The Systematics, Reproductive Biology, Biochemistry, and Breeding of Sea Buckthorn-A Review.

ABSTRACT: Both the fruit flesh and seeds of sea buckthorn have multiple uses for medicinal and culinary purposes, including the valuable market for supplementary health foods. Bioactive compounds, such as essential amino acids, vitamins B, C, and E, carotenoids, polyphenols, ursolic acid, unsaturated fatty acids, and other active substances, are now being analyzed in detail for their medicinal properties. Domestication with commercial orchards and processing plants is undertaken in many countries, but there is a large need for improved plant material with high yield, tolerance to environmental stress, diseases, and pests, suitability for efficient harvesting methods, and high contents of compounds that have medicinal and/or culinary values. Applied breeding is based mainly on directed crosses betwee

SUBMITTER: Nybom H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10743242 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature