Biology Centre: Research on molecular organisation of plants and their pathogens, induction and analysis of targeted changes in genome and plastome and study of photosynthesis processes and heritability in interaction with environment and pathogens

Biology Centre of the ASCR, v.v.i.
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Research on molecular organisation of plants and their pathogens, induction and analysis of targeted changes in genome and plastome and study of photosynthesis processes and heritability in interaction with environment and pathogens

1) Molecular organization of plant genomes and chromosomes and mechanisms of gene expression: sequencing repetitive DNA of legume genomes; genetic and physical mapping; functional genomics, transgenosis and molecular biodiversity of flax, hop, Arabidopsis; analysing structure and function of chimeric cellular RNAs, aberrant RNAs and dsRNAs in relation to gene expression; genome and plastome transformation for nuclear gene expression, photosystem II function and foreign proteins production, 2) Molecular plant–pathogen interactions: genomic variability, structural and functional features of viruses, viroids and phytoplasmas; mechanisms of gene silencing and antisensing; development high–throughput detection of pathogens, 3) Photosynthesis research: primary processes of light energy transformation into energy of chemical bonds; structure and function of the reaction centre complex of photosystem II; gas exchange and carbon dioxide fixation effects on regulation of photosynthesis.