Ribes
Ribes is a diverse genus of ca. 150 spp. of shrubs, distributed mainly in the northern temperate regions of Europe and North America. The genus includes the blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum L.), gooseberry (R. grossularia L.) and redcurrant (R. sativum and R. rubrum). Production of blackcurrant in the UK is largely for juice production, although there is a growing interest in the fresh crop due to the perceived health benefits of the fruit. The James Hutton Institute has active commercial breeding programmes for blackcurrant, through James Hutton Ltd, and has produced the highly successful 'Ben' series of cultivars.
Work on Ribes at the Institute is focused on the development of enhanced germplasm using contemporary genetics techniques including marker-assisted breeding. Traits of interest include fruit quality, pest resistance and environmental adaptability.
Research
- Science Departments
- Cell and Molecular Sciences
- Phytophthora infestans research
- Potato Cyst Nematodes
- Virus research
- Rhynchosporium on barley
- Bacterial Plant Pathogens
- Human and animal pathogens on plants
- Epidemiology and population biology
- Aphid-Plant Interactions
- Dundee Effector Consortium
- Integrated pest management
- Imaging Technologies
- Cereal genetics
- Potato genetics
- Soft fruit genetics, genomics and phenomics
- Abiotic stress research
- Staff and Students
- Alternative splicing and stress
- Ecological Sciences
- Environmental and Biochemical Sciences
- Natural products and food chemistry
- Environmental monitoring
- Automatic Weather Station - Invercauld
- Automatic Weather Station - Sourhope Farm
- Monitoring Data - Lunan
- Monitoring Data - Tarland Burn, Aboyne
- Monitoring Data - Tarland Burn, Coull
- Monitoring Data - Tarland Burn, Netherton
- Monitoring Data - Tarland Burn, Tarland Village
- Monitoring Data - Yetholm Mains, Bowmont Water
- Soil chemistry and mineralogy
- Biochemistry and hydrology
- Soil physics and characterisation
- Environmental Chemistry
- Isotope applications
- Analysis equipment
- Field sites and research platforms
- Environmental and Biochemical Sciences Staff
- Information and Computational Sciences
- Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences
- Cell and Molecular Sciences
- Research Facilities
- International
- Postgraduate study
- Research Partners
Areas of Interest
- Areas of Interest
- Centre for Human and Animal Pathogens in the Environment
- New Zealand Flatworm
- Water and food security
- National waters inventory Scotland
- Nutrient cycles
- Future scenarios for water resources
- Ecosystem services approaches
- Exploring ways for the application of ecosystem services approaches at the catchment level
- UNESCO Global Dialogue book
- Cost-effectiveness, disproportionality analysis and multiple benefits of the EU Water Framework Directive
- Payment for water ecosystem services
- Assessing and valuing peatland ecosystem services for sustainable management
- Valuing the impacts of ecosystem service interactions for policy effectiveness
- Water Futures: Towards Equitable Resource Management Strategies
- Water resource monitoring
- Global Change - the local context
- Coastal Research and Consultancy
- Farmer led phosphorus sampling
- Hydropower resources research
- Improving water quality in Scotland
- URflood
- Septic tank system for on-site wastewater treatment
- Scenarios and land use futures
- Scottish Rivers Handbook
- Land manager attitudes and behaviours
- Soil forensics
- Realising Land's Potential stakeholder engagement events
- Community-based Management of Environmental challenges in Latin America
- OrkCEmP: Exploring ideas about Community in Orkney
- Vibrant Rural Communities workshop
- Biodiversity
- Land
- People
- Ecosystem services
- Research outputs
- Improving the plant
- Optimising soil conditions
- Root-soil interactions
- Soil diversity
- Integrated pest management
- Soil science