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Plants as sesile organisms are exposed to many adverse environmental effects, either abiotic such as high temperature, drought, osmotic stress, salinity or biotic caused by pathogenic microorganisms, herbivores etc. Plants can adapt to many of these external cues as they evolved complex mechanisms by which they are capable to respond to unfavorable conditions.
Our laboratory is interested in topics related to the response of plants to various stress factors, focusing primarily on the role of various proteins in stress responses. We are studying plant stress response taking place both at the level of the whole plant and at the level of the cell.
As a model organism, we use Arabidopsis thaliana and oilseed rape (Brassica napus). We use modern biochemical, microscopic and molecular biological techniques to solve our projects.
Collaboration
- Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences: Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences (doc. Ing. Lenkou Burketová, CSc.)
- Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences: Laboratory of Signal Transduction ( RNDr. Jan Martinec, CSc.)
- Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences: Laboratory of Hormonal Regulations in Plants (vedená RNDr. Janem Petráškem, Ph.D.)
- Department of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia
- Dr. Eric Ruelland CNRS, Institut d’Ecologie et des Sciences de l’Environnement de Paris, UMR 7618, Créteil, FRANCE; Université Paris-Est; UPEC, Institut d’Ecologie et des Sciences de l’Environnement de Paris, Créteil, FRANCE