Sarmīte Strautiņa

•    Raspberry and black currant breeding.
•    Raspberry and berry cultivar testing.
•    Research on raspberry and berry cultivation technologies.
•    The genetic resource assessment and description of berry cultures, collection creation and maintenance.
•    Lilac cultivar testing.

Major publications (5):

Strautina S., 1991. Evaluation of raspberry breeding material for Latvia.- Doctor’s thesis, Samohvalovitschi, -20 p. (in Russian)

• Strautina S., Lacis G., 2000. Small fruit breeding in Latvia.- Proceedings of the Eucarpia symposium on Fruit Breeding and Genetics, Vol 2, Dresden, Germany, pp.469-472.
• Strautina S., Kampuss K., 2002. Research of Latvian Ribes Genetic Resources.- Proceedings of the Eight International Rubus and Ribes Symposium, Vol 1, Dundee, Scotland, pp.171-176.
• Kampuss K., Strautina S., Laugale V., 2009. Influence of climate change on berry crop growing in Latvia. ISHS Acta Horticulturae, 838, 45-49.
• Strautina, S., I. Krasnova, I. Kalnina, A. Sasnauskas, V. Trajkovski, O. Tikhonova. 2012.  Results of the common international breeding program for blackcurrant. Acta Hort. (ISHS) 926:53-58
• Strautina, S., Kasnova , I., Kalnina, I. and Laugale, V. 2012. Evaluation of red and white currant cultivars in Latvia. Acta Horticulturae, 946:183-188.
• Strautina, S., Krasnova, I., Kalnina, I. and Kampuss, K. 2012. Results of red raspberry breeding in Latvia. Horticulturae; 946:171-176, DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2012.946.26