Heavy metals in plants, living organisms and in the environment. This currently highly topical research will be performed by top-ranking German scientist Hendrik Küpper and his team at the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences (BC CAS) in Ceske Budejovice. After two years under limited financial conditions, professor Küpper now won a generous grant in the amount of CZK 131.7 million...
The Department of Plant Biophysics and Biochemistry searches candidates for 1 scientist (PhD) with at least 2 years post-doctoral experience. The scientist will pursue research on metal(loid)s in plants and other photosynthetic organisms in terms of biochemistry and biophysics of micronutrient nutrition, toxicity and detoxification. Research will be on the organismic, cell/tissue and...
...Even if they look like. The proof is presented in a new publication of chinese colleagues and dr. Vlasák. Based on extensive screening of morphological features and genetic data, they reorganised fundamentally the taxonomy of brown-rot fungi (polypore fungi), established 6 new genera, and discovered 4 new species of them. Complete description of species, including the identification key,...
Arsenic is highly toxic not only for plants, but also for animals including humans. It naturally occurs in soil in non-lethal concentrations ranging from 0.01 to 3 micromols per litre. However, when its concentration increases to 5 micromols per litre the situation becomes to be serious. The increase can be caused by both human activities (mining, etc.) or natural processes (erosion, floods,...
On May 24-26, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology BC CAS organizes the workshop focusing on theoretical and practical aspects of using next generation sequencing (NGS) data for analyzing repeat composition of plant genomes.
The Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently concluded the most detailed and demanding evaluation of the the Biology Centre’s (BC) research and professional activities. International evaluators checked the results of 19 teams from BC for the years 2010 to 2014. The result? All teams have succeeded and six of these are rated excellent, world-class teams.
Dr. Šantrůček (Photosynthesis department) has been established as professor at the University of South Bohemia.
Dr. Igor Koloniuk and his team of researchers of the virology department, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology BC, managed to get a new project COST 2015-2017 "Implementation of NGS in plant virology – unprecedented capacity with a risk of data overflow" . The project is focused on application of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) in the field of plant virology....
Southbohemian researchers from Czech Academy of Sciences and Southbohemian university published their results in highly respected periodical Nature Chemical Biology. The article named „Mechanism of photoprotection in the cyanobacterial ancestor of plant antenna proteins" describes molecular mechanism for protection of photosynthetic organisms against excessive light. Among authors of the...
