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...
Metals in plants - this is the issue that will be jointly tackled by experts from one hundred and ten laboratories from 30 European countries. A new project "TRACE METAL METABOLISM IN PLANTS (PLANTMETALS)" was launched in October, bringing together biologists, (bio)physicists, (bio-geo)chemists, molecular geneticists, ecologists, agronomists and soil scientists to produce not only new insights...
Nuclear genome size, corresponding to the total length of DNA molecules in cell nuclei, varies more than 2,000-fold between different plant species. The genome size is not proportional to the number of genes, complexity, or size of the plant species. For example, the genome of the oak tree is surprisingly 65-fold smaller than the genome of some herbs like Paris quadrifolia (Figure). This herb...
On Monday, May 11th, the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences has opened a new laboratory adapted for testing clinical samples for coronavirus. The current testing capacity of the Biology Centre, which was one hundred analyses per day since March 23, has now increased to 150 tests per day. If necessary, the total capacity of the Biology centre can be extended up to 200 samples...
Whenever the European dodder, Cuscuta europaea, is under scientific scrutiny, it usually is due to its non-functional chloroplasts and its concomitant parasitic lifestyle. Scientists from the Czech Republic and Germany have now discovered another curiosity of this plant parasite. The chromosome areas responsible for proper segregation of genetic material during the division of the cell differ...
We have already wished you in Czech and English language, however, we would like to add few words now also in genetic code as it is the field of our research, too.
International team including the scientist from Czech Republic has assembled – after six years of research – the first complete genome of field pea. The results has been published on 2nd September in the prestigious journal Nature Genetics.
On May 21-23, the 46 scientists (31 abroad) participated on 8th RepeatExplorer workshop on the " Application of Next Generation Sequencing to Repetitive DNA Analysis " in the Institute of Plant Molecular Biology - Biology centre CAS. The scientists from z Czech republic, Germany, Austria, Spain, Croatia, UK, Canada, South Korea, China and Brasil were trained in...
Almost each cell of single animal or a plant contains the same DNA. However, there is a wide variety of cells with different shapes or functions. How is it brought about? What is it that enabled single-celled ancestral organisms to evolve into complex species composed from hundreds of different cell types? Similar questions will be the subject of the research by Iva Mozgová from Institute of...
Every three years, the Czech Society of Experimental Plant Biology and Plant Physiology section of the Slovak Botanical Society jointly organize meetings, which are hosted by alternating Czech and Slovak university cities. The next conference (titled Plant Biology CS, 2019) will take place in České Budějovice (at the joint campus of the University of South Bohemia and Biology Centre of the...
