Edīte Kaufmane

•    Research leader and coordination.
•    Japanese quince breeding and agrotechnics.

Three apricot, five plum, and two Japanese quince cultivars have been registered.

• Apricot cultivars: 'Lāsma', 'Daiga', 'Velta'

• Plum cultivars: Domestic plums 'Minjona', 'Zemgale', 'Adelyn', 'Sonora', 'Ance'

• Japanese quince cultivars: ‘Rondo’, ‘Darius’

• In registration process: 

  • Plum cultivars: ‘Laine’, ‘Zane’,

  • Japanese quince cultivars: ‘Jānis’, ‘Silvija’, ‘Ada’

Publications:

75 scientific articles (incl. Scopus / WoS indexed – 46, H-index - 12) - ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-4115.

The five major publications:

• Kaufmane E., Gravite I., Ikase L., 2019. Plum research and growing. Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Section B, Vol. the 73, Issue 3 (720), pp. 195-206. https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/prolas/73/3/article-p195.xml 

• Kaufmane E., Ruisa S., 2020. Breeding of new cultivars of the fruit crop Japanese quince (Chaenomeles japonica) in Latvia. Acta Horticulturae, 1281, pp. 51-57. 10.17660/ActaHortic.2020.1281.9

• Mišina I., Sipeniece E., Grygier A., Qian Y., Rudzińska M., Kaufmane E., Segliņa D., Siger A., Gornas P., 2021. Impact of the harvest year of three cultivars of Japanese quince (Chaenomeles japonica) on the oil content and its composition. Scientia Horticulturae, 275.3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2020.109683.

• Kaufmane E., Edelmers E., Sudars K., Namatevs I., Nikulins A., Strautina S., Kalnina I., Peter A., 2023. Three-Dimensional Imaging in Agriculture: Challenges and Advancements in the Phenotyping of Japanese Quinces in Latvia. MDPI Horticulturae, 9(12), 1347. pp. 1-16. https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/9/12/1347 

• Lācis G., Kārkliņa K., Bartulsons T., Kaufmane E., 2024. Intergeneric Transfer of Simple Sequence Repeat Molecular Markers for the Study of Chaenomeles as Fruit Crop Breeding Material. MDPI Horticulturae, 10, 1233. https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10111233 

Books and monographs (11), the most important:

• Kārkliņš J., Skrīvele M., Kaufmane E., Ikase L., 2007. Plum cultivars. Pomology of Latvia. Reneprint, Rīga (in Latvian), 204 pp.
• Ruisa S., Kaufmane E., 2008. Cultivars of cherries, apricots and peaches. Pomology of Latvia. Rīga. Latvia State Institute of Fruit-Growing, Dobele (in Latvian). 206 pp.
• Skrīvele M., Rubauskis E., Strautiņa S., Ruisa S., Ikase L., Kaufmane E., Berlands V., Lāce B., Grāvīte I., Feldmane D., Surikova V., Apenīte I., Rancāne R., Vilka L., Moročko-Bičevska I., Stalažs A., Kviklys D., Uselis N. 2012. Guide in commercial fruit growing. Latvia State Institute of Fruit-Growing, Dobele (in Latvian). 188 pp.
• Fruit growing. 2015. Latvia State Institute of Fruit-Growing (ed. L. Ikase, co-author - E. Kaufmane), Dobele (in Latvian), 545 pp.
• Pilvere I. (ed.), E. Kaufmane (co-author). 2021. Restructuring of local agricultural and food supply chains and strengthening of resilience in crisis and post-crisis conditions in Latvia. Jelgava, LLU, (in Latvian- Summary in English), 464 p.