levent, "Micronutrient malnutrition and biofortification: recent advances and future perspectives", Plant Micronutrient Use Efficiency: Molecular and Genomic Perspectives in Crop Plants, Hossain, Mohammad Anwar and Kamiya, Takehiro and Burritt, David J. and Tran, Lam-Son Phan and Fujiwara, Toru (eds.), UK, USA: Elsevier, April 2018, 225-243
Öztürk, Levent, "Bitki besleme ve topraklar", Raven Bitki Biyolojisi, Türkan, İsmail (ed.), Ankara: Palme Yayıncılık 2016, 683-707
Öztürk, Levent, "Bitkide su ve çözür maddelerin hareketi", Raven Bitki Biyolojisi, Türkan, İsmail (ed.), Ankara: Palme Yayıncılık 2016, 708-727
Publications Prior to SU
Ozturk, L., Karanlik, S., Ozkutlu, F., Cakmak, I., Kochian, L.V. 2003. Shoot biomass and zinc/cadmium uptake for hyperaccumulator and non-accumulator Thlaspi species in response to growth on a zinc-deficient calcareous soil. Plant Science 164, 1095-1101. Ozturk, L., Eker, S., Ozkutlu, F., Cakmak, I. 2003. Effect of Cadmium on Growth and Concentration of Cadmium, Ascorbic Acid and Sulphydryl Groups in Durum Wheat Cultivars. Turk. J. Agric. For. 27, 161-168. *Hacisalihoglu, G., *Ozturk, L., Cakmak, I., Welch, R., M., Kochian, L., V. 2004. Genotypic Variation in Common Bean in Response to Zinc Deficiency in Calcarous Soil. Plant and Soil 259, 71-83 (*: These authors contributed equally to this work as first co-authors). Ozturk L, Eker S, Torun B, Cakmak I. 2005. Variation in phosphorus efficiency among 73 bread and durum wheat genotypes grown in a phosphorus-deficient calcareous soil. Plant and Soil 269, 69-80. Babourina O, Ozturk L, Cakmak I, Rengel Z. 2006. Reactive oxygen species production in wheat roots is not linked with changes in H+ fluxes during acidic and aluminium stresses. Plant Signaling and Behavior 1, 70-75.