creators_name: Karjalainen, Reijo
creators_name: Stewart, Derek
creators_name: McDougall, Gordon J.
creators_name: Hilz, Hauke
creators_name: Anttonen, Mikko
creators_name: Saviranta, Niina
creators_name: Mattila, Pirjo
creators_name: Törrönen, Riitta
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2009-06-04
lastmod: 2009-08-20 14:43:14
metadata_visibility: show
title: Understanding health-promoting bioactive compounds in blackcurrants and their agronomic improvement
ispublished: pub
subjects: 2security
full_text_status: public
keywords: polyphenolics, Ribes, neuroprotection, breeding, farming methods
abstract: The potential health benefits of black currant based products may be greatly increased if
berries from cultivars with high contents of the health-promoting compounds are used as raw materials. The high variability in the levels of flavonols in different black currant cultivars have been demonstrated showing the potential of plant breeding for taking advantage to develop special cultivars for high in health-promoting compounds in target populations.
Farming methods either growing organic or conventional means, did not found to have any
major influence on the phenolic contents in blackcurrants. With the help of molecular-marker techniques, introgression of defined genes or genome parts possessing health effects is a tool box of modern breeding for speeding up the breeding progress.

date: 2008
date_type: published
publication: Book of abstracts
publisher: COST-Action 863 Euroberry Research
pagerange: 28
refereed: never
citation: Karjalainen, Reijo; Stewart, Derek; McDougall, Gordon J.; Hilz, Hauke; Anttonen, Mikko; Saviranta, Niina; Mattila, Pirjo and Törrönen, Riitta (2008) Understanding health-promoting bioactive compounds in blackcurrants and their agronomic improvement. Workshop on Bioactive compounds in berry fruits: genetic control, breeding, cultivar, analytical aspects and human health, Zürich, Switzerland, 3rd - 5th December 2008. In: Book of abstracts, COST-Action 863 Euroberry Research, p. 28.
document_url: http://orgprints.org/15785/1/Reijok.doc