Publications

Hyttinen J, Räisänen R, Hauta-Kasari M. (2025) The BioColour Library Coloration Technology. 2025; 1-14

Kuusisaari, H., Campbell, M., & Autio, M. (2025) Home economics teachers’ endeavours to engage students in sustainability thinking through clothing and fashion: a transformational teaching approach Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research

Natália Oliveira de Farias, Marta Siviero Guilherme Pires, Bruna de Jesus Moreira, Amanda dos Santos, Harold Stanley Freeman, Peppi Pauliina Toukola, Anjaina Fernandes de Albuquerque, Riikka Räisänen, Gisela de Aragão Umbuzeiro (2025) Natural indigo toxicity for aquatic and terrestrial organisms Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 290

Kettunen, H., Poikolainen, J., Kouhia, A., & Autio, M. (2025) Crafting Sustainable Fashion: Dimensions of Care in Wearer-Clothing Relationships Fashion Theory, 1–26

Jetha, P., Mojzita, D., Maiorova, N. et al (2025) Discovery of Cortinarius O-methyltransferases for the heterologous production of dermolutein and physcion Biotechnol. Biofuels Bioprod. 18, 25 (2025)

Negi, A., Toukola, P. P., & Räisänen, R. (2025) Chemical profiling and characterisation of anthraquinone-based polyphenols as biocolourants from Cortinarius semisanguineus Coloration Technology, 1-34

Natália Oliveira de Farias, Marta Siviero Guilherme Pires, Bruna de Jesus Moreira, Amanda dos Santos, Harold Stanley Freeman, Peppi Toukola, Anjaina Fernandes de Albuquerque, Riikka Räisänen, Gisela de Aragão Umbuzeiro (2025) Natural indigo toxicity for aquatic and terrestrial organisms Volume 290, 2025, 117606, ISSN 0147-6513,

Yli-Öyrä, J., Juvonen, R., Lehtonen, M., Herrala, M., Finel, M., Räisänen, R. & Rysä, J., (2024) Anthraquinone biocolourant dermocybin is metabolized whereas dermorubin is not in in vitro liver fractions and recombinant metabolic enzymes Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology. 134, 6

Yli-Öyrä, J., Herrala, M., Kovakoski, H., Huuskonen, E., Toukola, P., Räisänen, R. & Rysä, J., kesäk. 2024 In Vitro Toxicity Assessment of Cortinarius sanguineus Anthraquinone Aglycone Extract Journal of fungi . 10, 6, 15

Räisänen, R., de Aragão Umbuzeiro, G., Niinimäki, K., Laaksonen, P. & Wähälä, K., maalisk. 2024 Sustainable value chain for colour – polyphenols as colourants and aiding chemicals Polyphenols Communications. 2, s. 278-278

Oliveira de Farias, N., Rocha Rodrigues, A., Tenório Botelho, M., Magalhães, G. R., Räisänen, R., Freeman, H. S. & de Aragão Umbuzeiro, G., 2024 The natural anthraquinone dye emodin: Eco/genotoxicological characterization for aquatic organisms Food and Chemical Toxicology. 189

Yli-Öyrä, J., Juvonen, R.O., Lehtonen, M., Herrala, M., Finel, M., Räisänen, R. & Rysä, J. (2024). Anthraquinone biocolourant dermocybin is metabolized whereas dermorubin is not in in vitro liver fractions and recombinant metabolic enzymes Basic Clin Pharmacol Toxicol. 2024; 1-12

Durrani, M. & Niinimäki, K. (2023) Color Matters: an exploratory study on the role of color on clothing consumption choices . . Clothing cultures, 8 (2) pp. 221–244.

Sadik, S. A., Toukola, P. P. & Räisänen, R., (2023) Zero waste nettle – process optimization to refine nettle (Urtica dioica) into multi-purpose materials: textile fibres and colourants Xxxi International Horticultural Congress, Ihc2022: International Symposium On Natural Colorants From Plants.

Freeman, H. S., Räisänen, R. & de Aragão Umbuzeiro, G., 2023 Waterless dyeing with plant-based natural dyes as colorants Acta Horticulturae

Huang, Y., Yang, C., Molnár, I., Chen, S. (2023) Comparative transcriptomic analysis of key genes involved in citrinin biosynthesis in Monascus purpureus J. Fungi, 9, 200, 2023

Räisänen, R., 2023 Natural Colorants from Lichens and Mushrooms Handbook of Natural Colorants. Bechtold, T., Manian, A. P. & Pham, T. (toim.). Second Edition toim. Wiley, s. 317-331

Magalhães, G. R., Militão, G. F. G., Farias, N. O. D., Albuquerque, A. F. D., Botelho, M. T., Räisänen, R., Freeman, H. S. & Umbuzeiro, G. D. A., 2023 Acryloyl Esters of Emodin for Waterless Dyeing and Toxicological Studies Coloration Technology

Farias, N.O., Albuquerque, A.F., Amanda dos Santos, A., Almeida, G.C.F., Freeman, H.,Riikka Räisänen, R., de Aragão Umbuzeiro, G. (2023) Is natural better? An ecotoxicity study of anthraquinone dyes Chemosphere Volume 343, December 2023, 140174

Ruippo, L. R., Kylkilahti, E., Sekki, S., & Autio, M. (2023) “It probably could’ve done with less plastic” – Consumers’ cyclical and uneasy relationship with food packaging Frontiers in sustainability, Sec. Sustainable Consumption, no 4.

