International collaboration:

• Professor Avi Golan-Goldhirsh, Albert Katz Department of Dryland Biotechnologies, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,Israel

• Professor Peter Schroeder, Department of Microbe Plant Interactions, GSF- National Research Center for Environment & Health, Neuherberg, Germany

• Associated Professor Jing Song, Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, P.R. CHINA

• Dr. Jean-Paul Schwitzguebel, Laboratory for Environmental Biotechnology (LBE), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, SwitzerlandDr. André Gerth, BioPlanta GmbH, Leipzig, Germany

• Professor Martin Mihaljeviè, Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Mineral Resources, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague , Czech Republic

• Associated Professor Stanislav Smrèek, Department of organic and nuclear chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

• Associated Professor Vladimir Koci, Department of Environmental Chemistry, ICT Prague, Czech Republic

• Associated Professor Zdenìk Kafka, Department of Environmental Chemistry, ICT Prague, Czech Republic

• Dr. Jana Punèocháøová, Department of Environmental Chemistry, ICT Prague, Czech Republic

• Dr. Miroslav Griga, Department of Plant Biotechnology, Agritec Ltd., Šumperk, Czech Republic

• Dr. Jana Malá, Department of Biology and Breeding, The Forestry and Game Management Research Institute, Jílovištì - Strnady, Czech republic

• Dr. Jaroslava Ovesná, Department of Molecular Biology, Crop Research Institute, Prague, Czech Republic

• Dr. Petr Petøík, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic