This documentary film is about the international research and innovation project BACHBERRY that searched for valuable substances in plants, particularly berries, that could be beneficial for health and other useful applications. In the film we travel to the experimental Vavilov research stationing Russia, visit the biochemical analysts at the Hutton Institute in Scotland, compare color pigments in Montpellier, France, and talk to the researchers in Lisbon, Portugal who test plant extracts on so-called "humanized yeast". The film gives a clear idea why the discovery of useful substances and their genes is so important for human health and the bioeconomy and how these genes could be used to make these hardly available substances in larger quantities with the help of engineered microorganisms.
(BACHBERRY was funded by grant 613793 from the FP7 European Commission program.)
