Turkey has registered its first local and national seed mycelium mushroom varieties, Yaprak77 and Soylu77, which were developed at the Yalova Atatürk Horticultural Central Research Institute in a collaboration with South Korea. These new varieties, an oyster mushroom and an ear mushroom, were created through a crossbreeding of isolates from South Korea and Turkey. The Mushroom Research Center in Yalova, led by Dr. Mustafa Kemal Soylu, is working on the registration of more local and national mushroom varieties to reduce import dependency and increase the share of domestic and national varieties in the market.