Soner Kazaz, a Turkish horticulturist at Ankara University, has bred local roses after six years of painstaking efforts
Soner Kazaz, soon to be 47, says that when he first started at Erzurum's Atatürk University in 1990, there was no provision for him to study and learn about ornamental plants at the Department of Horticulture.
Thirty years later, with a MSc and a PhD under his belt, Kazaz is a professor and he specialises in ornamental plant production and breeding at Ankara University’s Faculty of Agriculture. His focus is on cut flowers, such as the rose, carnation and gerbera.He and his team have created twenty new types of rose after six years of applying painstaking attention to detail. They have hybridised 7,000 roses and also sowed 30,000 seeds every year.
“In Turkey,” Kazaz says, “people have a preference for big head buds – over six centimetres, as opposed to intermediate heads, which are 3-6 centimetres, or sweet heads, which are 3 centimetres and below. So that’s what we focused on.”According to Kazaz, Turkey exports $80.4 million worth of ornamental plants. Turkey’s cut flower exports stand at $36 million dollars. The country, however, imports $2.6 million dollars worth of cut flowers and he points out that this means “every 1 in 4.
The delicate pale pink Gulberk rose is named for a combination of the names of Kazaz’s wife Gul and son Berke. “What is really important to us, of course, is to provide local rose producers with a lower-cost alternative to imported saplings that are priced at 2.33 euros each, 1.05 euros of which is royalty fees.”
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