"The research has been performed in an interdisciplinary environment with plant science, chemistry and industrial biotechnology working shoulder to shoulder with social and economic researchers and industrialists"

As the world’s population tries to adapt to climate change, many industries are still heavily reliant on fossil fuel resources to make components in the pharmaceutical, food, cosmetics and other sectors – but the plant kingdom, and particularly berry crops, may hold the key to breaking this dependence.

Over the past four years, the BacHBERRY project has investigated the sustainable use of diverse and complex natural molecules derived from berries for applications as diverse as bioactivity against type 2 diabetes, cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

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This article was originally posted by The James Hutton Institute