Prof. Dr. Yıldız Aka Kaçar is an Professor of the Faculty of Agriculture, Horticulture at Erciyes University. She received her undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees from the University of Cukurova, Turkey, and completed her postdoctoral degree at California State University, Los Angeles. She serves as a member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture at the University of Erciyes, a member of the Allocation Evaluation Committee of ArGePark, the Chairperson of the Birim Quality Committee, etc. Her research areas include agriculture, garden plants, fruit breeding and breeding, biotechnology and genetics, plant tissue culture, and plant molecular genetics.