Sekki, S., Kauppinen-Räisänen, M. H., Kylkilahti, E., & Autio, M. (2023) Packaging journey from retail to home: How the meaning of sustainability for colour transforms International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, 51(13), 47-63

Li, Z.-Y. ,Hyttinen, J., Räisänen, R., Gao, X.-Z., and Hauta-Kasari, M. (2023) Unsupervised Spectral Analysis of Bio-Dyed Textile Samples International Journal of Network Dynamics and Intelligence. 2023, 2(2), 100001

Grande R., Räisänen R., Dou J., Rajala S., Malinen K., Nousiainen P.A., and Österberg M. (2023) In Situ Adsorption of Red Onion (Allium cepa) Natural Dye on Cellulose Model Films and Fabrics Exploiting Chitosan as a Natural Mordant ACS Omega 2023, 8, 6, 5451–5463. Publication Date:January 31, 2023

de Aragão Umbuzeiro, G., Freeman, H. S. & Räisänen, R., (2022) Mutagenicity of dyes: a call to fill the knowledge gaps and improve our predictive ability Toxicology Letters. 368

Yli-Öyrä, J., Herrala, M., Juvonen, R., Lehtonen, M., Räisänen, R. & Rysä, J., (2022) Metabolism of two anthraquinone dyes obtained from Cortinarius sanguineus Toxicology Letters. 368

Herrala M, Yli-Öyrä J, de Albuquerque AF, de Farias NO, Morales DA, Räisänen R, Freeman HS, Umbuzeiro GA, Rysä J. (2022) Waterless Dyeing and In Vitro Toxicological Properties of Biocolorants from Cortinarius sanguineus Journal of Fungi. 2022; 8(11):1129

Niinimäki, K. (2022) Sustainable eco-luxury in the Scandinavian context In Henninger, C. & Athwal, N. (Eds.) Sustainable Luxury – An international perspective. Palgrave MacMillan, Springer Nature, pp. 35-57.

Dou, J., Ilina, P., Hemming, J., Malinen, K., Mäkkylä, H., Oliveira de Farias, N., Tammela, P., de Aragão Umbuzeiro, G., Räisänen, R. & Vuorinen, T. (2022). Effect of Hybrid Type and Harvesting Season on Phytochemistry and Antibacterial Activity of Extracted Metabolites from Salix Bark Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 70(9), 2948-2956

Suthar, M., Lagashetti, A. C., Räisänen, R., Singh, P. N., Dufossé, L., Robinson, S. C. & Singh, S. K., (2021) Industrial Application of Pigments from Macrofungi Advances in Macrofungi: Industrial Avenues and Prospects. Sridhar, K. R. & Deshmukh, S. K. (toim.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC press

Lagashetti, A. C., Räisänen, R., Robinson, S. C., Singh, S. K. & Dufossé, L., 2021 Colorful macrofungi and their pigment structures Advances in Macrofungi: Industrial Avenues and Prospects. Sridhar, K. R. & Deshmukh, S. K. (toim.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC press

Autio, M., Kortesalmi, M. M., Ranta, M., Sekki, S., & Kylkilahti, E. (2021). Finnish Home Economics Teachers Enabling Sustainability and Consumer Skills for Young People. Proceedings of the Canadian Symposium XVI Issues and Directions for Home Economics/Family Studies/ Human Ecology. Virtual Symposium. Hosted by the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Lauri, P. (2021) Perspectives to a Living Design Medium – First encounters with a fermented indigo vat. Ruukku, Research Catalogue.

Dou, J.; Rissanen, M.; Ilina, P.; Mäkkylä, H.; Tammela, P.; Haslinger, S. & Vuorinen, T. (2021) Separation of fiber bundles from willow bark using sodium bicarbonate and their novel use in yarns for superior UV protection and antibacterial performance Industrial Crops and Products, Volume 164.

Virta, L. & Räisänen, R. (2021) Three Futures Scenarios of Policy Instruments for Sustainable Textile Production and Consumption as Portrayed in the Finnish News Media Sustainability. 13(2): 16 p., 594.

Räisänen, R.; Montero, G. A., & Freeman, H. S. (2021) A fungal-based anthraquinone emodin for polylactide and polyethylene terephthalate in supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) dyeing Color Research and Application. 1–7.

Lohtander, T.; Arola S., Laaksonen P. (2020) Biomordanting of a natural dye from willow bark on cellulosic materials Coloration Technology 2020, 136 (1), 3-14.

Räisänen, R., Primetta, A., Nikunen, S., Honkalampi, U., Nygren, H., Pihlava, J-M., Vanden Berghe, I. & von Wright, A. (2020) Examining safety of biocolourants from fungal and plant sources – examples from Cortinarius and Tapinella, Salix and Tanacetum spp. and dyed woollen fabrics. Antibiotics 2020, 9(5), 266.