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...
The Czech Science Foundation (GACR) appreciated the extraordinary scientific results targeting plant centromeres, obtained by the Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics under the leadership of Jiří Macas.
For the ninth time, scientists from all over the world will practicise to analyze repetitive DNA sequences from the Next generation sequencing. How to do that in the RepeatExplorer program will be tought by the staff of the Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics from the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology - Biological Centre of the CAS, who developed the mentioned program and the...
Ahamed Khan and Mingxi Zhou are two postdoctoral researchers who succeeded with their project proposals in a competitive European call for MSCA Individual Fellowship. A total of 11,573 proposals were submitted in response to the call H2020-MSCA-IF-2020. Only 21 MSCA fellowships were awarded to the Czech Republic, two of them go to the Biology Centre CAS.
Each cell produces during metabolic processes various by-products, including molecules possessing reactive oxygen (so called “reactive oxygen species”, ROS). Such a molecules react very readily with almost everything, what can be dangerous situation for cells. Therefore, the cells not only developed the way how to mitigate potential risk, but they also started to use ROS in their favor. They...
Plant viruses can spread over long distance by different ways. In the modern history, their expansion was driven mainly by human when trading with plants and their fruits. That has been recently documented by the international team of scientists in the case of plant virus, which is an important pathogen of various agricultural plants worldwide. The rise of this virus began in 17th century on...
How do plant cells communicate, sense information from the environment and coordinate between different parts of the plant? How is this communication orchestrated? These are some of questions which will be answered by newly established laboratory of “Plant Molecular Signaling” led by Michael Wrzaczek, who joined the team of the Institute of Plant Molecular Biology - Biology Centre CAS at the...
Plant virologists from the Institute of Plant Molecular Biology - Biology centre CAS have started to participate on the new program " Virology and antiviral strategy " which is part of Strategy AV21 targeting " Top research in the public interest “. Together with their colleagues from the Institute of Parasitology - Biology centre CAS, and with three other...
More medical substances and bitter acids in hop – that is the aim, the scientists from the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences (BC CAS) would like to achieve. They reported the first successful modification of hop using the latest CRISPR genetic technology, which allows very precise targeting of a selected gene. As a first success, the technique was tested on a gene influencing the...
RepeatExplorer is a computational pipeline designed to identify and quantify repetitive sequences in eukaryotic genomes. The pipeline was developed by scientists from the Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics of the Biology Centre seven years ago, and since then it has become widely adopted for repetitive DNA analysis in plant and animal genomes. Its new version, featuring several major...
