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2019
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BACKGROUND: There are increasing demands for wild berries not only for various food and beverage products, but also in cosmetics and for extraction of various biochemical compounds. The newly funded project “WILDBERRIES” (Norwegian Research Council) will focus on predictability of yield and quality of lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis - idaea). With characteristics like taste, secondary metabolites with health properties, versatility and preservative properties there is a great potential for value creation. It is estimated that the annual crop of lingonberries in Norway is 115,000 tones, most of it non-exploited. One of the key challenges for further commercialization is access to the raw material. The Norwegian topography are challenging for the logistic around harvesting. However, the same landscape can possibly give unique qualities. The availability and quality of wild berry yields vary from year to year and from locations to location. Yields are affected by climatic conditions years in advance, during the ripening and condition and management of the forest. OBJECTIVE: WILDBERRIES aim to increase the commercial utilization of wild berries from Norwegian forests. METHODS: WILDBERRIES seek to develop tools to map areas with high yields and/or high-quality berries. Experiments at controlled climatic conditions will give new knowledge on key factors affecting flower development, ripening, yield and quality. RESULTS: Plots for phenotyping and berry collection will be established at different sites summer 2019. The existing clone collection of lingonberries will be increased, and controlled experiments will be performed from the second project year. CONCLUSIONS: Wanted outcome of the project are models for prediction of yields and quality of the berries.
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Anne Linn Hykkerud Inger Martinussen Laura Jaakola Katja Karppinen Nga Nguyet Priyanka Trivedi Päivi Aro Taina Vuorela Helena Aohla Anne Poutiainen Joffe Roberts Pupure Liva Petri Sundqvist Juha Väänänen Remes Janne Hely HäggmanAbstract
There is a large industrial demand for wax. The market is dominated by synthetic waxes. In contrast to the synthetic wax natural waxes are renewable and thus contribute to sustainalbe processes and reduced carbon emission. In Scandinavia side streams from Wild berries is an interesting candidate for wax production.
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May Bente BrurbergAbstract
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Kristian Fjørtoft John Morken Jon Fredrik Hanssen Tormod BriseidAbstract
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M. P. G. Hofman M.W. Hayward Morten Heim P. Marchand Christer Moe Rolandsen Jenny Mattisson F. Urbano M. Heurich Atle Mysterud J. Melzheimer N. Morellet U. Voigt B.L. Allen B. Gehr C. Rouco W. Ullmann Øystein Holand Nicolai Hermann Jørgensen Geir Steinheim F. Cagnacci M. Kroeschel Petra Kaczensky B. Buuveibaatar J.C. Payne I. Palmegiani K. Jerina P. Kjellander Ö. Johansson S. LaPoint R. Bayrakcismith John Durrus Linnell M. Zaccaroni M.L.S. Jorge J.E.F. Oshima A. Songhurst C. Fischer R.T. Mc Bride Jr. J.J. Thompson S. Streif R. Sandfort Christophe Bonenfant M. Drouilly M. Klapproth D. Zinner R. Yarnell A. Stronza L. Wilmott Erling Meisingset M. Thaker A.T. Vanak S. Nicoloso R. Graeber S. Saïd M.R. Boudreau A. Devlin R. Hoogesteijn J.A. May-Junior J.C. Nifong John Odden H.B. Quigley F. Tortato D.M. Parker A. Caso J. Perrine C. Tellaeche F. Zieba T. Zwijacz-Kozica C.L. Appel I. Axsom W.T. Bean B. Cristescu S. Périquet K.J. Teichman S. Karpanty A. Licoppe V. Menges K. Black T.L. Scheppers S.C. Schai-Braun F. C. Azevedo F.G. Lemos A. Payne L.H. Swanepoel B.V. Weckworth A. Berger A. Bertassoni G. McCulloch P. Šustr V. Athreya D. Bockmuhl J. Casaer A. Ekori D. Melovski C. Richard-Hansen D. van de Vyver R. Reyna-Hurtado E. Robardet N. Selva A. Sergiel M.S. Farhadinia P. Sunde R. Portas H. Ambarli R. Berzins P.M. Kappeler G.K. Mann L. Pyritz C. Bissett T. Grant R. Steinmetz L. Swedell R.J. Welch D. Armenteras O.R. Bidder T.M. González A. Rosenblatt S. Kachel N. BalkenholAbstract
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Bruno Buonomo Francesco Giannino Stephanie Saussure Ezio VenturinoAbstract
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Heidi Udnes Aamot Katherine Ann Gredvig Nielsen Shiori Koga Anne Kjersti Uhlen Ulrike Böcker Erik Lysøe Guro Brodal Ruth Dill-Macky Ingerd Skow HofgaardAbstract
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Complex communities of microorganisms influence plant and agroecosystem health and productivity. Bacteria and fungi constitute a major part of the wheat head microbiome. A microorganism’s ability to colonize or infect a wheat seed is influenced by interacting microbiome. In Norway, wheat seed lots are routinely analysed for the infestation by Fusarium head blight and seedling blight diseases, such as Fusarium and Microdochium spp., and glume blotch caused by Parastagonospora nodorum using traditional methods (plating grain on PDA, recording presence or absence of fungal colonies) The purpose is to decide if the seed quality is suitable for sowing and whether seed treatment is needed. This method is time consuming, require knowledge within fungal morphology, and do not facilitate identification to species level in all cases. Molecular methods such as sequencing could allow detection and quantification of “all” microbial DNA, only limited by the specificity of the primers. Microbial profiling (metabarcoding) can be very time and cost-effective, since a mixture of many samples can be analysed simultaneously for both fungi and bacteria, and other microbes if required. In our project “Phytobiome” we used metabarcoding to analyse microbial communities in wheat heads and verify this information with results from qPCR and plate studies for a more complete study. Around 150 spring wheat seed lots from the years 2016-2017 (including two cultivars) were selected for analysis. One of the main objectives was to find microorganisms associated with seed germination. We will present findings from this work, but also some challenges when using PCR-based sequencing methods, especially regarding Fusarium head blight fungi.