Iva Mozgová's research group at the Institute of Plant Molecular Biology is now hosting four postdoctoral fellows funded by the MSCA postdoctoral fellowship programme. Ahamed Khan and Mingxi Zhou have been MSCA fellows since April 2021. In January 2023, they were joined by the ERA Fellow Rafał Krela (MSCA postdoctoral fellowship for widening countries) and Fatemeh Aflaki with an MSCA-CZ...
Renowned plant biologist Jiří Friml presented his latest findings on the role of the plant hormone auxin in plant life in his welcome lecture at the Biology Centre CAS (BC). Jiří Friml is a leading figure of the project MOLIPEC: Molecular Life of Plants ERA Chair that started at BC at the beginning of January 2023. Thanks to the MOLIPEC project, the ERA Chair in plant molecular biology funded...
As part of a joint project , researchers from the Czech Republic and Norway are not only looking for new strawberry and raspberry viruses. They are also screening the existing ones, identifying their vectors and developing methods by which it would be possible to obtain and preserve healthy, virus-free seedlings for future generations. These days, Norwegian investigators visited their Czech...
A research centre of excellence focused on the molecular life of plants will be established at the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Thanks to a European grant in the ERA Chair program, the Biology Centre will establish two new research groups in plant molecular biology, strengthen plant research and appoint a six-member International advisory board led by the renowned plant...
An international team including scientists from the Biology Centre in České Budějovice and Institute of Experimental Botany in Olomouc provided the first comprehensive insight into the genome architecture of plants with holocentric chromosomes. Their results were published in the prestigious journal Cell.
In June 2022, the team of the Laboratory of Molecular Signaling has received new member: Dr. Francisco J. Colina from Spain. For his research in the Czech Republic, Dr. Colina received a prestigious EMBO fellowship, intended for excellent young researchers from Europe and around the world. For two years, Dr. Colina will investigate how plants adapt their development to the environment and stress.
On May 24 th - 26 th , the tenth year of a scientific workshop was held at the Biological Centre CAS dealing with practical issues and approaches to the analysis of repetitive sequences in plant and animal genomes. It was specifically focused on the RepeatExplorer program , developed in previous years by the team of Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics to analyze such parts of...
For plants, the only source of energy for all life functions is the light of our Sun. Transformation of light into a form usable by plants is ensured by the so-called light-harvesting complexes within plant chloroplasts. However, if there is too much light, these complexes could be damaged. Scientific teams from the Centre Algatech in Třeboň, the Faculty of Science of the University of South...
Which viruses are harmful to strawberries and raspberries? What are the ways to protect the plants, and how can healthy seedlings be grown and kept? These are some of the questions the scientists and growers from the Czech Republic and Norway have set out to answer. The results of a three-year international project, coordinated by virologists from the Biology Centre CAS, will not only help...
One hundred and seventy-one experts from 36 countries are involved in the international network of researchers "Metabolism of trace metals in plants" PLANTMETALS, which focuses on metals in plants and is funded by the European COST program (CA19116, www.plantmetals.eu). These days, from 24 to 27 August 2021, the project members were meeting for the first time at the joint introductory...
