**3. Eggplant androgenesis studies conducted in Turkey**

When the public and private sectors' vegetable breeding studies in Turkey were examined, it can be seen that the use of biotechnology, and in particular the use of DH technology based on embryo formation from male gamete cells, namely, androgenesis, is not going far back. The first DH study in vegetables was made in the 1980s in pepper, and then, studies on other species followed. The haploidy studies in eggplant consist of anther, isolated microspore or shed-microspore culture applications in the world. The first haploidization study in eggplant began in 1991 in Turkey with Karakullukçu's [19] anther culture study. This was followed by other anther culture [20, 35–46], isolated microspore culture [32, 34, 47] and shedmicrospore culture [19] studies. Although the number of studies on this subject is small at the beginning, the efforts to obtain DH plants through anther culture have been accelerated in recent years thanks to the increase in the state-supported projects and the engagement of private sector. Androgenesis studies on eggplant have a history of 45 years worldwide and 30 years in Turkey.
