Līga Lepse

- Sustainable growing technologies in horticulture, vegetable genetic resources;
- Micro-clonal propagation of horticultural crops.
Major scientific publications:
- Lepse, L., Zeipiņa, S. and Gailīte, M. (2025). Do higher fertilization doses guarantee higher vegetable yield? Acta Hortic. 1416, 157-164.
- Carrillo-Reche J., T. Le Noc, D. F. van Apeldoorn, S. D. Juventia, A. Westhoek, S. Shanmugam, H. L. Kristensen, M. Hondebrink, S. J. Himanen, P. Kivijärvi, L. Lepse, S. Dane, W.A.H. Rossing. (2023). Finding guidelines for cabbage intercropping systems design as a first step in a meta-analysis relay for vegetables. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Volume 354, 108564
- Lepse L., Zeipiņa S., (2023). Increasing the sustainability of vegetable crops production by using intercropping. Agronomy Research, Vol. 21, Issue 2, 494 – 503
- Zeipiņa, S.; Vågen, I.M.; Lepse, L. (2022). Possibility of Vegetable Soybean Cultivation in North Europe. Horticulturae, 8, 593.
- Lepse L., S. Zeipiņa, I. Missa and A. Osvalde (2021). The effect of cultivation technology on the plant development of organically grown garlic. Agronomy Research. - Vol. 19(4) (2021), 1823.-1829
- Lepse L., Ingunn M. Vågen, Solvita Zeipina, Torfinn Torp, Margit Olle, Eduardo Rosa, and Raul Domínguez-Perles. (2021). Influence of Baltic Agro-Environmental Conditions on Yield and Quality of Fava Bean Crops in Conventional Systems. Agriculture 11, No. 11: 1042.
- Ruņǵis, D., Leino, M.W., Lepse, L. et al. (2020). Genetic characterization of European potato onion (Allium cepa var Aggregatum G. Don) collections. Genet Resour Crop Evol.
- Osvalde, A., Karlsons, A., Cekstere, G., Lepse, L. (2020). The effect of cultivation technologies on the mineral nutrition status of organically grown garlic. Conference Proceedings of 20th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2020, August 16-25, vol.20, Book No 3.1., 573-580.
- Navarro-Miró, D., Blanco-Moreno J. M., Ciaccia C., Chamorro L., Testani E., Lakkenborg Kristensen H., Hefner M., Tamm K., Bender I., Jakop M., Bavec M., H. Védie, L. Lepse, S. Canali, F. Xavier Sans, (2019). Agroecological service crops managed with roller crimper reduce weed density and weed species richness in organic vegetable systems across Europe. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 39 - 55.
- G. Bodner, A. Kronberga, L. Lepse, M. Olle, I.M. Vågen, L. Rabante, J.A. Fernández,G. Ntatsi, A. Balliu, B. Rewald, (2018). Trait identification of faba bean ideotypes for Northern European environments. European Journal of Agronomy 96 (2018) 1–12
- Karkanis A., Georgia Ntatsi, Liga Lepse, Juan A. Fernández, Ingunn M. Vågen, Boris Rewald, Ina Alsiņa, Arta Kronberga, Astrit Balliu, Margit Olle, Gernot Bodner, Laila Dubova, Eduardo Rosa and Dimitrios Savvas, (2018). Faba Bean Cultivation – Revealing Novel Managing Practices for More Sustainable and Competitive European Cropping Systems Front. Plant Sci.
Major popular science publications (in Latvian):
Lepse, Līga. Kas vieno kompostu un šokolādi? Bioloģiski. - Nr.2 (2025), 32.-33.lpp.
Lepse, Līga. Bio dārzeņu sēklas - ģenētiski spēcīgas un veselīgas. Bioloģiski. - Nr.1 (2025), 36.-37.lpp.
Lepse, Līga. Senās dārzeņu šķirnes. Kāpēc labas? Mans Dārzs. - Nr.2 (158) (2025), 45.-49.lpp.
Lepse, Līga. Dārzeņu selekcija Latvijā senāk un tagad - kāpēc tā nepieciešama? Bioloģiski. - Nr.6 (2024), 38.-39.lpp.
Lepse, Līga. Sīpolu mēslošanas efektivitāte Profesionālā Dārzkopība. - Nr. 1(20) (2024), 30.-33.lpp.
Lepse, Līga. 2024. gada permakultūras skices. Bioloģiski. - Nr.5 (2024), 37.-39.lpp.
Lepse, Līga. Ziemas ķiploku audzēšana "pa vecam" un "pa jaunam". Bioloģiski. - Nr.4 (2024), 32.-33.lpp.
Lepse, Līga. Lokālpatriotiskie ģimenes sīpoli. Bioloģiski. - Nr.3 (2024), 36.-37.lpp.