Anita Sønsteby

Research Professor

(+47) 406 25 739
anita.sonsteby@nibio.no

Place
Apelsvoll

Visiting address
Nylinna 226, 2849 Kapp

Abstract

Drought stress disrupts plant growth, metabolism, and reproduction, with devastating effects on crop productivity worldwide. Blackcurrant, although rich in health-promoting compounds, is highly vulnerable to water deficits, often producing fewer flowers and aborting developing fruit. Previous transcriptome studies provided only fragmented insights, and no reference genome existed for the Grossulariaceae family until now. Without such genomic tools, identifying precise stress-responsive genes and linking them to metabolite dynamics remained challenging. Based on these challenges, there is a pressing need to conduct integrated genome-scale, transcriptomic, and metabolomic studies to uncover blackcurrant’s drought response mechanisms.