Dalija Segliņa

• Testing of cultivar suitability for various processing methods
• New product and technology development
• Possibilities of using fruit and vegetable by-products (press cake, leaves, shoots, etc.) to develop innovative products

The 5 major scientific publications:

1. Juhnevica-Radenkova, K.; Krasnova, I.; Seglina, D.; Kaufmane, E.; Gravite, I.; Valdovska, A.; Radenkovs, V. Biochemical Profile and Antioxidant Activity of Dried Fruit Produced from Apricot Cultivars Grown in Latvia. Horticulturae 2024, 10, 205. https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10030205 
2. Górnaś, P., Lazdiņa, D., Mišina, I., Sipeniece, E., Segliņa, D. (2024). Cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon Aiton) seeds: An exceptional source of tocotrienols. Scientia Horticulturae, 331, 113107, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2024.113107
3. Mišina, I., Sipeniece, E., Grygier, A., Qian, Y., Rudzińska, M., Kaufmane, E., Segliņa, D., Siger, A., Górnaś, P. (2022) Profiling of the lipophilic components of seed oils recovered from twelve Japanese quince (Chaenomeles japonica) genotypes. Natural Product Research, 36, 474–478. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14786419.2020.1782407
4. Segliņa, D., Krasnova, I., Grygier, A., Radziejewska-Kubzdela, E. Rudzińska, M., Górnaś, P. (2021) Unique bioactive molecule composition of sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.) oils obtained from the peel, pulp, and seeds via physical “solvent-free” approaches. Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, 98(10), pp. 1009–1020. https://doi.org/10.1002/aocs.12524
5. Górnaś, P., Siger, A., Rudzińska, M., Grygier, A., Marszałkiewicz, S., Ying, Q., Sobieszczańska, N., Segliņa, D. (2019). Impact of the Extraction Technique and Genotype on the Oil Yield and Composition of Lipophilic Compounds in the Oil Recovered from Japanese Quince (Chaenomeles japonica) Seeds. European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology, 121, 1800262. DOI: 10.1002/ejlt.201800262

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ejlt.201800262

Research projects (last three years):

1. Latvian Council of Science, No: lzp-2021/1-0651, Genus Hypericum as a new valuable source of tocotrienols and tocochromanol-related molecules – from ornamental crop to industrial applications (2021-2024) (head of project).
2. INTERREG Baltic See Region programme 2021-2027: Project No. C036, Integrated system for interactive public garden development in Baltic Sea Region (Interactive Gardens) (2023-2026) (executor).
3. National Research program “Horticultural crop breeding program”, No: 10.9.1-11/24/1543-e (2024) (executor).
4. Iceland Liechtenstein Norway project, No: EEA-RESEARCH-170-RC, INnovative TEchnologies for REcovery of valuable compounds from agri-food and seafood side STreams for food applications (INTEREST) (2023-2024) (project manager).
5. Latvian Council of Science, No: lzp-2020/1-0422, Dicotyledonous plant families and green tools as a promising alternative approach to increase the accessibility of tocotrienols from unconventional sources (2020-2023) (head of activity).
6. ERDF project, No: 1.1.1.1/16/A/094, Environment-friendly cultivation of emerging commercial fruit crop – Japanese quince (Chaenomeles japonica) and waste-free methods of its processing (2017-2020) (head of activity).
7. Production of biodegradable polymers from renewable sources for the development of edible coatings and packaging materials for fruits. No.19-00-A01612-000004 (2019-2022) (executor).