Sarmīte Rancāne Academic position Assistant professor / Leading researcher PhD Field of research 4. Development and adaptation of technologies for obtaining high-value agricultural and forest products, as well as in veterinary medicine E-mail sarmite.rancane@lbtu.lv Telephone +37126484676 Obtained Doctor of Science (Ph.D) degree in 2021 in Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Sciences at the Latvia University of Life sciences and Technologies. Topic of doctoral thesis "Plant nutrient recycling in energy grass plantations". Leading researcher at LBTU from 2022. Associate professor (Docent) at LBTU from 2022. Long-term (since 1995) experience in research management. Main directions of research activities: perennial grasses and forage legumes breeding and seed production; maintenance of grass and legume genetic resources; investigations in agroforestry. She is the author or co-author of 25 peer-reviewed publications indexed in SCOPUS, with an h-index of 6. The most important projects (2019-2025) The evaluation of pre-breeding material of perennial ryegrass – PPP for Lolium perenne L., 2019 , project leader The most important publications (2019-2025) G. Putniece, S. Rancāne , (2023), Biomass of alternative species for traditional cereal crops in Latvia and their potential impact on the carbon cycle, Zemdirbyste-Agriculture, ISSN 1392-3196 S. Rancāne , (2023), Carbon and nitrogen uptake in above- and below-ground biomass of cereal crops in the integrated farming system, Agronomy Research, ISSN 1406-894X S. Rancāne , (2021), Assessment of Lolium perenne tetraploid clones produced from a diverse diploid breeding population = Lolium perenne tetraploidinių klonų, sukurtų iš skirtingos diploidinės selekcinės populiacijos, įvertinimas, Zemdirbyste-Agriculture, ISSN 1392-3196 S. Rancāne , (2019), Genetic and agronomic analysis of Latvian fescue (Festuca spp.), ryegrass (Lolium spp.) accessions and their hybrids = Latvijā izveidoto auzeņu (festuca spp.), aireņu (lolium spp.) perspektīvo škirņu un to hibrīdu ģenētiskā un agronomiskā analīze, Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Section B. Natural, Exact and Applied Sciences, ISSN 1407-009X
